Audrey Ann Wells (née Lederer; January 25, 1960 – October 4, 2018) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
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Early life and education
Wells was born in San Francisco, California, to Austrian-born psychiatrist Wolfgang Lederer and Romanian-born psychologist Alexandra Botwin Lederer; her parents fled World War II-era Europe. She had Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish ancestry.
She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.
Career
Wells worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM.
She wrote a number of successful screenplays and directed three for which she had created the script. Her works were primarily comedies and romance films. Among her films are The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), both of which she also produced. Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Wells also co-wrote the script for the comedy The Game Plan.
