Wendy MacLeod

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Wendy MacLeod is a playwright. She received a B.A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama.

Works include the plays Sin and Schoolgirl Figure, both of which premiered at The Goodman and were directed by David Petrarca, The House of Yes which became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey and earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Things Being What They Are, and a musical How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, which is based on Marjorie Priceman's book.

Her play Juvenilia premiered at Playwrights Horizons as did her play The Water Children, which has also been seen at L.A.’s Matrix Theater where it was cited as “the most challenging political play of 1998" by the L.A. Weekly and earned six L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations. Things Being What They Are premiered at Seattle Rep and was then seen at Steppenwolf in Chicago in 2003 where its sold-out run was extended twice. The House of Yes has been done at Soho Rep, at The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and at The Gate Theater in London, where it was published in Plays International. Her play THRASH, a play about skateboarding, was invited to the 2005 National Playwrights Conference. She has been a guest professor at Northwestern University’s film and theater departments. Her prose appeared in POETRY magazine’s 2006 humor issue.