Shakespeare & Company Playwright Nominated for Emmy
 Playwright Jane Anderson, right, shares a laugh with the cast of 'Mother of the Maid' during rehearsals at Shakespeare & Company. |
On Thursday, Anderson received her sixth Primetime Emmy nomination for outstanding writing.
Anderson is nominated in the limited series, movie or dramatic special category for her writing on HBO's "Olive Kitteridge," a mini-series based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
During an interview with iBerkshires.com earlier this month, Anderson talked about the opportunity she has to move back and forth between playwriting and screenwriting.
"It's wonderful," said Anderson, who is currently working on a couple of projects for the screen.
"It's the same as a visual artist, who will move between sculpture and painting. They're all different mediums with all their own wonderful challenges and opportunities. I love all the forms."
And she has had success in all of them, as well.
She earned a Primetime Emmy for penning "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom" back in 1994.
She went on to earn nominations for writing in '99 ("The Baby Dance"), 2000 ("If These Walls Could Talk 2"), and '03 ("Normal"). She also was nominated for directing "The Baby Dance."
Her work on "Olive Kitteridge" already earned her his year's Writers Guild of America award for an adapted long form work.
"Olive Kitteridge," on which Anderson was an executive producer, is up for 13 Primetime Emmys, the third most of any show. The mini-series stars France McDormand and Richard Jenkins (both of whom were also nominated for Emmys) as Olive and Henry Kitteridge and follows their 25 years in a New England town.
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