Wendy MacLeod’s plays include Schoolgirl Figure, which was optioned by HBO, and premiered at The Goodman Theater in 2000, where her play Sin also premiered before opening Off-Broadway at Second Stage. She is the author of The Water Children, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York as a co-production with The Women’s Project and was subsequently produced 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. The House of Yes, which became an award-winning film, won the Bay Area Critics Award for Best New Play of 1990 and became the second longest running show in The Magic Theater’s history. The play has since been produced in Los Angeles, 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 in 1999. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, The Kennedy Center, and the Contemporary American Theater Festival. A New Dramatists alumna, she is the playwright–in–residence at her alma mater, Kenyon College, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild. Her newest play is Things Being What They Are.
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