Wendy Graf

Wendy Graf is a film and TV writer and an award winning playwright whose plays have been produced nationally and internationally. Recent plays include: WEDNESDAY'S CHILD; EXIT WOUNDS (First Place Gold Medallion Winner Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative; Open Fist First Look Festival Winner); UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY (Stage Raw Recommended Top Ten; multiple Critic’s Picks; LA Times Pick of the Week; Outstanding Production/2 Hander StageSceneLA); PLEASE DON’T ASK ABOUT BECKET; ALL AMERICAN GIRL (Stage Raw Recommended Top Ten/2015 nom Playwriting and Solo performance; LA Times Pick of the Week; LA Weekly “GO!” StageSceneLA 2015 Outstanding Solo Performance Production; Bitter Lemons 2015 Ten Best); CLOSELY RELATED KEYS (BEST WORLD PREMIERE/BEST PRODUCTION INTIMATE THEATER 2013-2014 StageSceneLA; NAACP win/nominations); NO WORD IN GUYANESE FOR ME (2012 GLAAD Award Outstanding L.A. Theater; Helen Hayes Awards Recommended); BEHIND THE GATES; LESSONS (L.A. production dir by Gordon Davidson); LEIPZIG (LADCC nomination; Garland award/Playwriting; Dorothy Silver finalist); THE BOOK OF ESTHER (San Fernando Valley Artistic Directors nominations including Best Play; ASK Theater Projects Grant Award); BETHANY/BAKOL (Attic Theater One Act Winner, produced September 2009 and her newest, MASALA DABBA, A SHONDA and THE CROSS AND THE SABER.  Other short plays, THE VIDUY and MY GIRL, and THE CROSS AND THE SABER, were produced digitally by OPEN FIST THEATER COMPANY, OPHELIA’S JUMP and LOWER DEPTH THEATER ENSEMBLE respectively.

Visit her at wendygraf.com