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February 11, 2012

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LINDA WOOLVERTON

LINDA WOOLVERTON (Book). Broadway: Beauty and the Beast (Tony nomination). She is a native of Long Beach, California, and holds a master's degree in Theatre for Children from Cal State Fullerton. In 1980, she moved into film and TV by beginning a four-year stint as an executive for CBS-TV. She wrote two young adult novels, Starwind and Running Before the Wind. When one of her novels came to the attention of a Disney executive, she was hired to work on the animated feature Beauty and the Beast (Golden Globe winner and Academy Award Best Picture nominee). Woolverton wrote the screenplay for the live-action feature Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and co-wrote the screenplay for The Lion King. She recently wrote the book for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida. Linda Woolverton and her husband Lee Flicker are the proud parents of a daughter, Keaton.


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Beauty and the Beast

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

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