Biography
Wyn Alyse Thomas (she/her), a writer, actor, director, and producer from Buffalo Grove, IL, is ecstatic that her play Write Their Wrongs is a part of #ENOUGH! Her play Scared (Winner of the IHRAF Young Playwrights Festival, 2nd Place Nuevas Voces Festival) was honored as a finalist for #ENOUGH in 2021, and she served on the project’s teen advisory council in 2022. Her other playwriting credits include Stand. Up. Hit! (Winner: the Blank’s 30th Annual Young Playwrights Festival), How to Write a Musical: The Musical, (Semifinalist: the Blank's 28th Annual Young Playwrights Festival), Beautiful Daughter, (1st Place Drama: UWW Creative Writing Festival), Naomi and Ruth: A New Musical, (Semifinalist, The Growing Stage’s YPF), and More Than 21 (Finalist: the Light Youth Festival). Other recent theatrical credits include producing her high school’s 24 Hour Theatre Project benefiting world and local hunger, playing Squidward in The Spongebob Musical, and playing Kristine in A Chorus Line. During high school, Wyn was President of Scripts Studio Playwriting Club, Captain of the Failed Presidential Candidates Improv Troupe, and an International Honors Thespian. She plans to study theatre and non-profit management in college. Instagram: @wynstagram03
