Winnie Holzman is an American playwright, screenwriter, actress, and producer.
19 Facts About Winnie Holzman
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Winnie Holzman is best known for writing the book of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Wicked, and for co-writing the screenplays for the two films based on the musical, Wicked and Wicked: For Good.
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Winnie Holzman was born in Manhattan, New York, but grew up in Roslyn Heights, New York, on Long Island in a Jewish family.
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Winnie Holzman graduated with a degree in English and a concentration in Creative Writing at Princeton University.
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Winnie Holzman won many poetry awards, including the Academy of American Poets Prize.
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Winnie Holzman had been performing in sketch comedy for years, "determined to never make a dime," but on the recommendation of a college friend, she applied to attend the musical theater program at New York University.
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Winnie Holzman eventually got her master's degree in Musical Theatre Writing on a full scholarship.
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Winnie Holzman contributed scenes to the 1983 satirical musical comedy revue Serious Bizness, which ran at O'Neils Upstairs cabaret in New York City.
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Winnie Holzman has written several plays with her husband, actor Paul Dooley.
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Winnie Holzman made her Broadway debut in 2003 when she wrote the book for the Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire.
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Winnie Holzman won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
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Winnie Holzman wrote nine episodes during its last two seasons.
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Winnie Holzman went from story editor to executive story editor to a creator and writer of the show.
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Winnie Holzman has collaborated on various short films with her daughter, Savannah.
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From 2014 to 2016, Winnie Holzman was one of the producers and writers of the Showtime series Roadies, a behind-the-scenes comedy about people working with a touring rock band, created by Cameron Crowe, JJ Abrams, and Winnie Holzman, that ran for a season.
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Winnie Holzman wrote the screenplay for the Universal Pictures film adaptation of Wicked.
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Winnie Holzman has had a number of acting spots, primarily roles in her own plays with her husband, and cameo roles on her own TV shows.
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Winnie Holzman played the chocolate-obsessed divorced woman in the movie Jerry Maguire and Larry David's wife's therapist on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Winnie Holzman has been married to character actor Paul Dooley, whom she met at an improv acting class in New York, since 1984.