Wendy Girard

Wendy Girard, an award-winning actor and producer, began acting in her teens in Washington D.C. as a clown. She performed all of the women's voices for Gallaudet College for the Deaf productions, and acted at The Washington Shakespeare Festival, The Washington Theatre Club, Arena Stage, where she also spent a year doing Spolin Improvisation, and Center Stage in Baltimore, playing mostly leads from the Greeks and Shakespeare to modern writers. She is also an award-winning still photographer and works as a writer, journalist and film reviewer.

Girard grew up in Latin America and studied in Europe. She is a certified Sivananda Yoga and Da Dao Qi Gong instructor, and ordained to teach Zen meditation. She coaches and teaches film acting, method acting, and improvisation privately, at performing arts academies, and abroad.