About
Wendy
I'm a writer and performer who was born in San Francisco, spent many years in New York's East Village, and now lives on the east side of L.A.
My work — sometimes heightened, sometimes realistic, always infused with humor — is often inspired by real people. I'm particularly interested in how sexism affects people of all genders, and exposing the (more interesting) truth behind the stories of "crazy women" and "bitches" of our culture.
My play Hillary: A Greek Tragedy With a (Somewhat) Happy Ending — in which Hillary Clinton gets caught up in a war between Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love — had a workshop at New York's Public Theater and received its premiere in New York from New Georges theater; both the workshop and premiere were directed by Julie Kramer. Hillary has gone on to productions around the country, and is published by Dramatists Play Service (you can purchase a copy here).
Other plays and solo pieces of mine have been developed or produced at such theaters as HERE Arts Center and Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York; Intersection for the Arts and the Exit Theater in San Francisco; ArtAttack Theater in Ashland, Oregon; and Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City.
Offstage, I got my WGA card by writing a TV movie for Disney (Zendaya's first movie, Frenemies!). I've also sold original TV pilots; written a TV movie for ABC Family; and written two web series produced by Alloy Entertainment. My nonfiction writing has been published in The Hollywood Reporter, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and American Theatre magazine, among others, and I've been an artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
After training as an actor at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where I double-majored in psychology, I went on to get my MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, where I was named a departmental fellow and received a full-tuition fellowship.
My current projects include performing my solo show Mystery House (more info here); producing artistic events (see this page); and developing my TV pilot for a 1970s-set family drama titled The Joys of Sex. Inspired by a true story, it centers on a teenage girl who makes the shocking discovery that she's actually a biological boy who's been raised as a girl.
Victoire Charles and Heidi Armbruster in the New Georges production of Hillary.