An established playwright, Wendy Lement has written plays that continue to be produced by theaters across the county. Her plays include Red Swans, Secret Soldiers, Salem’s Daughters, Remember Last Night, Dolphins: The Myth of Persephone, Legend of the Christmas Rose, and Keri Tarr: Cat Detective, based on her children’s book (Breakaway Books 2004). She co-wrote The Cleaner, Woman with the Red Kerchief, Tiger and the Queen, and Sister Play with Minneapolis playwright Firouzeh Mostashari.

In 1992 Lement co-founded Theatre Espresso, which continues to tour with plays she wrote/co-wrote that explore issues of social justice. During her 27-year tenure as Artistic Director, the company received a National Endowment for the Arts award for American Tapestry: Children of the Bread and Roses Strike. Lement also served as Producer of Wheelock Family Theatre, where she established the Emerging Playwrights Program for Boston’s youth. 

Lement created a series of oral history plays with students at Regis College. These plays include Radio Stories, highlighting women in radio in the Roosevelt era; Testimonio, based on the stories of people who fled Central America and human rights workers in the 1970s and 80s; I’ll Be Seeing You about foreign and domestic war brides during WWII; Voicings: The Rosenberg Case, and Six Pairs of Hands, a musical about the triumphs and heartbreaks of members of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association (the play toured to the Blackburn Theatre in Gloucester). 

Lement wrote the introduction to Suzan Zeder’s The Ware Trilogy (Dramatic Publishing 2017), co-authored And Justice for Some: Exploring American Justice through Drama and Theatre (Heinemann 2005) and wrote “Theatre-in-Education as a Catalyst for Civic Dialogue,” for Learning Through Theatre (Routledge 2013). Lement Chaired the Theatre Department at Regis College, and has taught at Emerson College. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Theatre from New York University.