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Winnie Holzman

Shows · Winnie Holzman

Book Writer b. 1954

My So-Called Life creator who wrote the book for Wicked.

Also credited on1 work

Wicked

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • He would take a chance on Winnie Holzman, whose theatrical experience was limited to writing the lyrics of one song in A…My Name Is Alice. But Holzman had done reasonably well in Hollywood, too, albeit on the small screen. She’d created and written for the hit series My So-Called Life and wrote many episodes of Once and Again. Schwartz’s…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • 1. Paul R. Laird, “The Creation of a Broadway Musical: Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman, and Wicked ,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical , 2nd edition, ed. William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, 340–52 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).ebooks/Laird, Paul R_/Wicked - Paul R. Laird.txt
  • 15. Telephone interview with Winnie Holzman, 29 March 2005, reported in Paul R. Laird, “The Creation of a Broadway Musical: Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman, and Wicked ,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical , 2nd edition, ed. William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, 340–52 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 341.ebooks/Laird, Paul R_/Wicked - Paul R. Laird.txt
  • 3. Paul R. Laird, “The Creation of a Broadway Musical: Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman, and Wicked ,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical , 2nd edition, ed. William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, 340–52 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).ebooks/Laird, Paul R_/Wicked - Paul R. Laird.txt
  • 18. Telephone interview with Winnie Holzman, 29 March 2005, reported in Laird, “The Creation of a Broadway Musical,” 342. The other quotations in this paragraph are also derived from this source.ebooks/Laird, Paul R_/Wicked - Paul R. Laird.txt
  • 90. Personal interview with Stephen Schwartz, New York, 22 March 2005, and telephone interview with Winnie Holzman, 29 March 2005, both reported in Laird, “The Creation of a Broadway Musical,” 346.ebooks/Laird, Paul R_/Wicked - Paul R. Laird.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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