Wendy MacLeod

Officer Roberto is questioned about the riots at the G8 Summit in Genoa. Was there police brutality or were the police merely defending the statuary? Were the peaceful protesters actually violent extremists? Who was singing Fascist songs and why were the women barking? The mayor, the prime minister, and the world are desperate to see Roberto’s police report but he’s determined to make it a work of art. In Act II we move to the Capitol, post-January 6, where the demonstrators insist on their innocence.

Inspired by the story of Lucille Ball’s head writer, a young woman tries to be taken seriously in the early days of television comedy. Sparks fly between Maddie and Bob, the writing partner who lets her do the typing while taking credit for her jokes. As the two get closer, Lucy and Desi come apart; the show’s singular success takes its toll on them all.

In stories of loss that move from the Civil War to 9/11 to the present, people look to photography for solace. But do the images supplant memories? Do they violate the dead?

When Kerry returns to the office after the pandemic, she finds Lee sitting at her desk. Mysteriously, no other coworkers are there for the heralded "Work from Work Wednesday.” As Kerry trolls for Lee’s story, Lee urges her to quit selling financial literacy software and write the YA book she's always wanted to write. Their friendship forms against a slightly dystopian post-pandemic background, where the delis have closed and most human exchanges take place on computers. When Kerry discovers that Lee is actually a homeless man who’s been living in the supply closet, she threatens to expose him

What if there were a Second Coming only this time the Messiah was born a girl? In Mary’s Girl Jessie challenges Sunday School teachers, creationist science teachers, abortion protesters, the welfare system, evangelicals, and Hollywood--all while trying to redeem a flawed world.

When Héctor, a Guatemalan teenager working at a nearby agri-business, hides in a college student's car, she has to protect him from the rule-bound CA down the hall and the farmer who’s looking for him. Can she trust the bro’ who claims to have connections to a senator? Inspired by a labor-trafficking case in Ohio, The Good Samaritan is a timely dark comedy that satirizes American attitudes about immigration.

A vacationing couple celebrates their anniversary at a Greek restaurant in Palm Springs - but will the marriage survive the service? As a wacky waiter insinuates his way into their meal - and their lives - the couple examine their past and their future together. A tender, uproarious comedy that delves deeply into what we hunger for.

Divorcees Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new dentist boyfriend--he's not just a weirdo; he may be a serial killer! After all, his hygienist just disappeared. Trading their wine glasses for spy glasses, imaginations run wild as the ladies try to discover the truth and save their friend in a hilarious off-road adventure. Available through Dramatists Play Service.

Co-commissioned by American Conservatory Theater and His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland, playwright/director Wendy MacLeod's The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky offers a quick-witted comedy where clan warfare begins on the rugby pitch. When the team captain declares himself king, the players (boys, girls, and the conflicted) fight for the right to rule and the right to be called Charlie.

Set in the New York City music industry (with a slight nod to Othello), Find and Sign takes us through the bumpy romance between an on-the-rise music executive and an idealistic public school teacher. When one of the teacher’s students turns out to be a gifted young hip-hop artist whom her boyfriend wants to 'find and sign' to a recording contract, their tentative romance is complicated by a tug-of-war over the student’s future.

As Bill anxiously waits for his unfaithful wife and his furniture, he is visited
by Jack, an older divorced neighbor who suggests the loneliness of life after marriage. A comic and wistful exploration of love, loss, and the needs that bring people together and drive them apart.
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Set in a mythical Bronx, the play is about four African-American teen-agers on the brink of their adult lives, who have received a mysterious package from pandorasbox.com.

Set in a small college town in Indiana, Birnham Woods finds Janice waiting for something, anything, to happen. When her handsome colleague Kevin invites her husband to do some lucrative consulting for a mysterious organization, Janice sees her ticket out. But is the new corporation really a global think tank or is it a cover for a terrorist network? And is Kevin more than just a colleague?

A ghost story about Ephraim, an Iraq War vet, who joins forces with the ghost of a Civil War veteran to wrest a New Hampshire farmhouse away from the Boston lawyer who just bought it as a summer house.

In the far-off land of academia, Diane and Jesse attend the worst dinner party ever. The hosts have disappeared, young children are putting beans up their nose and a cat-eating dog is on the loose. Then Maya, the party’s nominal honoree, brings news for Diane about a job in New York. The party ends in disaster, hilarity, and burnt bridges.

Raised on irony, educated by internet porn, and bored of frat parties, a group of friends at a small Midwestern college challenge each other to have a 3-way with the Christian down the hall. Available at playscripts.com

Welcome to a high school where the in-crowd is the thin-crowd. The death of the ur-anorexic Monique, queen of the Carpenters, kicks off a scramble for the crown, and the school's hottest hottie, The Bradley. Renee, with the help of her bulimic best friend Patty, is determined to claim the crown by out-foxing her rival Jeanine and taking her body back to its pre-puberty contours. Let the diet wars begin!
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