Chair, Associate Professor of Theatre

Wendy has directed more than a dozen productions at Regis College, including Jane Eyre; Dancing at Lughnasa; The Good Woman of Setzuan; Quilters; GoodnightDesdemona (Good Morning Juliet); Antigone; and Steel Magnolias, which won a Moss Hart Award. Her production of The House of Bernarda Alba placed first at the 2000 New England Region's American College Theatre Festival, sponsored by the Kennedy Center.

Wendy is also artistic director of Theatre Espresso, a theatre-in-education company that tours to schools and federal courthouses with five of her interactive, historical plays. In 2002, her play Remember Last Night was featured as part of the New Play Series at the Theatre Cooperative. She is also the author of Salem's Daughters.

Before serving as playwright-in-residence at Salem State College in 1992, Wendy was the educational director of the Children's Theatre in Residence at Maudslay State Park from 1988-1992. There, she headed their Summer Arts program and European tour. She also directed several productions, including The Snow Queen; The Masque of Beauty and the Beast; The Marvelous Adventures of Tyl; and her original plays Dolphins: The Myth of Persephone and The Legend of the Christmas Rose.

As the Harwich Junior Theatre's playwright-in-residence, Wendy directed her play Keri Tarr: Cat Detective (winner of the 2002 American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Unpublished Playreading Project) in August 2001. Her book And Justice for Some: Exploring American Justice through Drama and Theatre (co-authored with Regis alumna Bethany Flaherty-Dunakin) was released in 2005.

Wendy serves as an emerging leaders fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston's Graduate School of Management. She holds a Ph.D. in theatre from New York University.