Dale Wasserman Quotes

Dale Wasserman was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was an American playwright. Matinee Theatre, the television anthology which presented his first play, Elisha and the Long Knives, received a collective Emmy for the plays it produced in 1955, the year that Elisha and the Long Knives was telecast on that series. He wrote some 30 more television dramas, making him one of the better known writers in the Golden Age of Television. He adapted Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest into a play also titled One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which ran for six years in San Francisco and has had extensive engagements in Chicago, New York, Boston and other U.S. cities.