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STAGE DIRECTING

WRITING

ACCOLADES

The Writer's Lab, NYWIFT, 2021

Second-Rounder, AFF, Drama Feature, 2021

Semi-Finalist, Page Awards, 2021

Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Fellowship and Drama Feature, 2021

Winner, Austin Film Festival Virtual Pitch Contest, 2020                              

NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting                                                     

Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, O’Neill Theatre Center          

Semi-Finalist, National Music Theatre Conference, O’Neill Th. Cntr           

Finalist, Arts & Letters Prize                                                              

Community Arts Partnership Artist Fellowship                                       

New York State Stimulus Award for Playwriting         

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FILMS

La Casa Verde                                                                                                   

(Short Live-Action)

Tal Entertainment and Triad Media, Austin, TX

Justin Ehrlich, Director

Premiered at Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival 2018

Invited to San Antonio Film Festival, 2019

 

STAGE PRODUCTIONS

Birds of East Africa

Kitchen Theatre Company                                                                              

 

The Girl Duck of Cherry Street

The Cherry Arts, Ithaca NY                                                                             

 

Sammy & Me

Alliance Theatre                                                                                     

National Black Theatre Festival                                                               

Hangar Theatre                                                                                          

MusicalFare Theatre                                                                                     

New Vintage Theatricals, Adam Zotovich                                   

www.sammyandme.com

 

READINGS & WORKSHOPS

The Liberator

Civic Ensemble                                                                                                    

The Strangest Thing

Hangar Theatre Pilot Reading Series                                                                

Brother Love (ten-minute)

Hangar Theatre Pilot Reading Series                                                        

               

 

PUBLICATIONS

Dann, Wendy. “La Casa Verde.” Stone Canoe, a journal of arts, literature and social commentary. 14: 200-217. Syracuse University, 2020.

 

Dann, Wendy. “Brother Love.” Stone Canoe, a journal of arts, literature and social commentary. 8: 95-106.  Syracuse University, 2014.

DIRECTING ANCHOR

Sammy & Me

A Day (co-director)

The Wolves

Every Brilliant Thing

Constellations                                         Buyer and Cellar                                                                                 

To Kill A Mockingbird                                        

Sammy & Me

The 39 Steps

Betrayal

No Child…

Bad Dates

No Child… 

Sammy & Me (Writer/Director)

 

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Sammy & Me (Writer/Director)   

         

I Am My Own Wife

The Blue Room

Cats (SALT Award)

Stones in His Pockets

The Lion,The Witch and the Wardrobe

Nora

Chesapeake

The Unexpected Man

Cripple of Inishmaan

Dancing at Lughnasa

Chesapeake

Three Days of Rain

The Soup Comes Last (premiere)

Francis Bacon (premiere)                               

 

Touring

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Hansel and Gretel (premiere)

Jack and the Beanstalk (ASL/English)

The Truth About Dinosaurs(premiere)

Really Rosie

                                           

Readings

Waking Matilda by Mimi Kennedy

A Thousand Years by Kenny Finkle

Sammy & Me

Expats by Heather MacDonald                                                           

 

Affiliations

SDC

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Education

MFA, Directing

BFA, Acting                                  

 

Positions Held

Associate Artistic Director

Directing Fellow                                   

 

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BAY STREET THEATRE

CHERRY ARTS COLLECTIVE

DALLAS THEATER CENTER

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

DALLAS THEATER CENTER

REP THEATRE AT ST. LOUIS &

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

DALLAS THEATER CENTER &

CASA MANANA

ALLIANCE THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE 

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

NAT'L BLACK THEATE FESTIVAL

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEARE & 

MUSICALFARE THEATRE 

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

SYRACUSE STAGE

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

CIDER MILL PLAYHOUSE

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

KITCHEN THEATRE

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HANGAR  THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

HANGAR THEATRE

SYRACUSE STAGE

 

            

GEVA THEATER

ITHACA COLLEGE

NEW VINTAGE THEATRICALS

HOT INK FESTIVAL, NYU &

NAKED ANGELS

 

 

 

 

 

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

ITHACA COLLEGE

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HANGAR THEATRE

GEVA THEATRE                       

 

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STAGE DIRECTING

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