Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Wendy MacLeod

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Center Conway, NH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992

Wendy A. MacLeod is an American playwright. She received her B.A. from Kenyon College, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence. She received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. Her works include the plays Sin, Schoolgirl, The House of Yes – which premiered in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre and was the theatre's second-longest running show, became an award-winning film by the same name, starring Parker Posey, and earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival – The Water Children, Things Being What They Are, Juvenilia, and Apocalyptic Butterflies, among others. She has been a guest professor at Northwestern University’s film and theater departments. She currently serves as the artistic director of the Kenyon Playwrights Conference.

Studios

Watson

Wendy MacLeod worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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