Wendy Biller’s eclectic work ranges from choreography for Paul Simon's “You Can Call Me Al” to jazz musician Terumasa Hino’s dreamlike ballet with Japanese director Kazumi Kurigami to The Bangles’ “Walk Like an Egyptian” to iconic Scottish artist Jesse Rae’s “Rusha” (which was part of a video installment at the Whitney museum of art.)
Her choreography for dance and theater has been staged in multiple venues in Europe and the USA, including the Public Theater, PS 1, New York Art Theatre, The Kitchen and New York/live arts/fresh tracks. Plays include Leaves Falling on a Brooklyn Girl (Forward Theater); Fragile (Know Theatre, Binghamton, An Intolerant Vaudeville part of The Inkwell Play Series at KGB Literary Bar and The Triad (Stage 72) as well as the Secret Theatre, The Refrigerator (Winner of the Andaluz jury prize, Fusion Theatre Company’s “The Seven,” Albuquerque, NM; also produced at Clark Center for the Arts, Worcester, Mass. as part of From the Hands of Strange Children. Her play Annette Funicello is Dead. (Fountain Theatre, end of play readings under France Luce Benson and Jordan Stovall was selected for inclusion in WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters (Smith & Krause), published in 2023. Other publications include “Dancer” (A&U magazine), which won the 2022 Christopher Hewitt Award in Fiction.
Produced screenplays for film include projects for Showtime, TBS and FOX. Adaptations of literary IP include Cool Breeze on the Underground, based on the novel by Don Winslow (Fox Television) All It Takes Is Brains, based on the story by Cornell Woolrich (Freemantle Media). Directing work includes the independent film Mumsy as well as the music video Pleasure (Glass Beat Game). Upcoming projects include “Beatrice,” which will have a residency at The Cell Theatre in Chelsea, NYC, as part of the Incubation series in 2023. Other projects include “Marjorie,” based on the life of Woody Guthrie’s widow, a dancer and pioneer for Huntington’s disease, and “Who is Magnus Hirschfeld?” based on the controversial Jewish sexologist for gay rights who lived during the occupation of the Germans and had his institute burned down.
Awards and honors include Writers Guild of America Award, National Endowment for the Arts Award, Emmy® Nomination. Member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild Of America.