Wendy Graf
Wendy Graf is a film and TV writer and an award winning playwright whose plays have been produced nationally and internationally. Awards and nominations include GLAAD, NAACP, Helen Hayes, Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative First Place Gold Medallion, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Dorothy Silver, Backstage as well as multiple local awards for Best Play, Best Production, Best World Premiere, Best Solo production, Outstanding 2 Hander. Recent plays include: EXIT WOUNDS (First Place Gold Medallion Winner Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative; Open Fist First Look Festival Winner; 2023 Robby Award Best Drama play. Best Playwriting; StageSceneLA Best World Premiere Plays of 2023/24, Outstanding Drama); WEDNESDAY’S CHILD; 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; Winner Last Frontier Playwriting Conference); CLOSELY RELATED KEYS (StageSceneLA Best World Premiere Plays of 2013-14/ Best Production Drama/Intimate Theater; NAACP win/nominations; Best Drama Production); 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, INHERITANCE and A SHONDA. Visit her at wendygraf.com