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Graduate of The University of Texas at Austin - BFA '52. Mother of Jane Harnick and Aaron Harnick. She created Tomato Lightning, a spicy chutney available in gourmet food stores. Sister-in-law of Sheldon Harnick. Survived rectal cancer. Long married to Jay Harnick, the founder and longtime artistic director of TheatreworksUSA, the nation's largest company for young audiences and a training ground for some of the more noted names in entertainment, including F. Murray Abraham, for almost 40 years. During his tenure, Harnick's company performed for 50 million children and earned Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards, the only children's theatre to do so. Harnick retired in 2000 and died on February 27, 2007. Wrote "Second Act" in 1997, a frank and irreverently humorous book chronicling her 30-year experience first with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and subsequent cancer.