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An American Daughter By Wendy Wa


Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes is the daughter of a U.S. Senator. She appears to be headed for nomination as the U.S. Surgeon General until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury duty notice. Then, she makes a faux pas in comments about her homemaker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her certain nomination suddenly appears to be in doubt. She is supported by her best friend, Judith Kaufman, an "African American Jewish feminist" physician, who has her own set of troubles.


An American Daughter is a full-length drama by WendyWasserstein. A candidate for U.S. Surgeon General, who is thedaughter of a famous senator, finds her campaign in trouble when apast indiscretion is revealed and treated as a scandal. The play wasinspired by President Clinton's nomination for attorney general ofcorporate lawyer, Zoe Baird, doomed by the disclosure that she hadfailed to pay social security taxes for domestic help.


In the spring of 1997, as part of our "New Plays at the Cort" series, Lincoln Center Theater presented AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. This was Wendy's first play since the much-loved The Sisters Rosensweig (produced in 1992 by LCT). In the tradition of her earlier works such as The Heidi Chronicles, Isn't It Romantic and Uncommon Women And Others, Wendy's new comedy-drama offered a funny, touching and sharply-observed portrait of a contemporary American woman and the people in her life. Set in contemporary Washington D.C., AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER focuses on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, an expert on health care and the fortysomething daughter of a longtime Senator. When the President nominates her to a Cabinet post, a minor indiscretion from her past is discovered and the media whips it into a scandal which imperils her confirmation and divides her family and friends. Lyssa is then forced to make a decision in a no-win situation: continue to pursue the post and face an ugly Senate hearing or decline the nomination and become a sacrificial lamb for the President. Partisan politics in our nation's capital, however, are nothing compared to the heated personal politics in Lyssa's Georgetown living room, where her complicated relationships unravel with her father, husband and best girlfriend - not to mention her encounters with a neo-feminist author named Quincy Quince and a TV journalist named Timber Tucker. AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER marked Wendy's third collaboration with the gifted director Danniel Sullivan, who previously staged Rosensweig and Heidi (as well as Jon Robin Baitz's A Fair Country and The Substance of Fire).


A member of the Crow Tribe, Red Star has been a part of many art installations across the country and continued that at the WSU Museum of Art this past fall. Red Star and her ten-year-old daughter, Beatrice, gave a lecture in November about their collaborations to share the vast stories of the Crow people.


Stephen Leavitt Reid and his wife Djeswende Pasgo Reid tragically died on Monday, April 18, 2022. Steve was born in 1955 in Concord, New Hampshire, the second of five children of William and Peggy-Ann (Leavitt) Reid. Djeswende, affectionally known as Wendy, was the eldest daughter of nine children, born in Benin in 1956 to Bila and Poco Pasgo.


Although Wendy was raised in Togo, both her parents and the extended family hailed from Burkina Faso. As the daughter of a prominent pastor in the Assemblies of God Church, she was raised with, and maintained, a deep-rooted faith. 1e1e36bf2d






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