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House of Yes: THE PLAY |
WENDY MACLEOD
Wendy MacLeod's most recent play JUVENILIA premiered Fall 2003 Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. Her play THE WATER CHILDREN premiered at Playwrights Horizons as a co-production with The Women's Project and was subsequently done 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. Her plays SIN and SCHOOLGIRL FIGURE both premiered at The Goodman, directed by David Petrarca. Her play THE HOUSE OF YES became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, earning a Special Jury Award at Sundance. The play has also been done in L.A., at Soho Rep, at The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and at The Gate Theater in London, where it was selected to be published in Plays International. Her children's musical, HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE AND SEE THE WORLD, based on Marjorie Priceman's book, premiered at The Kennedy Center. Her new play THINGS BEING WHAT THEY ARE premiered this spring at Seattle Rep and was seen at Steppenwolf in Chicago. A New Dramatist alumna and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, she is the playwright-in-residence at her alma mater, Kenyon College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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