Biography
Winnie Holzman is the writer (with acclaimed songwriter Stephen Schwartz) of the hit musical Wicked. For television, she created the memorable series My So-Called Life, which starred Claire Danes. She got her start writing for thirtysomething, and later co-executive produced (again with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Swick) Once and Again. More recently, she created the ABC Family series Huge with her daughter, Savannah Dooley. Other theater credits include the little-known musical Birds of Paradise, originally directed Off-Broadway by Arthur Laurents. She lives in L.A. with her husband, Paul Dooley. Their ten-minute play, Post-Its: Notes on a Marriage, is performed frequently around the world. A graduate of Princeton University, she has an MFA from the NYU Musical Theatre Program and is a member of the Dramatist's Guild.
