Wendy Ewan

Wendy Ewan

Wendy Ewan is a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and instructor, and holds an MFA in Stage and Screen Writing from Lesley University. She was a KCACTF Regional Finalist for both her ten-minute play, "Intervention" and one-act for young audiences, "Mindgames;" and a Regional and National Finalist for her ten-minute play, "My First Love." She was a Finalist for the Playwrights’...
Wendy Ewan is a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and instructor, and holds an MFA in Stage and Screen Writing from Lesley University. She was a KCACTF Regional Finalist for both her ten-minute play, "Intervention" and one-act for young audiences, "Mindgames;" and a Regional and National Finalist for her ten-minute play, "My First Love." She was a Finalist for the Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Program with her full-length, LAND OF ENCHANTMENT, and her TV pilot, UNDER CONSTRUCTION was an ITVFEST Semi-Finalist. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, she is the Artistic Director of Scribe Stages. She calls Los Angeles home with her insanely supportive husband and two sons. Their cat and dog live in harmony with them.

Plays

  • The Undesirables
    It’s sometime in the near future, let’s say 2021, in a racially divided East Coast city like Baltimore, Maryland where the never ending news is bad news, global warming has become impossible to ignore, and undocumented immigrants are being rounded up by ethnic group and deported in mass. In a modern, updated "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner" style, Irwin, a first-generation Jamaican-American art student...
    It’s sometime in the near future, let’s say 2021, in a racially divided East Coast city like Baltimore, Maryland where the never ending news is bad news, global warming has become impossible to ignore, and undocumented immigrants are being rounded up by ethnic group and deported in mass. In a modern, updated "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner" style, Irwin, a first-generation Jamaican-American art student, brings home his serious girlfriend from a West Coast college, Tiffany, né Jeong Lee, a DACA recipient, to meet his mother, Althea, and grandfather, Hopeton for the first time. Irwin shocks his family and best childhood friend, Jacob, by revealing a life-altering plan amidst the cultural and familial discord that arises from the clash of everyone’s differing ideologies and beliefs. And just when we think the family drama is resolved, the government intrudes on the family with its new deportation plan. Will anyone be left to figure out next steps in a cold new America where even its naturalized citizens’ “desirability” is being interrogated?
  • Land of Enchantment
    Bienvenidos! Welcome to the fall of 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico aka “Land of Enchantment.” Tina’s and Lewis’s senior year begins in the Santa Fe High School auditorium at the traditional morning assembly, which in this case, doubles as a memorial service for Tina’s “perfect” sister, Adela who died in a drunk driving incident on prom night three months before. Tina finds a new friend in Lewis, whose beloved...
    Bienvenidos! Welcome to the fall of 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico aka “Land of Enchantment.” Tina’s and Lewis’s senior year begins in the Santa Fe High School auditorium at the traditional morning assembly, which in this case, doubles as a memorial service for Tina’s “perfect” sister, Adela who died in a drunk driving incident on prom night three months before. Tina finds a new friend in Lewis, whose beloved mother has recently passed away and whose father, Mr. Karenga, the new principal of the school, has escaped to New Mexico for a “fresh start,” away from painful memories. Through a series of memory “snapshots,” we are taken on a journey through the stages of grief in two families, with a Flamenco musician serving as our tour guide. Tina begins hanging out with her sister’s ghost and escaping her grief and guilt through drugs, alcohol and juvenile humor. Meanwhile, Lewis becomes increasingly haunted by nightmares in which his mother begs him to take all his pain killers from a football injury in order to join her in the afterlife. The parents are of no help as they’re dealing with their own struggles. When both families leave the confining routine of home and school life and visit Chimayo, an ancient religious place known for its “sacred healing soil,” will they finally learn to move past their grief and heal? Or will the divisions between them push them apart forever?
  • Mindgames
    Steph is just your average teenage gamer until she finds herself no longer playing her favorite game, but instead, living it. She soon discovers that she’s not alone and meets a friend who helps her discover more about herself than she ever imagined. Steph’s search for a way out forces her to face a slew of terrifying creatures from within the game, and perhaps more frighteningly, from her real life.
  • The One
    A troubled woman and her childhood best friend guide us through four major periods of her love life, which, though sometimes comedic as young love can be, ends in tragedy.
  • Intervention
    A young man finds himself in hot water as he faces kidnappers, family, and something altogether fishier in the bathroom; but the encounter just might give them all the release they need.
  • My First Love
    The stress of her mother's funeral brings on old cravings that Gabby just can't resist.
  • Love Letters
    When a teenage girl is forced to move away from her best friend, she desperately tries to keep in touch and stay sane through writing her letters.
  • Dear Diary
    When two teenage girls find themselves locked up together in a youth detention center, our assumptions about criminality based on stereotypes are challenged and we question who the real criminals are.
  • Mickey's Massage
    When an old girlfriend's scary sister pays him a visit, Mickey learns that revenge can be carried out in very strange ways.
  • The Recruiters
    When a college softball recruiter does a typical home visit to woo a talented athlete's parents to sign with her university, she meets with more than she bargained for in an alcoholic parent duo, the likes of which would give Martha and George of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" a run for their money.
  • The Moonlight Will Do
    When two high school sweethearts find themselves forced together again at their adult childrens' wedding, latent and inconvenient feelings are stirred up.
  • In
    When a popular vlogger decides to escape her engagement and her Online presence, she realizes the pink wall that surrounds Los Angeles was not only built to keep the tired, the weary, the poor out, but to keep the popular people in.
  • The Contract
    When a hard-working teacher and mother is given the opportunity to renew her "contract," she is horrified to realize that her negotiation for more time on earth may have unlivable consequences.
  • The Apology
    When two old high school friends get together back home on Christmas break, it quickly becomes clear why they haven't tried harder to keep in touch over the years. Their focus on an old dispute begs the question: if we can't get past disagreements amongst friends, how can we possibly solve our country's bigger problems on a micro or macro level?
  • Perfect Fat
    When two people meet on an online dating app, they soon realize that the "profile" doesn't always match the real person.