Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for her play 'night, Mother.  The play also won four Tony nominations, the Dramatists Guild's prestigious Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.  A feature film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, with a screenplay by Ms. Norman, was released in August 1986.  'night, Mother has been translated into 23 languages and has been performed around the world. Her first play, Getting Out, received the John Gassner Playwriting Medallion, the Newsday Oppenheimer Award and a special citation from the American Theatre Critics Association.  Her two one-act plays, Third and Oak: The Laundromat and The Pool Hall premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville.  Her play The Hold-Up was workshopped at ATL as well.  Her first novel, The Fortune Teller, was published in 1987, and the movie rights have been sold to Merv Griffen and Mel Brooks. Marsha Norman, Four Plays, was published by Theatre Communications Group in 1988. A new play, Sarah and Abraham, premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1987 and was produced at the George Street Playhouse in the fall of 1991.  Ms. Norman received a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her Broadway musical The Secret Garden.
		Lucy Simon
			Lucy Simon made her Broadway debut with The Secret Garden for which she received Tony and Drama Desk nominations, the Drama Loge Award, and a Grammy Nomination for the recording of the score.  Fanny Hack-about Jones, a collaboration with Susan Burkenhead and Erica Jong was produced at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.  She also contributed songs to the off-Broadway hit A...My Name Is Alice.  Ms. Simon wrote and produced the songs and soundtrack for the HBO movie The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom.  Ms. Simon received two Grammy Awards for her In Harmony albums which she wrote and produced, and she recorded two solo albums for RCA Records.  Ms. Simon began her professional career at age 16 with her sister Carly as part of The Simon Sisters.