I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

In 1990 Woodward graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with her daughter Clea. ) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of Shirley Jackson's story Come Along with Me for which husband Newman provided the voice of the character Hughie under the screen name of P. Woodward and Newman had three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959) known on screen as Nell Potts and generally as Nell Newman Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (1961) and Claire "Clea" Olivia Newman (1965).

Woodward was married to Paul Newman from 1958 until his death in 2008. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957). Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27 1930) is an American actress and producer of television and theatre.