Gina Wendkos

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Gina Angela Wendkos (born October 2, 1954 in Florence , Italy ) is an American writer , theater director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Born in Florence, the daughter of a painter grew up in Miami Beach and New York City and, thanks to her art-loving parents, came into contact with art as a child.

Gina Wendkos studied art in the second half of the 1970s and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in painting. She then got involved in some large-scale theater productions (including at New York's La Mama Experimental Theater), in which over 200 actors took part, and oversaw several off-Broadway performances, often by the Public Art Funds or the National Endowment for the Arts were funded. Wendkos later wrote his own plays, which he staged himself (Four Corners, Personality, Boys & Girls / Men & Women) and performed at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles, an alternative stage, in the mid-80s. At the beginning of the 80s, Wendko made window displays and installations, she became famous in October 1980 with her installation "Waiting for the Fish to Bite", exhibited in New York's Washington Square Park , in which she made hundreds of small plaster sculptures of girls in pink dresses. which she placed in the park fountain. Your work was u. a. exhibited at the New Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, PS 1 and the Spoleto Festival.

In 1987 she settled in Los Angeles . There Gina Wendkos wrote and staged at the theater (the plays "Boys and Girls / Men and Women", "Personality", "Dinosaurs" and "Ginger Ale Afternoon"). At the same time, she began writing for television, starting with the script for an episode of the Wiseguy series . From then on, Wendkos wrote individual episodes for TV series, most recently she also wrote occasionally for feature films. Her contributions to Coyote Ugly , a mixture of self-discovery drama, comedy and music film, as well as to the two Suddenly Princess comedies with Anne Hathaway were particularly well received in this area . All three films were hugely successful at the box office; however, Gina Wendkos has not worked as a screenwriter since the mid-2000s.

Movies

as a screenwriter

  • 1988: Fighting the Mafia (TV series, one episode)
  • 1988: Inspector Hooperman (TV series, one episode)
  • 1989: One Father Too Much (TV series, one episode)
  • 1990: Sugar and Spice (TV series, one episode, also production)
  • 1990: Married People (TV series, one episode)
  • 1991: The Man in the Family (TV series, one episode)
  • 1992: Love-Crash (Jersey Girl)
  • 1995: Love Must Be Crazy (TV series, pilot episode, also production)
  • 1997: Alone Against the Future (TV series, pilot episode)
  • 1999: Coyote Ugly
  • 2000: Suddenly a princess
  • 2003: Suddenly Princess 2
  • 2005: The Perfect Man

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less
  2. ↑ Wendkos in about the artists
  3. ↑ Gina Wendkos in publicartfund.org
  4. ↑ Wendkos in filmbug.com
  5. ↑ Wendkos in Los Angeles Times
  6. ↑ Gina Wendkos filmbug.com
  7. ↑ like 4
personal data
SURNAME Wendkos, Gina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendkos, Gina Angela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, theater director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy