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Wendy A. MacLeod (born August 6, 1959)〔''U.S. Public Records Index, Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.〕 is an American playwright. MacLeod received a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2007-02-08 )〕 She received a MFA from the Yale School of Drama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-04-30 )〕 Her works include the plays ''Sin'' and ''Schoolgirl Figure'', both of which premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and were directed by David Petrarca. ''The House of Yes'', which premiered in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre and was the theatre's second-longest running show, became an award-winning film by the same name starring Parker Posey and earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2007-02-08 )〕 Other works include ''The Water Children'', ''Things Being What They Are'', and ''Juvenilia''. Her play ''Juvenilia'', a comic drama about college students "attempting to find love", premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, as did her play ''The Water Children'', both directed by longtime collaborator Petrarca, which has also been seen at Los Angeles’ Matrix Theater where it was cited as "the most challenging political play of 1998" by the ''L.A. Weekly'' and earned six L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wendy MacLeod )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-04-30 )〕 ''Things Being What They Are'' premiered at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and was then seen at Steppenwolf in Chicago in 2003 where its sold-out run was extended twice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-04-30 )〕 ''The House of Yes'' has been performed at Soho Repertory Theatre, at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and at The Gate Theater in London, where it was published in ''Plays International''. MacLeod's play, ''(Find and Sign )'', premiered at (Pioneer Theatre Company ) in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012. Set in the New York City music industry (with a slight nod to ''Othello''), ''Find and Sign'' is about a bumpy romance between an on-the-rise young record executive and an idealistic public school teacher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-04-30 )〕 Her critically acclaimed comedy ''Women in Jeopardy!'' premiered at Geva Theater in 2015, directed by Sean Daniels, and her newest play ''Slow Food'' was invited to the 2015 National Playwrights Conference.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-04-30 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2015-04-30 )〕 She has been a guest professor at Northwestern University’s film and theater departments. Her prose and humor pieces appeared in ''Poetry'' magazine, ''The New York Times'', ''Salon'', ''The Rumpus'', ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency'', ''The Washington Post'', and ''All Things Considered''. She is married to Read Baldwin and has two sons: Foss and Avery Baldwin. ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wendy MacLeod」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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