Jane Anderson
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| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, actress |
| Years active | 1982–present |
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Jane Anderson is an American playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and actress. She wrote and directed the feature film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005), and wrote the film It Could Happen to You (1994), starring Nicolas Cage. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her work on the miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014).
Career
Jane Anderson got her start as an actress, before getting her first writing job as a writer and consultant on the sitcom The Facts of Life (on which she had also appeared). She followed this up by creating the short-lived sitcom Raising Miranda, which was cancelled in its first season. She then had several other TV series gigs, and wrote her first play, The Baby Dance (1989).
Her first film experience was writing the 1993 HBO film The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, starring Holly Hunter; the film was critically acclaimed, and TV critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall in their 2016 book TV (The Book) named it the 2nd greatest American TV movie of all time, behind Steven Spielberg's Duel.[1] She later wrote and directed several other critically acclaimed television movies, including The Baby Dance (1998), based on her play and starring Stockard Channing and Laura Dern; When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver; and Normal (2003), based on her play Looking for Normal and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson. She also wrote the segment "1961" of the 2000 HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2, which won Vanessa Redgrave an Emmy Award for her portrayal of an elderly lesbian prevented from hospital visitation with her dying long-time companion.
She became a writer for the AMC television drama Mad Men for the show's second season in 2008. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series for her work on the second season.[2]
In 2015, Anderson wrote the documentary Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson about her great-aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, a lesbian and painter who was institutionalized in the 1920s and spent the rest of her life in an asylum for the mentally ill.[3] Anderson cites Wilkinson as an inspiration for her own drawing.[3]
In 2017, Anderson wrote the Glenn Close-starring The Wife.
Works and performances
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 1994 | It Could Happen to You | No | Yes | No | |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | No | Yes | No | |
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2015 | Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson | No | Yes | Yes | Documentary |
| 2017 | The Wife | No | Yes | No |
Television
| Year | Title | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 1986 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yes | No | Episodes "The Apartment", "Ready or Not" and "Write and Wrong" |
| 1988 | Raising Miranda | Yes | Yes | Episodes "Black Monday" and "Home for the Holidays" |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yes | No | Episode "How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation" |
| 1991 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yes | No | Episodes "Dream Child" and "A Type of Love Story" |
| 2008 | Mad Men | Yes | Yes | Episode "The Gold Violin" |
| 2014 | Olive Kitteridge | Yes | Yes | Miniseries |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
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| 1993 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | No | Yes | |
| 1998 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yes | Yes | |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Yes | Yes | Segment "1961" |
| 2001 | When Billie Beat Bobby | Yes | Yes | |
| 2003 | Normal | Yes | Yes |
Plays
- The Baby Dance (1989)
- Looking for Normal (2001)[4]
- Defying Gravity
- The Quality of Life (2007)[5]
- The Escort: An Explicit Play for Discriminating People (2011)[6]
- The Baby Dance: Mixed (2018; revised version of The Baby Dance)[7]
Other credits
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1985–86 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Program consultant | 5 episodes |
| 1986 | Who's the Boss? | Episode "Charmed Lives" | |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Executive story editor | 7 episodes |
Acting roles
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1978 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Regular performer | TV series |
| 1978 | Girlfriends | Omega Receptionist | Film |
| 1984 | P.O.P. | Dana McNeil | TV film |
| 1984 | E/R | Mrs. Grettie | "Only a Nurse" |
| 1985 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Karen | "We Get Letters" |
Awards and nominations
- Emmy Award for writing The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
- Emmy Award nominations for writing and directing The Baby Dance (1998)
- Emmy Award nomination for writing Normal (2003)
- Emmy Award nomination for writing If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (For episode "1961")
- Women in Film Lucy Award (2000) in recognition of excellence and innovation in a writing a creative work (If These Walls Could Talk 2) that has enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television[8]
- Directors Guild of America Award nomination for directing Normal (2003)
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series for her work on the second season of Mad Men (2008)[2]
- Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (2008) for Outstanding World Premiere Play for writing The Quality of Life[9]
- Two Ovation Awards (2008) for writing The Quality of Life[10]
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Long Form Adapted Series for writing Olive Kitteridge (2015)
- Emmy Award for writing Olive Kitteridge (2015)
See also
- List of female film and television directors
- List of lesbian filmmakers
- List of LGBT-related films directed by women
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sepinwall, Alan; Seitz, Matt Zoller (September 2016). TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time (1st ed.). New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing. p. 372. ISBN 9781455588190.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". WGA. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-12. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Heartfelt Documentary Unpacks the Work of a Forgotten Lesbian Artist | Bitch Media". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hirschorn, Joel (April 15, 2001). "Looking for Normal". Variety.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Guthmann, Edward (October 29, 2008). "Jane Anderson's 'Quality of Life' at ACT". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fernandez, Maria Elena (March 6, 2011). "Jane Anderson explores sexual conflict in 'The Escort'". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grigware, Don (May 7, 2018). "Interview: Playwright Jane Anderson Discusses the Relevance of THE BABY DANCE: MIXED a the Rubicon". Broadway World.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Past Recipients". Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Brown, Guirgis, Letscher, Metcalf, et al. Win LADCC Awards". 18 March 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2008 Ovation Award Winners Announced". Retrieved 18 October 2015.
External links
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