Wendy MacLeod’s play “The House of Yes” became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey. “The Laugh Track,” inspired by the female head writer of “I Love Lucy”, will open at ACT in Seattle in 2021. Her comedy “Slow Food” premiered at Merrimack Repertory Theater and was seen at Geva Theater, Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, The Dorset Theater Festival and is now being done around the country. Her comedy “Women in Jeopardy!” was commissioned for The Writers’ Room at The Arden Theater, premiered at GEVA and has had over twenty productions around the country. Other plays include: “Sin” (The Goodman, Second Stage), “Schoolgirl Figure” (The Goodman Theatre), “The Water Children and Juvenilia” (Playwrights Horizons) and “Things Being What They Are” (Seattle Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre). Her television pilot “Granite Springs” was recently selected for the Orchard Project’s Episodic Lab, her play “Schoolgirl Figure” was optioned by HBO, and another pilot, “Ivory Tower,” was developed with Diane Keaton and sold to CBS. She recently did the screenplay for “The Shallow End,” a short film now being seen at festivals, including the Adirondack Film Festival, IndieMemphis Film Festival, IndieWorks (Winner: Silver Whiskers Award), NewFilmmakers NY, Deep Cuts Film Festival (Winner: Drama Award) NY Indie Theatre Film Festival, New York No Limits Film Festival and CASCADIA Int’l Women’s Film Festival.

Areas of Expertise

Playwriting, contemporary drama, writing the TV pilot

Education

1987 — Master of Fine Arts from Yale University

1981 — Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College, Phi Beta Kappa

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