Ebook {Epub PDF} An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein

 · Diane Davis, who stars in Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter as Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, in a scene with Saidah Arrika Ekulona, who plays her friend and colleague Dr. Judith Kaufman. While An Author: Hayley Levitt. Evan Cabnet directs Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Wendy Wasserstein’s prescient play about the cost one woman pays when she dares to have it all. An American Daughter runs 2 hours and 10 minutes, with one minute www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 30 secs. Set in Washington, D.C., AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER focuses on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, a health care expert and forty-something daughter of a long-time Senator. When the President nominates Lyssa to a Cabinet post, an indiscretion from her past is discovered. The media turns it into a scandal that imperils her confirmation and divides her family and friends.

Slice Hicks, Lolita Marie, Kathleen Mason, Michael Innocenti (foreground) in An American Daughter at Keegan Theatre (Photo: Cameron Whitman) The key conceit is that she's desperate for the pregnancy, "to create life" - not a peep about having a baby or raising a child. That's the down-side of some of Wasserstein's characters. In collaboration with the Black Theatre Ensemble, the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society opens its th season in the living room of a Georgetown townhouse. Set in a familiar scene, Wendy Wasserstein's "An American Daughter" features a set that puts all attention on the riveting plot. Directed by Caitlin Ouano (COL '17), the Georgetown-based political [ ]. An American Daughter Christine Lahti gives a show-stopping performance as a physician put under the news media's microscope in Lifetime's "An American Daughter," Wendy Wasserstein's smartly.

Synopsis. Based on the play “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein, the film stars Christine Lahti as Lyssa Dent Hughes, a privileged, well-educated daughter of a well-known Republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant. She is the wife of a professor, a mother, a prominent health expert, and the president’s nominee for surgeon general. Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes seems to have it all, a loving husband, smart kids, a lovely home, a politically prominent father, a highly successful career and now a nomination to become U.S. Surgeon General. However, in Wendy Wasserstein’s play AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, Lyssa suddenly becomes the center of a national controversy. An American Daughter. by. Wendy Wasserstein. · Rating details · ratings · 31 reviews. Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General.