The event will take place at the UJA-Federation of New York's Annual Gala Spring Luncheon at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. Film producer Meryl Poster will also be a panelist. Dr. Robi Ludwig will moderate. Roth has produced dozens of plays on and Off-Broadway, including the current Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her son is Jordan Roth, also a theatrical producer.
Wasserstein is the author of The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, Old Money and the upcoming Third. Her daughter Lucy was born in 1999.