WENDY GRAF
playwright
PAST PRODUCTIONS
EXIT WOUNDS
Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle Gold Medallion Winner
World Premiere International City Theatre Long Beach, California 2023
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD
LAB Theatre Project - Tampa, Florida in 2021
UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS - A LOVE STORY
The Victory Theatre Center, Los Angeles - Maria Gobetti directs the World Premiere of Unemployed Elephants - A Love Story in 2018
PLEASE DON'T ASK ABOUT BECKET
Interplay Jewish Theater/Dobama Theater Cleveland, Ohio in 2017
Electric Footlights Production/Sacred Fools Theater in 2016
ALL AMERICAN GIRL
Starring Annika Marks and Jeanne Syquia (alternating) InterAct Theater Company Hollywood, Calinfornia in 2015
Stage Raw Recommended Top Ten/2015 Playwriting and Solo performance noms
LA Times Pick of the Week
LA Weekly “GO!” StageSceneLA 2015 Outstanding Solo Performance Production
Bitter Lemons 2015 Ten Best
CLOSELY RELATED KEYS
International City Theatre Long Beach Performing Arts Center Long Beach, CA in 2021 - Nan Martin Award - Best Drama
Hatikva Productions Lounge Theatre Hollywood, CA in 2014 Directed by Shirley Jo Finney - NAACP wins/nominations
NO WORD IN GUYANESE FOR ME
Rainbow Theatre Project in Association with 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival DC Arts Center, Washington DC - 2018 Helen Hayes Awards Recommended
TheaterWorkers Project Pasadena, California in 2018
Ensemble Studio Theatre - Los Angeles, CA in 2014
Bread and Water Theatre Rochester, NY in 2013
Workshopped at The Directors Company, New York in 2012
Sidewalk Theatre Burbank, CA in 2011
2012 GLAAD Award Outstanding L.A. Theater
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BEHIND THE GATES
Produced by Jobsite Theatre, Straz Performing Arts Center Tampa, Florida in 2013
Starring Annika Marks, James Eckhouse & Kehiller Walsh Hatikva Productions/The Group at Strasberg in 2010
Produced as Bethany/Bakol in 2009
Attic Theater One Act Winner, produced in September, 2009
LEIPZIG
Bema Productions of Victoria B.C. in 2021
Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, Bloomington Indiana in 2018
Starring Salome Jens, Mimi Kennedy & Mitch Ryan - Marilyn Monroe Theater Hollywood, CA in 2006
LADCC nomination and Garland award/Playwriting; Dorothy Silver finalist
LESSONS
Bema Productions of Victoria BC, Canada Presents the Canadian Premiere of Lessons directed and produced by Zelda Dean in 2018
Starring Hal Linden and Larissa Laskin directed by Gordon Davidson The Group at Strasberg / Hollywood, CA in 2007
Starring Mare Winningham and Hal Linden - The Group at Strasberg / Hollywood, CA in 2004
THE BOOK OF ESTHER
Theatre West/Studio City, CA 2001
Multiple San Fernando Valley Artistic Directors award nominations including Best Play and Best Production
ASK Theater Projects Grant Award