"Admit One" makes "deliciously dismissive comments about Cornell, Duke, Tufts, Brown, The University of Pennsylvania... It's a good thing 'Admit One' is... a comedy. Otherwise American Institutions of higher learning might sue."
-The New York Times
"The two characters could not be more opposite...it is the interplay of their personalities that gives ADMIT ONE perfect pacing."
-Broadway World
Admit One
New Jersey Repertory Theatre
Directed by Karen Carpenter.
With Ames Adamson and Catherine LeFrere.
Howard Everett, billionaire donor to the elite Giddings University, meets Mary Sue, an admission officer from Giddings, to ensure his son's entrance despite his criminal record. What he does not anticipate is that Mary Sue has her own agenda...
Readings with Victor Garber, Michael Keaton and Merritt Wever.
The Mildred B. Fankhauser Award
The Actors Studio and Writers' Bloc
Piermont Retreat
Readings with Mia Katigbat, Maureen Silliman, Bill Perry, and Ching Valdes-Aran.
6 characters for actors with great comedic chops.
3 Women, 3 Men
2 Asian, 1 Hispanic, 3 White
After 41 years of volunteering at Premier Orthopedics Hospital, Lambie still has not been recognized as volunteer of the year with The Mildred B. Fankhauser Award. For Lambie this is a matter of justice. Breaking the rules, she takes action, putting the entire hospital's existence at risk.
Austeen, Florida, Elevation: 12 Feet
New Jersey Repertory Salon Reading
Directed by Elizabeth Healy.
With Anne O’Sullivan, John Caliendo, Chris Daftios and Joy Donze.
Austeen, Florida is a two hour drive from the ocean, where the tourists don't go and the locals like it that way. When Rozina Pompino finds an exotic reptile trade operating out of her garage, she goes ballistic, destroying her son's plan to get the hell out of Austeen.
4 great comedic roles.
2 Women, 2 Men.
1 Asian, 3 Italian
An Unfinished Symphony, aka Charlottenburg
New Jersey Repertory Salon Reading
Directed by Gail Winer.
Including Andrea Gallo, Estelle Bajou, Michael Irving Pollard, and Dylan Pitanza.
Rosel Hirschberg, a Berlin born, aristocratic Jewish woman, has been protected from the rising tide of Nazism due to her wealth, status, and beauty--until now. Her insistence that she is not Jewish puts the family, including her children, at dire risk. Rosel reacts by taking refuge in utter denial of reality.
I’m Peggy Guggenheim & You’re Not
Readings with Ana Gasteyer, Brian Murray, Laura Heisler, Michele Pawk, and Frank Wood.
Optioned by Elizabeth Healy.
October 1942, New York City. Peggy Guggenheim's exhibition of 200 works of art she smuggled out of France is a triumph. She is a triumph. And while the artists whose lives and careers she's saved enjoy her patronage, she is no longer their center of attention. She is secondary. Until she turns the tables.
The Space Between
the Trees
Directed By Mikel Lambert.
With Frances Sternhagen, Frank Wood and David Rakoff.
Semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Award
It is an unspoken rule that Elsa's mother, Mimi, does not speak about her past. Their conversations are not personal or emotional. So, when Elsa discovers that her mother has kept a secret that she has a brother, Mimi is so furious she can't speak. What Elsa doesn't know is that Mimi holds a secret far darker than Elsa can imagine.
EFPTOZ
Manhattan Theatre Source
With Joel Rooks and Mikel Lambert
Doctor Goldbeg is jovial with a difficult patient, Alma Schnee, who has come to him for laser surgery for glaucoma. When Dr. Goldberg discovers that Alma is a woman from his past, he takes desperate action to protect himself from her.
13 Rites
La Mama Theatre Festival
Reading
Directed by Traci Burwitz
With Sam Guncler and Patricia Randall
Camille and Lilith are both 13 years old. They are cousins but they have never met. Camille, who is Mexican American adopted by white parents, does not want to "make friends" with Lilith; Lilith is blown away by everything Camille says or does. Camille – with Lilith’s all too eager help—comes to terms with her trauma through levitation, but Lilith's fate is inevitable.
My characters demand attention. They speak in glorious malapropisms, accents, and made-up words. Most of them are liars. Many of them are multilingual, or claim to be. I've acted in theatre, film, improv, voice overs, and stand-up comedy. I write characters I'd kill to play.
In college, I wrote an honors thesis, "The Dialectic of Good and Evil in Thomas Mann and..." My typist wrote, "The Dialectic of Food and Evil..." Now that's a good title. Speaking of key influences on play settings, are my jobs as an admission officer for Brown (where I went to university), and as the director of volunteers at Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC. For a definitive understanding of my work, I refer you to the Montreal Period when I studied and performed corporeal mime at the (I'm not kidding) Ecole de Mime where I was known for my Lady of Versailles gait.
About Wendy
Awards & Membership
Recipient of The Berilla Kerr Foundation Award
Semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Award
Founding Member of the Writers’ Bloc
Gross National Product Comedy Group
Dramatists Guild