The Maryland Stage Company

Wendy Salkind has been an Associate Artist of The Maryland Stage Company since its inception in 1987. Her MSC performance as Mouth in Not I received high praise at the International Beckett Festival in Strasbourg, France, in 1996. With the MSC at Center Stage in Baltimore, she played Ouisa in Six Degrees of Separation, Arkadina in The Seagull, and Elmire in Tartuffe. Her other MSC roles include Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi, Masha in Three Sisters, Irma in The Balcony, Goneril in King Lear, Anna in Old Times, and Arsinoe in The Misanthrope. With the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra she performed Shakespeare and Sitwell and Merlin and the Boy King Arthur and was recently seen in two independent films, Holy Water and Cleave. Currently, she is adapting Gertrude Stein's novel, Ida, for theatre performance. In recent years she has written a two-woman play, Air for One, in which she performed as guest artist at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, and which has had productions mounted in Washington, D.C., New York City, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Ms. Salkind has been a teacher of acting and vocal production for twenty years. She is an associate professor of theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and currently serves as chairperson of the Department of Theatre. She is also a practitioner of the Alexander Technique, which she teaches at the university and privately in workshops in Baltimore. She began her professional training at Boston University and California Institute of the Arts, and completed that training at the University of California at Davis, where she began teaching while becoming active in experimental theatre in San Francisco.

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