Wendy McClellan has spent the last ten years working as a director and staff member in the American regional theatre, with a majority of her career spent in the development of new American plays. As a director, she has worked with a range of writers from Tony-nominated playwrights to emerging artists. She has held staff positions at Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K. Theater Projects and Actors Theatre of Louisville. While living in Los Angeles, she was also the Artistic Director of Oasis Theatre Company, the first company to bring Anne Bogart and the SITI Company to LA. She is currently a freelance director based in New York City. Her directing credits include: At Actors: world premieres of Neon Mirage (2006 Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival), Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular (2005 Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival), Goody Fucking Two Shoes (2005 Humana Festival), Fast and Loose (2004 Humana Festival), Trepidation Nation (2003 Humana Festival), as well as A Christmas Carol, Underneath the Lintel, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Balm in Gilead and Mad Forest. Los Angeles credits include world premieres of Gregory Gunter's Antigone. Tertiary. Sexxx. (2001 LA Weekly Award Nominee Best Comedy Direction); Leon Martell and Penka Kouneva's Steel: John Henry & the Shaker (2002 Ovation Award Nominee Best New Musical); Jennifer Maisel's Impenetrable; and Antonio Sacre's Up to the Sky (also PS 122, New York). She recently directed the world premiere of Laurie Brooks' Brave No World at The Kennedy Center. She and long-time collaborator Jennifer Maisel were awarded the New York Coalition for Women in the Arts and Media's Collaboration Award 2006 for their upcoming production of the play Birds. Ms. McClellan is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts and a member of SSDC.
