Wendy Gourley is a freelance playwright and dramaturg who is currently working on a Masters
of Communication and Storytelling at East Tennessee State University. She was the Playwright-
in-Residence for the Noorda Regional Theatre Center for Children and Youth and graduated
from Utah Valley University (UVU) in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in playwriting. She has
written plays for the Noorda Theatre, Resonance Story Theatre, and is currently working on
Extraordinary Magic for the revamped Young Ambassadors at Brigham Young University. Her
plays, The Story Stone and Making Mochi on the Moon, were National Bonderman
Symposium/Write Now semi-finalists and have been finalists/semi-finalists in the Kennedy
Center American College Theatre Festival – Region 8 playwriting contest, PLAYground festival
at Northwestern University, and New Plays for Young Audiences at NYU. Wendy was Suzan
Zeder’s new play/production dramaturg for The Milk Dragon at UVU. Her dramaturgy work on
UVU’s Eurydice garnered national awards: LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Fellowship,
national finalist; Fellowship to the National New Play Dramaturgy Intensive, Kennedy Center;
and the LMDA/ATHE Emerging Dramaturg Award.
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