Wendy Kout

Wendy Kout is an award-winning writer/producer of stage, film, virtual screen and television, whose work has been appreciated around the world.

STAGE CREDITS: SURVIVORS, inspired by the eye-witness accounts of Holocaust survivors was commissioned by CenterStage Theatre of Rochester, NY in June 2017. There are now five national and international annual touring productions of the play. Wendy co-produces the West Coast tour which is honored to be partnered with Holocaust Museum LA and the Holocaust Education Center of StandWithUs. Highlights of the tour include a sold-out public premiere in Los Angeles presented by the Museum of Tolerance and performing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and at the Marjorie Luke Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA for 900 public school students and adults.

Never is Now, a full-length iteration of SURVIVORS had an acclaimed world premiere at Skylight Theatre Company in Los Angeles, September 2019 and was also performed at the USC Fisher Museum and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. We Are the Levinsons world premiered at Six Points Theatre (previously the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company) and won BroadwayWorld Regional awards for Best Play and Best Ensemble Performance. Naked in Encino world premiered at CenterStage Theatre in Rochester, NY, and won Marlowe Awards for Best New Play and Best Production, Comedy for its And Toto too Production in Denver, Colorado. Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas, co-written with Michele Willens, is an O’Neill Conference Finalist and has been produced as a fundraiser in NYC and L.A. for The Nation magazine, in L.A. for People for the American Way and in Washington, D.C. for National Women’s Law Center. Wendy’s virtual play credits produced by Skylight Theatre Company are Courage Takes the Stage, co-written with Michele Willens, Wake Up Call, co-written with Jeff Reno and Wendy was one of the writers who created, We the People, which served as a warning about our threatened democracy in 2020.

FILM CREDITS: Co-Writer and Co-Producer of Jacob the Baker, an indie film, Executive Produced by Indian Paintbrush, repped by CAA and distributed by Buffalo 8, aspires to bring comfort and hope to audiences around the world. Streaming on Amazon Video, Vudu, and other platforms, directed by Gev Miron, featuring poet/philosopher/author, Noah benShea and music composed by Grammy-award winner, Sharon Farber, the film was shot in Israel, Denmark, South Korea and Los Angeles. www.jacobthebaker.com Wendy wrote Dorfman in Love, which was produced by Leonard Hill Films and starred Elliott Gould, Sara Rue and Haaz Sleiman, and won Best Film at the Hollywood International Film Festival and Marbella International Film Festival and Best Comedy at the Los Angeles and Miami Jewish Film Festivals. The film has received an average of four and a half stars on Amazon. Wendy has developed film projects for Barbra Streisand’s Barwood Productions and has also developed films for Producer Laura Ziskin at Touchstone Pictures and Director/Producer John Hughes at Universal Pictures.

TELEVISION CREDITS: Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the Golden Globe and ASCAP award-winning ABC series, Anything but Love, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and the late great Richard Lewis. Wendy was also on the writing/producing staffs of Robin Williams’ Mork & Mindy and Jane Fonda’s 9 to 5 and wrote a breakthrough episode for The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, where Molly falls for a Hasidic Jew. Wendy also developed television projects for Lifetime and Paul Reiser’s Nuance Productions.

PRODUCING CREDITS: In 2023, Wendy and Producer Genie Benson co-founded the non-profit production company Arts for Change, which creates, develops, produces, and supports plays, films, dance, music and literature to encourage a fairer and kinder world. Their first project is producing the schools and stages West Coast tour of SURVIVORS. Their second project is co-producing with TEEV Events, the concert/video experience, HEROES, created and performed by beloved Israeli music artist, Gilad Segev. Learn more at ARTS FOR CHANGE!

Wendy serves on the Board of Directors of the award-winning Skylight Theatre Company in Los Angeles, the Outreach Committee of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre, and the Honorary Committee of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. She lives in Santa Barbara with her husband and favorite male writer, Dennis Koenig and their feline buddy, Buddy.

Learn more about Wendy at www.wendykout.com

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