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 40 productions; and directed Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood, and Caridad Svich’s Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues. In spring of 2010 she will co-direct Macbeth with colleague Drew Vidal.

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 a 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 articles "Researching the Potential of Merging Suzuki's Method of Actor Training with Western Vocal Pedagogy: an Interview with Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson" and “The Disconnect Between Actor and Text” can be found in the Voice and Speech Teachers Association (VASTA) journals entitled, Shakespeare Around the Globe and The Moving Voice.

As an actress/singer, Wendy has worked professionally on stages across the country. Recent credits include: the Daughter in The Olive Grove, 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).