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Dale Wasserman Advisor Plays 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was based on a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. In 1975 it was translated to the screen. The writer and star have contrasting remembrances of the original production. Recent (2000- 2001) How I Saved the Whole Damn World — A sailor on a drunken spree welds items from a junkyard into the mast of his ship. A plane flying overhead explodes and presto! an all-powerful weapon is born, and willy-nilly there is peace on earth. This comedy is about people so dazed with the new technologies they no longer know what to believe and, as a consequence, will believe anything. Boy On Blacktop Road — An investigation takes place related to the arrival and subsequent disappearance of a young boy. The latter two plays comprise the World Premiere of Open Secrets which opened In June of 2006 at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, California. Musical Theatre 1966 Man of La Mancha (music by Mitch Leigh & lyrics by Joe Darion) was a multiple Tony Award for Best Musical winner and among the longest-running Broadway musicals of all time. Originally written for television as a non-musical titled, I, Don Quixote. Screenwriter Credits 1958 The Vikings (with Calder Willingham), starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, Alexander Knox. 1963 Cleopatra (with several others, did not receive screen credit) 1964 Quick Before It Melts a comedy, from a novel by Philip Benjamin, directed by Delbert Mann, starring George Maharis and Robert Morse. 1966 Mister Buddwing (aka Woman Without a Face) from a novel by Evan Hunter, directed by Delbert Mann, starring James Garner and Angela Lansbury.— A man awakens in Central Park and is slowly shocked into the discovery that he is without name, status, or other civilized connections. A passing Budweiser beer truck and a passing plane supply him with a name—Buddwing. 1969 A Walk With Love And Death (with Hans Koningsberger), directed by John Huston and starring Anjelica Huston as Claudia. 1972 Man of La Mancha (film), directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren. Although Wasserman adapted Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the American stage in 1963, his playscript was not used as the basis for the celebrated 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson, and Wasserman did not write the movie screenplay. Television Writing Credits More than fifty, mostly in the Golden Age of Television. 1947 Kraft Television Theatre aka Kraft Mystery Theatre aka Kraft Theatre 1948 Studio One aka Westinghouse Studio One 1953 Kraft Television Theatre aka Ponds Theater 1955 Matinee Theater — "Elisha and the Long Knives" 1955 Matinee Theatre — Fiddlin' Man, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", "The Milwaukee Rocket" 1956 Climax!... aka Climax Mystery Theater—"The Fog" 1956 The Alcoa Hour — "Long After Summer" 1957 The O. Henry Playhouse — "The Gentle Grafter" 1959 The DuPont Show of the Month. I, Don Quixote (TV Episode) 1960 The Citadel (adaptation). 1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre — Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story 1961 The DuPont Show of The Month: The Lincoln Murder Case (Wasserman received his only Emmy nomination for this television play, but did not win) 1961 The Power and the Glory (some sources claim that director Marc Daniels won an Emmy for this, but this is not verfified either by the Emmy Awards website or the Internet Movie Database) 1962 G.E. True — "Circle of Death " 1963 The Richard Boone Show (NBC) — "Stranger". At night, on a coastal road, a boy is nearly hit by a car. The car's passengers, stopping to see if the boy is all right, are disturbed by his strange behavior. See Boy On Blacktop Road above. 1967 Long After Summer aka Boy Meets Girl Perchance to Dream Aboard the Flying Swan Book 2003 The Impossible Musical: The "Man of la Mancha" Story Activities Founding Member and Trustee of The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. Founded and Artistic Director of the Midwest Playwrights Laboratory, which encompasses twelve states in its program and awards fellowships and production to ten playwrights yearly. Awards "As to awards, I have received the usual quota of Emmys [Wasserman is mistaken here; according to the Emmy Awards website [[3]], he received only one Emmy nomination], Tonys, Ellys and Robbys and, for all I know, Kaspars and Hausers. I’m unsure of the number because I don’t attend awards ceremonies and so receive the knick-knacks by mail if at all. Ah, yes, one exception: when the University of Wisconsin offered an Honorary Doctorate, I did appear in cap and gown to address the audience in the football stadium at Madison, because a scant quarter-mile from where I was being Doctored, I had hopped my first freight at the age of 12. Irony should not be wasted." Writers Guild of America Award 1959 Television Anthology, More Than a Half Hour: Winner--I, Don Quixote (episode of DuPont Show of the Month) Tony award 1966 Musical: Winner—Man of La Mancha. Book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe Darion. Produced by Albert W. Selden and Hal James.