plays include Absence, Julie Johnson, Family Life: 3 Brutal Comedies, Jersey City and The Ghostman. They have been produced in U.S. theatres such as Second Stage, HERE, Soho Rep, Long Wharf, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Charlotte Rep, and People’s Light and Theatre Co. Her plays have also been produced internationally in cities including London, Milan, Rome, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Melbourne. The Hole was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for best new American play.
 
Wendy’s screenplays include Julie Johnson, produced by Shooting Gallery Films starring Lili Taylor, Courtney Love and Spalding Gray. The film premiered in the Sundance Film Festival and played in film festivals all over the world winning many awards including Best Feature in the Barcelona Film Festival and an Audience Award in Berlin. Wendy produced, wrote and directed the short film, Lehi’s Wife, through American Film Institute’s Directors Workshop for Women, starring James Greene and Kathryn Joosten. 

Wendy is a recipient of an NEA grant, an NYFA grant, a McKnight Fellowship and a Drama League Award. She has been invited twice to the Sundance Play Unit, twice to the O’Neill Center, to a workshop at the Steppenwolf Theatre, and several times to New River Dramatists. She is a New Dramatists alumnus, holds an MFA from New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program, a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. 

Wendy has been on playwriting and screenwriting faculty at the University of Michigan, Brown, The New School, Brooklyn College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts in Singapore, and NYU in New York City. She has taught scriptwriting classes and Write Your Life workshops at venues such as New Dramatists and GEMS. She has been a literary manager at Soho Rep, the Bay Street Theatre, and the New Play Festival, Studios of Key West. She writes and consults with private companies, and helps shepherd individual writing projects as a mentor and coach.

She is a beginning but quite talented ping pong player, and the proud mother of the amazing Will who made this site!