Jeffrey Lane
Bio
Jeffrey Lane is an author, television scriptwriter, film producer and actor. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Lane wrote the book for the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which ran on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. He has written the book for the musical adaptation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Lane wrote and produced for many television series and shows, including Mad About You, Ryan's Hope, Lou Grant and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. He has won multiple awards: The AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, five Emmy Awards, three Writers Guild of America Awards, two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
