Wendy Weiner is a writer and performer who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work uses humor to crack open the complexities of being a woman in our culture, and to explore the ways gender roles affect people of all sexes. 

Her play Hillary: A Greek Tragedy With a (Somewhat) Happy Ending – in which a young Hillary Clinton gets caught up in a war between Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love – had a workshop at New York’s Public Theater; received its premiere in New York from New Georges theater company; and has gone on to productions in New Mexico, Arkansas, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, and North Carolina.

Wendy has performed her most recent solo show, Mystery House (see separate page on this website), directed by Ryan Amador, in private homes in Los Angeles and New York, and had a month-long run at Scotland’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2023.

Her other works for the stage include: the play Perpetual Girl, a modern fairy tale about the most taboo thing a woman can do in Hollywood – age; the play Major Label, about a Courtney Love-like musician trying to make it in the boys’ world of 1990s punk rock; and four solo plays, all directed by Julie Kramer, which Wendy performed in multiple venues in New York and San Francisco. 

She has also written TV movies for ABC Family and Disney; sold an original pilot to ABC Family; had her work optioned by AwesomenessTV; and written two webseries produced by Alloy Entertainment.

Wendy has been an artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her writing has been published in The Hollywood Reporter, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, American Theatre magazine, and Theater Bay Area; Hillary is published by Dramatists Play Service.

Wendy received her MFA from NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, where she was named a departmental fellow and received a full-tuition fellowship.

Her current projects include continuing to perform Mystery House and developing her TV pilot The Joys of Sex.