has written and performed three solo pieces: Give Me Shelter, Searching for the '60s and Defying Freud. Give Me Shelter was awarded "Best of Fringe" at the New York and San Francisco Fringe Festivals and published in Smith & Kraus's "Best Women Playwrights" book series. Great Highway, a play she wrote with Octavio Solis, will had its world preimiere in Ashland, Oregon, this summer, and her play Major Label has had readings at New Georgies, EST, and NYU's Hot Ink Festival.
Wendy has performed her own work in New York at PSNBC, HERE's American Living Room, Festival, Dixon Place, The John Houseman Theatre, and Surf Reality, and in San Francisco at Intersection for the Arts and the EXIT Theatre. For four years, she wrote and peformed with Kinda Personal, the all-female sketch comedy group of New Georgres theatre company.
Wendy has been an artist in residence at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Virginai Center for the Creative Arts and was selected as a Departmental Fellow at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts dramatic writing program for the years 2005- 2007. Her articles have been published in American Theatre, Mademoiselle, Bitch: A Feminist REsponse to Pop Culture, Theatre Bay Area, and on LIfetimeTV.com
But most important...Wendy has been a lowly copy editor at Marie Claire, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parenting, Time Out, TV Guide, and countless other publications.
Julie Kramer (director):
directed and developed Wendy Weiner's solo show Give Me Shelter in the first New York Fringe Festival, as well as productions of Wendy's solo shows Searching for the '60s and Defying Freud and several readings and workshops of her play Major Label. She was dramaturg for The Joys of Sex by Melissa Levis and David Weinstein at the New York Fringe and for its transfer to The Variety Arts Theatre Off-Broadway. She is directing Nixon's Daughters by Jacquieline Brogan at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center after a workshop production at Transport Group. Julie recently directed two plays in EST/Youngblood's Asking for Trouble Festival, No Change by James Christy at the Access Theater and the Diversity Showcase for ABC-TV.
Other directing credits include None of the Above (New Georges) and You Should have Brought Your Mink (Dawn Powell Festival), both by Jenny Lyn Bader, 17 Guys I Fucked by Christen Clifford at the cultureproject; Andrew Secunda's One Woman Show (Best of 2001 - Comedy, Time Out New York); and The Vagina Monolgues for V-Day in her hometown of Scranton, PA. For HBS/Aspen Comedy Festival, Julie has directed A Cookie Full of Arsenic by Amy Wilson, Taught Sean Conroy, and Judy Speaks by Mary Birdsong.