Career Highlights: Secretary, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, The Last Samurai
First Major Screen Credit: Secretary (2002)
Biography
Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson is a professor of dramatic writing at Duke University and a monthly sex columnist for Razor magazine. Some of her internationally produced plays include Hurricane, The Trail of Her Inner Thigh, and Cross-Dressing in the Depression. Along with Lillian Ann Slugocki, she co-wrote The Erotica Project. Her screenplay adaptation of Mary Gaitskil's novel was made into the feature film Secretary, earning her a nomination for Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards. She also adapted the musical Wilder and wrote the screenplays Celeste and The Burgermeister's Daughter. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide