She also spent many Saturday afternoons at Broadway matinees. Although she has loved plays much of her life, the notion of writing them did not occur to Wasserstein until a friend convinced her to take Leonard Berkman's playwrighting course at the neighboring Smith College during her junior year at Mount Holyoke College (Wasserstein graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1971 with a B.A. in history). She enjoyed the course so much that she later studied creative writing at the City College of the City University of New York with Joseph Heller and Israel Horovitz, receiving her M.A. in creative writing in 1973. The play she wrote as her thesis,
Every Woman Can't, was produced Off Broadway by Playwrights Horizons, a group and community Wasserstein frequently speaks of with gratitude and respect. She then moved on to the Yale Drama School, receiving her M.F.A. in 1976.
Her first acclaimed play, Uncommon Women and Others (1975), was initially written as a one-act play at Yale; the revised, expanded version appeared in 1977, six years after Wasserstein's graduation from Mount Holyoke.
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