Wendy Bryan Michaels

Wendy Bryan Michaels

WENDY BRYAN MICHAELS is a playwright, comedy writer and actress. Her comedy show My Sister is So Gay, now on Amazon Prime, was nominated for seven awards, including “Best Comedy Writing" , continuing to be 'official selection' and 'award winner' from festivals around the world. DOLLY AND JOSIE EXIT A BAR, commissioned in 2020, was produced as a radio show, was official selection at...
WENDY BRYAN MICHAELS is a playwright, comedy writer and actress. Her comedy show My Sister is So Gay, now on Amazon Prime, was nominated for seven awards, including “Best Comedy Writing" , continuing to be 'official selection' and 'award winner' from festivals around the world. DOLLY AND JOSIE EXIT A BAR, commissioned in 2020, was produced as a radio show, was official selection at 2022 WEHO Pride Short Play Festival and was selected for the September 2023 Tampa Bay Short Play Festival. GOD AND SEX, a full-length play was a world premiere at the Santa Monica Playhouse in 2017 with an extension of 4 weeks to great reviews. LOVING MATHEW, a full-length play, had a staged reading at City Garage Theatre in Santa Monica, 2019, Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills 2020 and is in pre-production for a staged reading in spring 2024. Her one-woman show, CAPTIVITY IN THE BOX and other short projects, have been staged and developed with Santa Monica Playhouse, The All-Original Playwrights Workshop (LA), Tina Alexis Allen (NYC), Area Stage (FL), and Creative Group (FL). She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, Female Playwrights Initiative, and a past writer-in-residence at The Actors Workout Studio. Wendy is a proud member of Plays on Purpose/Miami New Musicals weekly writers group spearheaded by Ariana Rose in Miami, Florida since her relocation from Los Angeles... and you can find her in the Chateau d'Orquevaux in France 2025, joining other artists worldwide for a writer residency.

Plays

  • GOD AND SEX by Wendy Bryan Michaels
    Cast: 
    5–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: awkward sexuality, A Family issue + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: awkward sexuality, A Family issue, self-denial, Religion and Spirituality
    LOGLINE
    A bride. A groom. A maid of honor. (who just happens to be the bride’s ex-lover) WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!
    SYNOPSIS
    Amy, an ambitious and driven woman in her early 40’s wants to get married to Tim and keep her past relationships with women a secret from Tim’s family, friends, her father and their church. Amy asks her former lesbian lover to be her bridesmaid under one...
    LOGLINE
    A bride. A groom. A maid of honor. (who just happens to be the bride’s ex-lover) WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!
    SYNOPSIS
    Amy, an ambitious and driven woman in her early 40’s wants to get married to Tim and keep her past relationships with women a secret from Tim’s family, friends, her father and their church. Amy asks her former lesbian lover to be her bridesmaid under one condition; that she not drink and blab about their past relationship. Getting married to a man, Amy feels she is finally able to share an intimate relationship with her conventional-thinking father. The marriage takes place in a small town where Amy and Tim renewed their friendship and fell in love. The small town has the perfect quaint country church backdrop; however, the church is homophobic as is the friends and family of Tim. What if coming of age didn’t happen until your 40’s?
  • LOVING MATHEW by Wendy Bryan Michaels
    Cast: 
    4–8
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: cost of mental health, Schizophrenia + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: cost of mental health, Schizophrenia, family, brother and sister, addiction
    When a brilliant young man struggles with addiction and mental illness, his vulnerable sister fights to keep him from harm over seemingly insurmountable odds.
  • DOLLY AND JOSIE EXIT A BAR by Wendy Bryan Michaels
    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: drama, faith-based + 2 more
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    Keyword: alcoholism, Recovery + 2 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based, radio drama, young audiences
    Keyword: alcoholism, Recovery, spiritual, spooky
    A woman walks into the same bar she retreats to every night and encounters a strange woman never seen before, sitting at the bar writing in a large book. She approaches this stranger to get her to buy a drink since she is once again out of money. The woman at the bar agrees to pay for her drinks under one condition. That she orders the exact same drink as she has in front of her. Uncomfortable that the woman...
    A woman walks into the same bar she retreats to every night and encounters a strange woman never seen before, sitting at the bar writing in a large book. She approaches this stranger to get her to buy a drink since she is once again out of money. The woman at the bar agrees to pay for her drinks under one condition. That she orders the exact same drink as she has in front of her. Uncomfortable that the woman could be hitting on her, she changes her mind, returning to her tried and true tricks for getting men to buy her drinks, but this time with no success. She decides to comply with the woman’s condition and her world is forever changed.
  • YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE FLOOR by Wendy Bryan Michaels
    Cast: 
    3–6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: father, Daughter + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, faith-based
    Keyword: father, Daughter, stepfamily, healthcare, Finance
    Bill a retired executive in his 80’s with a gorgeous beauty queen wife Jessica, and resentful gay daughter Sarah, has his world flipped over when he is admitted back to the hospital post-surgery with no control over getting people to let him drink beer, smoke his pipe or go home. Sarah still resents his treatment of her growing up but agrees to give her stepmother a break from caretaking, except when she...
    Bill a retired executive in his 80’s with a gorgeous beauty queen wife Jessica, and resentful gay daughter Sarah, has his world flipped over when he is admitted back to the hospital post-surgery with no control over getting people to let him drink beer, smoke his pipe or go home. Sarah still resents his treatment of her growing up but agrees to give her stepmother a break from caretaking, except when she visits for 5 minutes to brush his hair and shave him. When Jessica refuses to let Bill come back home until he goes to another rehab, Sarah and Bill are forced to relinquish denial to discover unrecognized talents and assets.

  • NOTHING OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE by Wendy Bryan Michaels
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, holiday
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    Keyword: bond between sisters, baby + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, holiday
    Keyword: bond between sisters, baby, New City, Miami life
    Two sisters re-unite in a new city.