Wendy Graf

WENDY GRAF is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced nationally and internationally. Recent plays include EXIT WOUNDS ( First Place Gold Medallion Winner Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative; Robby Awards Best Drama and Best Playwriting; Don Shirley’s 2023 Best 15; Open Fist First Look Festival Winner); WEDNESDAY’S CHILD; UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY (Stage Raw Recommended Top Ten; L.A. Times Pick of the Week; Outstanding Two Hander StageSceneLA); PLEASE DON’T ASK ABOUT BECKET; ALL AMERICAN GIRL (World Premiere produced by Interact Theatre Company; Outstanding Solo Performance Production, StageSceneLA; Bitter Lemons 2015 Ten Best; Stage Raw nominations for Playwriting and Solo Performance; Winner, 23rd Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference; L.A. Times Pick of the Week; Bitter Lemons Ten Best); CLOSELY RELATED KEYS (NAACP win + nominations; Best World Premiere Play of 2013-2014 StageSceneL.A.; Nan Martin Award Best Drama); NO WORD IN GUYANESE FOR ME (GLAAD Award for Outstanding L.A. Theater; Helen Hayes Awards Recommended); BEHIND THE GATES; LESSONS (L.A. production directed by Gordon Davidson); LEIPZIG (LADCC nomination Writing; Garland award/Playwriting; Dorothy Silver finalist); and her latest, MASALA DABBA, and A SHONDA, coming June 2024 in South Florida.