Biography

Wendy has performed all over the country, including the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre, Asolo Theatre, Virginia Stage, Portland Stage, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, River Arts Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Alliance Theatre, Playmaker's Repertory, and Denver Center Theatre Company, among many others. She has worked with such wonderful writer's as J.P. Donleavy, Derek Walcott, Soviet writer Sasha Galin, The Red Clay Rambler's, Arthur Miller, and with dozen's of new writers helping develop their latest projects. She has done play development work with Women's Project, W.P.A., New York Stage and Film, Voice and Vision, New Dramatists, Primary Stages, and more. Wendy was seen on Broadway with Paul Newman in "Our Town", and in the Tony Award winning "All My Sons". Of her performance as Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (directed by Robert Cuccioli) Variety critic Robert Daniels said of her, "She is one of the finest Amanda Wingfield's in memory and can proudly take her place alongside the memorable Amandas in this critic's experience: Helen Hayes, Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris, and Maureen Stapleton." Wendy's great-great Aunt Elisabeth Risdon and Uncle Brandon Evans were members of the Theatre Guild and worked with such theatre figures as Alfred Lunt and Lyn Fontanne, Helen Hayes, and J.B. Shaw among others. Elisabeth went to Hollywood in her later years and was seen in over 100 films.

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