Wendy A. Schmidt is a Chicago playwright. Her one-woman play “Maker of Worlds” was developed at Three Cat Productions in Chicago in 2018, with a workshop production in December. Her play “Veda in Time” had a staged reading at La MaMa Studios in 2018 and in 2017 she attended the La MaMa Umbria International Playwrights Retreat with Erik Ehn. Her full-length farce “Marvelous Madeleines” was produced by Three Cat in 2016. Her play “The New Republic” had a staged reading in Chicago Dramatists’ Saturday Series in February 2015, and in January 2015, her full-length comedy “The Newlyweds” was workshopped in 20% Theater Company’s Dark Room Series. Her ten-minute play “Tornado Alley” was a finalist for the 2015 Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award. Her radio play “Goose Noir” was recorded live at Chicago Dramatists as part of the February 2013 episode of Small Fish Radio, and was included in the Atlanta Fringe Festival that year. As literary manager of Three Cat Productions, she curated and organized the Chicago New Work Festival, Next Draft Series, and monthly playwrights’ group for two years. Wendy has studied at Chicago Dramatists, Piven Theatre Workshop, TUTA, and Green Shirt Studios, and has a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Learn more :