McCormick, Wanda

Wanda_McCormickWanda McCormick was elected a Theatrical member on 6 November 2015. Wanda is a playwright, writer, actress, photographer and interior decorator. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, The New York Press Club, The Players, and the Episcopal Actors’ Guild.

Highly creative, Wanda’s career started in radio broadcasting where she excelled in advertising sales, copy writing, creating promotions, marketing, and management.  Her broadcast experience included work as an on-air personality and in voice-overs.  Broadcasting led her to WMAL.  Her love of NYC, photography and writing inspired her to create Readio.com an online NYC magazine in 1998, pioneering the way as the first online member of The New York Press Club.  Many of her photographs on Readio 1998-2007 are licensed internationally for books, book covers, movies, museums, etc.  Wanda’s photos of red carpets for the Tony Awards, Tribeca Film Festival and major NYC events include celebrity photographs of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Donald Trump, Will Smith, Lauren Bacall, Tony Bennett, Hugh Grant, Nelson Mandela, Whoopi Goldberg, the Olsen Twins, Liza Minelli, Andrew Cuomo, Alicia Keys, Bill Clinton, David Bowie, Michael Bloomberg, Sheryl Crow, Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams, Hillary Clinton, Kristin Chenoweth, and hundreds more.  She created and cast on Readio one of the first ever online soap operas, which she wrote daily for seven years.  Wanda studied interior design at the New York School of Interior Design, and studied acting at HB Studios.  She combined her love of theater and prolific writing skills with her endless creativity becoming a playwright at Writers at The Players.  A few of the titles of Wanda’s full length original comedies include America’s Chosen, American Royalty, American Heritage, American Rx, One Life that Matters, The Destiny Spinner, A Red Hot Dilemma, and many more.