WENDY SALKIND
Professor

Wendy Salkind is an actor who is drawn to the works of writers of heightened and poetic language. Her research has recently focused on the creation of performance pieces from the prose texts of Gertrude Stein. She presented her performed narration of Stein’s IDA at Rep Stage in Columbia, Maryland, and at national conferences and universities. Salkind is known for her performances in the short plays of Samuel Beckett at international Beckett festivals. For ten years she was an Associate Artist with the Maryland Stage Company (MSC), a professional theatre company in Baltimore. With the MSC she performed at Center Stage in the works of Moliere, Shakespeare, Guare and Chekov and at Theatre Project in Pinter. She also performed narration with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in Walton’s Façade and she played lead roles in two award winning independent films, Holy Water and Cleave. She recently performed Anna Rubin’s composition, “And Everything Goes Bee!” for voice and amplified violin in Women’s Work 2010, at the Greenwich House, NY. Salkind is the Presidential Teaching Professor for 2010-2013 and an Associate Professor in the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Theatre where she served as department chair for twelve years and where she currently teaches acting and movement.  

B.F.A. Acting, California Institute of the Arts
M.F.A. Acting, University of California, Davis

Contact: salkind@umbc.edu