wendy corazon

For the USC Stay Connected LA project Wendy presents a 6 week virtual playwriting workshop. Throughout the course of the workshops, participants will learn the fundamentals of playwriting as a tool of empowerment by utilizing one´s own voice to create a restorative healing outlet. The workshops will culminate with an in-person table read of the pieces created during the workshops.

Stay tuned for project updates!

Wendy Corazón is a playwright, poet, and teaching artist impassioned by her life experiences growing up as a daughter of immigrants in a xenophobic community; she is a first generation college graduate and specializes in uplifting the global majority´s voices through restorative justice practices, self empowerment, and healing through writing. She had her writing debut at CASA 0101 through Chicanas, Cholas y Chisme in 2013. Since then, she has had seven short plays produced through CCC including Whatcha Mi Tacuche, Don´t Forget Me, My Father, Dissent, What If, P.C. and Super Doñas. Wendy was a semi-finalist in the Latino Theater Alliance Los Angeles 2018 writing group cohort. In 2019, she also stage managed the most successful production at Casa 0101, Always Running. When she is not pouring her heart into her writing, she is dedicating her time to historically exploited communities, she is currently the Vice President of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council. Wendy earned her Dual Bachelor´s degree in Psychology and Spanish from CSULA in 2007.