Jones was chosen by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, to create a new production of the play. Wit opened in November 1997 at the Long Wharf Theatre, directed by Jones and starring Kathleen Chalfant and featuring Walter Charles and Alec Phoenix as her doctors and Paula Pizzi as her nurse. The play earned strong word-of-mouth reviews and won three Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, including best play. Championed by Kathleen Chalfant, the play was produced by the Off-Broadway Manhattan Class Company in September 1998 at the MCC Theatre and then opened at the Union Square Theatre on October 6, 1998 and closed on April 9, 2000 after 545 performances, receiving positive reviews. Still under Jones's direction, the play won awards from the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Dramatists Guild of America and Outer Critics Circle. Edson was presented with the John Gassner and George Oppenheimer playwriting awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Judith Light replaced Chalfant in the leading role and the two actress shared the national tour in 2000. Since then, it has received hundreds of productions in dozens of languages. HBO secured the film rights to the play and engaged Mike Nichols to direct and Emma Thompson to star. Nichols and Thompson collaborated on the screenplay. The production won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Made-for-Television Film in 2001. The play was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 1999. In 2012, the Manhattan Theatre Club produced a revival of the play on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theare. Lynne Meadow directed and Cynthia Nixon played Professor Bearing. The play was nominated for the 2012 Tony Award, Revival of a Play and Actress in a Play (Nixon.) There was a 2016 production at the North Carolina Theatre directed by Kate Galvin and starring Kate Goehring, reprising the role of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., Personal Edson has continued teaching with no plans to write another play. She teaches sixth grade social studies at Atlanta's public David T. Howard High School and, before Inman Middle School in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta was enfolded into Howard, taught the same grade and subject at Inman. She also taught at John Hope Elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia. She has given many public lectures including the 2008 commencement address at Smith College. She lives in Atlanta with her wife, art historian Linda Merrill, and their