Wendy was raised over 9000 feet in the Colorado Mountains, and inspired her high-reaching, visionary, adventurous spirit that plays into everything she does.

Wendy was a Master Teacher at Warner Loughlin Studios for over a decade which was her creative acting home starting in 2007 and has studied with many other incredible teachers including Dee Wallace Stone. Wendy is deeply honored to pass on the wealth of knowledge, practice and experience she has harvested in service to other artists.

In over 30 years of acting on stage and screen, a favorite film role took her to Pakistan to play the head of the CIA in the award winning “Operation 021”. On the small screen, favorites include: Dexter, Grays Anatomy, and iCarly.

In 2003 Wendy founded Illumine Education, where she supported and empowered individuals in the arts to achieve success through her workshops and individual transformational coaching.

Wendy holds a PCC level certification with the International Coach Federation and is a Certified Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute ~ School of Embodied Leadership. She is now a teacher at the Strozzi Institute as well where she supports others to become Somatic Coaches.

As a producer, Wendy has brought to the screen the award-winning short “Beyond the Bridge”. In development are the Limited Series based on the accomplishments of the DGA’s first female member, Dorothy Arzner, the TV Show, “Outside the Box” as well as other projects that aim to positively impact the world.

In 2014, Wendy founded iWe, Industry that Works for Everyone, an organization committed to gender parity in the Entertainment Industry committed to building the grassroots movement to bring together all individuals and organizations working for women in the Industry.