Tracy Wells has loved seeing stories come to life onstage
for as long as she can remember. In high school, she was able to tread the
boards herself in a few starring roles in her drama department. Alas, like her character in A Chorus Line,
Kristine, she couldn’t really sing, so she learned the value of a great nonmusical
script and the way that a play can touch the lives of an audience through the
writers’ words and what the actor brings to the stage. It wasn’t until years
later that Wells tried her hand at writing. Her husband, Eric, is a middle-school and high-school theatre director,
and he needed large-cast plays to use with his students. After writing an
adaptation of O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi, Wells decided to send it
in for publication. Thus, a new career in playwriting was born. Wells now has
more than 150 published plays with several publishers, and her plays have been
produced in all 50 states as well as internationally. In addition to her work
for schools and community theatres, Wells writes Christian plays and skits and
is a writer for the Christian comedy duo The Skit Guys. Wells continues to
write plays for the youth and Christian market and resides with her husband and
two children in Metro Detroit.
