Wanda is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice and teaching incorporate theater, dance, puppetry, and sound, with a focus on ensemble building and collaboratively created performance.

Her teaching specializations include movement, acting, Viewpoints, composition, and site-specific performance. She has taught, directed, and choreographed for Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Bowdoin College, Northeastern University, Marlboro College, Clark University, and Stonehill College. She was the founding director of the BFA in Contemporary theater at Boston Conservatory from 2014 to 2017.

She holds a Ph.D. from Tufts University, where her research and practice centered on puppetry and masked performance, an M.A. in theater (playwriting focus) from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. in film studies from Wesleyan University. Her performance projects have appeared in theaters, galleries, parks, and abandoned buildings throughout New England, and she has collaborated with Theatre KAPOW, the Revolving Museum, the Yellow Springs Theater Company, Artists for World Peace, Another Country, Chamber Theatre Productions, Babes with Blades, Chicago Women’s Theatre Alliance, and others. As a cofounder of Two Roads Performance Projects, she coproduced and curated the award-winning site-specific dance festival Dance in the Fells, and created community-engaged works across a wide range of media.

She is an alumna of the Jacob’s Pillow Choreographer/Director Lab and a recipient of a Green Street Studios Emerging Artist Award. She was a longtime dancer and collaborator with Daniel McCusker Dance Projects and Brian Crabtree/Crabtree Carabetta Collective, and a dancer/puppeteer with Penny Benson. Her current sound work focuses on immersive sound installations (Sound on Mystic, Umbrella Art Center Art Ramble) and audio storytelling (Audioflux.)