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Wendy Overly, MFA Acting/Directing Virginia Commonwealth University, BA Theatre/Dance at Kent State University has taught theatre at Clemson University, Richard Stockton College, Rowan University, Rhode Island College, University of RI, UMASS Boston, Northeastern University and Emerson College. She is a professional actor/director (AEA, SAG-AFTRA) who is currently a resident artist at the Gamm Theatre in RI. Regional and NYC credits include The Waterfront Ensemble, Mettawee River Theater Company, New England Lyric Opera Co., Foundation Theater, Porthouse Theater, Highlands Playhouse, Mill Mountain Theater and The Warehouse. Local directing credits include The Great Gatsby, The Flu Season, Happy Birthday, Wanda June at Burbage Theatre; The Flick, Murder Ballad, Next to Normal, Body Awareness at The Wilbury Theatre Group; Season’s Greetings, Top Girls at The Gamm Theatre. TV/Film acting credits include Polka King, Manchester-By-The-Sea, “Brotherhood”, Infected, Elizabeth Gunness, Hard Luck. Wendy has been dialect coach for over 30 theater productions. In film and TV she has been dialect coach for The Burning Woman (fall 2018) Chappaquiddick, Patriots Day, The Finest Hours, The Surrogates, and Manchester-By-The-Sea, SMILF (pilot) and all three seasons of Showtime’s Brotherhood.

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An ILIAD Comes to Burbage Theatre Co Starring Bill Harley

Burbage Theatre Co follows The One-Act Play that Goes Wrong and the World Premiere of James Lucey's Witching Hour Social Club with a truly unique and exciting production of An Iliad.
Burbage Theatre Co Extends THE ONE ACT PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

Due to demand from audiences, Burbage Theatre Co has announced the extension of The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong!
The Burbage Theatre Company to Hold Auditions for 13th Season

The Burbage Theatre Company will hold in-person auditions for their 13th Season at the Wendy Overly Studio Theatre in Pawtucket, RI. A
Cast & Creative Team Set For THE ONE-ACT PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Burbage Theatre Co.

Burbage Theatre Co. will present THE ONE-ACT PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. Enjoy an 85-minute comedy filled with laughter, chaos, and slapstick humor at the Wendy Overly Studio Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Burbage Theatre Co Sets Five Plays for 13th Season

Burbage Theatre Co's 13th Season, themed Confronting Chaos, will feature five plays. Learn more about the season and see how to purchase tickets.
Photos: First Look at THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT At Burbage Theatre Co.

Burbage Theatre Co concludes their 12th Season with Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat, directed by Trinity Rep company member Jackie Davis, director of last season’s Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti. See photos from the production.
Burbage Theatre Co. Concludes 12th Season with THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT 

After their innovative and acclaimed RI premiere production of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties, Burbage Theatre Co concludes their 12th Season with Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherf**ker with the Hat, directed by Trinity Rep company member Jackie Davis, director of last season's Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti. 
BLKS Comes to Burbage Theatre Co Next Month

After their critically and popularly acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Burbage Theatre Co continues their 12th Season with the RI premiere of Aziza Barnes's BLKS, directed by Burbage Theatre Co resident artist, Catia.
Review: WITCH provokes at Burbage Theater Co

What did our critic think of WITCH at Burbage Theater Co? In the world of WITCH - written by rising playwright Jen Silverman - demons are self-proclaimed 'merchants of hope' for people whose desires and fears have been forged by capitalism and patriarchy. Scratch (Zach Gibb) - a 'junior salesman' who believes earnestly in the merit of his profession - has been roaming the dark corners of an historically indeterminate Edmonton, where he's been collecting souls in exchange for wishes. It's easy work until he meets Elizabeth (MJ Daly), the town outcast who leads him to reconsider the value of the souls he takes and the deals he makes in exchange for them. After all, what's a wish worth in a system that confines our imaginations within its walls? And wouldn't a soul outside these walls be more valuable - and dangerous - than anything we could conceive from within them?
Photos: Burbage Theatre Co Presents Kate Hamill's SENSE & SENSIBILITY

See photos from Burbage Theatre Co's playful adaptation of Jane Austen’s timeless classic Sense & Sensibility.
THE SQUIRRELS Makes New England Premiere in Pawtucket

Burbage continues their 10th season with the topical and “apocalyptic” dark comedy The Squirrels by Robert Askins. Social commentary and the animal kingdom collide in this wickedly funny play set in the hollow of a tree with actors portraying the titular arboreal rodents in full costume.
Photos: First Look at FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS at Burbage Theatre Co

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below.
Burbage Theatre Co. to Present FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS

Burbage bursts into 2022 with the hilarious, irreverent Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball.
EVERYBODY By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to Reopen Burbage Theatre Co

After closing for nearly 18 months, Burbage Theatre Co reopens for Season 10 with live performances and the Rhode Island Premiere of Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Logan Serabian.
Burbage Theatre Co to Present Original Film Adaptation of MACBETH

Burbage Theatre Co hits the big screen with an original feature-length film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Jeff Church. This thrillingly haunting production showcases some of Rhode Island theatre's best talent, captured on film in stunning professional quality.
MACBETH to be Presented at Burbage Theatre Co

Burbage Theatre Co hits the big screen with an original feature-length film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Jeff Church. This spellbinding production will be available FREE to watch both in-person and online.
The Gamm To Delay Season 36 Until Fall 2021

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) announces that it will delay the opening of its Season 36 subscription season until fall 2021. With the previously planned 5-play lineup on hold, the organization will focus its efforts on virtual programming and education initiatives, as well furthering its commitment to becoming a more just, equitable, and inclusive organization.
BWW Review: Searing ADMISSIONS Shines at The Gamm

Joshua Harmon's ADMISSIONS is a play that wants to challenge well-meaning white people to reconsider how they seek to lift up people of color.  That may make it seem like it's a slog, or like it's a bitter pill one should swallow, but thankfully the biting dialogue and exceptional performances all around make this 110 minute play zing by.  Harmon does a great job of raising the stakes for all the players until the tension reaches a satisfying crescendo, but, in the end, the payoff isn't quite as satisfying as it could be. However, that could also be part of the point.
Gamm Presents ADMISSIONS

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) opens the new year with the off-Broadway hit Admissions by playwright Joshua Harmon (Significant Other, Bad Jews). Winner of both the 2018 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for best play, Harmon's newest comedy-drama explores white privilege in education-a topic made even more relevant by the country's headline-making college admissions scandal. Bryn Boice, associate artistic director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, makes her Gamm directorial debut with Admissions. The production features Deb Martin (Maxine Faulk in The Night of the Iguana) and Jim O'Brien (Mr. Mundy in The Night Watch) as husband and wife prep school administrators pushing for racial diversity in the student body. Gamm newcomer Jacob Osborne plays their son, whose Ivy League ambitions expose deep cracks in his parents' progressive values.
BWW Review: YOU GOT OLDER shines at Wilbury Theatre Group

Playwright Clare Barron has a keen eye and a gift for seamlessly blending the mundane and the weird. The Wilbury Theatre Group's stellar production of her 2015 Obie-winning play 'You Got Older' powerfully captures Barron's charming oddball pathos.

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