Wendy MacLeod | |
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| Born | (1959-08-06)August 6, 1959 (age 65) |
| Education | Kenyon College(BA) Yale University(MFA) |
| Notable works | Slow Food (2015) Women in Jeopardy! (2015) The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky (2014) Find and Sign (2012) Things Being What They Are (2003) Juvenilia (2003) The Water Children (1997) Schoolgirl Figure (1995) Sin (1994) The Shallow End and The Lost Colony (one-acts) (1992) The House of Yes (1990) Apocalyptic Butterflies (1987) |
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Wendy MacLeod (born August 6, 1959)[1] is an Americanplaywright.
MacLeod received aBA fromKenyon College inGambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence.[2] She earned aMFA from theYale School of Drama.[3]
Her works include the playsSin andSchoolgirl Figure, both of which premiered atChicago'sGoodman Theatre and were directed byDavid Petrarca.Schoolgirl Figure was then optioned for film byHBO and Anvil Entertainment. MacLeod'sThe House of Yes premiered in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre and was the theatre's second-longest running show. It became anaward-winning film by the same name in 1997, starringParker Posey, which earned a Special Jury Award at theSundance Film Festival.[4] Other works by MacLeod includeThe Water Children,Things Being What They Are,Juvenilia, andApocalyptic Butterflies.Apocalyptic Butterflies was filmed by the BBC asNativity Blues in 1988, starringAlfred Molina.
Her playJuvenilia, a comic drama[5] about college students "attempting to find love", premieredoff-Broadway atPlaywrights Horizons, as did her playThe Water Children, both directed by longtime collaborator Petrarca, which has also been seen atLos Angeles’ Matrix Theater where it was cited as "the most challenging political play of 1998" by theL.A. Weekly and earned six L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations.[6][7]Things Being What They Are premiered at theSeattle Repertory Theatre and was then seen atSteppenwolf in Chicago in 2003 where its sold-out run was extended twice.[8]The House of Yes has been performed atSoho Repertory Theatre, at theMaxim Gorki Theater inBerlin and at The Gate Theater inLondon, where it was published inPlays International. MacLeod's play,Find and Sign, premiered atPioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012. Set in the New York City music industry (with a slight nod toOthello),Find and Sign is about a bumpy romance between an on-the-rise young record executive and an idealistic public school teacher.[9]
Her critically acclaimed comedyWomen in Jeopardy! premiered at Geva Theater in 2015, directed by Sean Daniels, and her play,Slow Food, was invited to the 2015 National Playwrights Conference. The play will be premiering at Merrimack Repertory Theater in January 2019.[10][11] She has been a guest professor atNorthwestern University’s film and theater departments. MacLeod's essay "Name Brand Nostalgia"[12] was featured inThe New York Times and her essay/talk "The Daily Struggle"[13] was given as part of theKenyon Review's "Writers-on-Writing" series in October 2016. Her prose and humor pieces have appeared inPoetry magazine,The New York Times,Salon,The Rumpus,McSweeney's Internet Tendency,The Washington Post, andAll Things Considered.
MacLeod worked as the Executive Story Editor forPopular for the WB and wrote the pilotIvory Tower, commissioned byCBS, produced by Brillstein-Grey (The Sopranos) andDiane Keaton, with actressJeanne Tripplehorn. She served as the artistic director of the Kenyon Playwrights Conference[14] which supported new work though its commissioning program and offered an intensive playwriting workshop taught by the artistic staff of partner companies includingPlaywrights Horizons,Steppenwolf Theater,Roundabout Theatre,The Old Vic,Royal Court Theater,La Jolla Playhouse, andACT Theatre in Seattle.
She is married to Read Baldwin and has two sons: Foss and Avery Baldwin.[citation needed]
Women in Jeopardy!
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