The original play, The Diary of Anne Frank, written in 1955 by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, was a dramatization of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the version of the diary that was released in the United States in 1952. This production is based on newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank as well as survivor accounts. This new adaption was done by Wendy Kesselman in 1997.