Painting by Marcia Gough.
About
Wendy Gough Soroka
Wendy is, among other things, a multi-hyphenate theatre artist based in Los Angeles.
Wendy’s first playwriting project was her solo show, The Divine Madness of Isabella) staged in 2005, 2008, and 2012) for which she was awarded the Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award. Her full-length play, CAKE, was produced at Theatre Unleashed in 2015, and her short plays have been produced at festivals around the world. Many of her plays are available to read at the New Play Exchange.
As an actor, she has been seen onstage in LA as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Desdemona in Othello, the title role in Joan Silsby’s The Devil’s Bride, Esther Summerson in the critically acclaimed Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, Imogen in Cymbeline, and multiple roles in Transports of the Heart, including Calamity Jane and Groucho Marx. Other favorite roles include Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Dorine in Tartuffe and Helena in All’s Well that Ends Well.
She made her directorial debut at Write Act Repertory with Diane Grant’s One-Act Sex and Violence, and continued her directing career with The Masque of the Red Death, Driving Rain, Clyde Derrick’s Teshuvah, Gregory Crafts’ Friends Like These, Cesar Abella’s Sleeping Around, and the 2016 remount of Joan Silsby’s The Devil’s Bride.
Wendy is also an accomplished Mask Artist, her masks having appeared in numerous productions in Los Angeles and around the world.
Wendy holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre from the Hilberry Repertory (Wayne State) in Detroit. She has also studied at the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, and holds a BFA from The University of California at Santa Barbara. Wendy is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, Teamsters 911 and MENSA.
When not on stage, Wendy is a voracious and indiscriminate bookworm, persistent gardener, avid dog-lover and relapsed Martial Artist. She currently holds a 3rd degree black belt in American Kenpo Karate. She is the Communications & Education Coordinator at Motion Picture Costumers, IATSE Local 705.
About
Wendy Gough Soroka
Wendy is, among other things, a multi-hyphenate theatre artist based in Los Angeles.
Painting by Marcia Gough.
Wendy’s first playwriting project was her solo show, The Divine Madness of Isabella) staged in 2005, 2008, and 2012) for which she was awarded the Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award. Her full-length play, CAKE, was produced at Theatre Unleashed in 2015, and her short plays have been produced at festivals around the world. Many of her plays are available to read at the New Play Exchange.
As an actor, she has been seen onstage in LA as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Desdemona in Othello, the title role in Joan Silsby’s The Devil’s Bride, Esther Summerson in the critically acclaimed Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, Imogen in Cymbeline, and multiple roles in Transports of the Heart, including Calamity Jane and Groucho Marx. Other favorite roles include Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Dorine in Tartuffe and Helena in All’s Well that Ends Well.
She made her directorial debut at Write Act Repertory with Diane Grant’s One-Act Sex and Violence, and continued her directing career with The Masque of the Red Death, Driving Rain, Clyde Derrick’s Teshuvah, Gregory Crafts’ Friends Like These, Cesar Abella’s Sleeping Around, and the 2016 remount of Joan Silsby’s The Devil’s Bride.
Wendy is also an accomplished Mask Artist, her masks having appeared in numerous productions in Los Angeles and around the world.
Wendy holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre from the Hilberry Repertory (Wayne State) in Detroit. She has also studied at the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, and holds a BFA from The University of California at Santa Barbara. Wendy is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, Teamsters 911 and MENSA.
When not on stage, Wendy is a voracious and indiscriminate bookworm, persistent gardener, avid dog-lover and relapsed Martial Artist. She currently holds a 3rd degree black belt in American Kenpo Karate. She is the Communications & Education Coordinator at Motion Picture Costumers, IATSE Local 705.
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