Jane Wagner

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Birthday 1935-06-26 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Morristown, Tennessee, U.S.

Jane Wagner

Biography

Jane Wagner (born February 26, 1935), one of America’s most distinguished playwrights, has won numerous awards, including: several Emmys for writing and producing and a Writer’s Guild Award for her work in television. Wagner has also won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Award and a New York Drama Desk Award for her Broadway success, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableAce Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; three Grammy nominations for comedy albums she wrote with Lily Tomlin, Modern Scream, And That's the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards--the first for the CBS television special, J.T., and the second for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël.

Known For

Producer

2020
Radium Girls

as Executive Producer

2013
An Apology to Elephants

as Executive Producer

1996
1994
Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home

as Executive Producer

1994
1982
Lily for President?

as Executive Producer

1981
Lily: Sold Out

as Executive Producer

1973
Lily

as Producer

Crew

1973
Lily

as Creative Consultant

Director

1978
Moment by Moment

as Director

Actor

1987
Lily Tomlin

as Herself