Wendy Gough (Actor, Director)

Wendy Gough was most recently seen on the Write Act Repertory Stage as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Wendy  began working with Write Act Repertory while playing the role of Esther Summerson in the critically acclaimed Charles Dickens' Bleak House. She went on to perform in Transports of the Heart,  playing multiple roles including Calamity Jane and Groucho Marx. She made her directorial debut at Write Act Repertory with Diane Grant's One-Act  Sex and Violence, then continued her directing career with The Masque of the Red Death, performed at Write Act's Halloween Masquerade, and Driving Rain, part of Write Act's  Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre.  She most recently directed Clyde Derrick's Teshuvah.  She was seen in Diane Grant's A Dog's Life,  Shakespeare's Cymbeline as Imogen, the title role in Joan Silsby's new play The Devil's Bride, and in The Trial, for which she was Assistant Director and Maskmaker, creating over 60 masks for the production.  Wendy's masks have appeared in numerous productions in Los Angeles. Many of her creations can be viewed online at   www.arlymasks.com.

In 2005 Wendy staged her solo show, The Divine Madness of Isabella, about the great commedia dell'Arte actress, Isabella Andreini. 

Wendy grew up in Berkeley, California,  earned her BFA at the University of California at Santa Barbara, attended the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California, and earned her MFA from the Hilberry Repertory at Wayne State University in Detroit. Favorite past roles include Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Desdemona in Othello, Dorine in Tartuffe, and the title role in Wilde's A Woman of No Importance.  She is a member of the Screen Actors' Guild and Actors' Equity, and  a proud member of the Actors' Network.