Writing
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
June 26, 1935 (age 90)
Born in
Morristown, Tennessee, USA
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.

Radium Girls
as Executive Producer
2020

An Apology to Elephants
as Executive Producer, Writer
2013

Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël)
as Writer, Executive Producer
1996

Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home
as Writer, Executive Producer
1994

Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle
as Writer, Executive Producer
1994

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Technical Advisor
1993

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
as Writer
1991

Lily Tomlin
as Herself
1987

Lily for President?
as Writer, Executive Producer
1982

Lily: Sold Out
as Executive Producer, Writer
1981

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Screenplay
1981

Appearing Nitely
as Writer
1979

Moment by Moment
as Writer, Director
1978

Saturday Night Live
as Writer
1975

Juke and Opal
as Writer
1973

Lily
as Writer, Producer, Creative Consultant
1973

J.T.
as Writer
1971