Wendy Mortimer serves as the Acting Option Coordinator of the BSU Department of Theatre and Dance. She has taught courses in beginning and advanced vocal production, solo performance, audition techniques and repertoire, advanced acting and text analysis focusing on Shakespeare, contemporary Greek translations and historical American realism at BSU, the University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Marymount Manhattan College, and the American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA). At BSU Wendy has served as vocal/text/dialect coach for over 30 productions; acted in the department’s recent productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost and Going to St. Ives; and directed Caridad Svich’s Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues. In fall of 2008 she will direct Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood.

As an actress/singer, Wendy has worked professionally on stages across the country. Recent credits include: Raymonde in A Flea in Her Ear (Clarence Brown Theatre); Judy Denmark in Ruthless! the Musical (Noble Fool Theatricals, Chicago); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Olivia in Twelfth Night (Illinois Shakespeare Festival). Wendy received an MFA from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and is a member of Actor's Equity Association (AEA).

Her area of special interest includes a fusion of extended vocal technique and in-depth text analysis with Eastern based movement training. Wendy received a “National Teaching Award” from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and a “Creative Teaching Grant” from BSU. These awards funded her recent trip to Pretoria, South Africa where she conducted workshops in these same techniques at Tshwane University of Technology with students in both the Musical Theatre and Dramatic Arts departments. Her article "Researching the Potential of Merging Suzuki's Method of Actor Training with Western Vocal Pedagogy: an Interview with Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson" can be found in the Voice and Speech Teachers Association (VASTA) journal entitled, Shakespeare Around the Globe.