Courtney Wetzel
Courtney Wetzel is a Brooklyn-based creator, director, collaborator
and an avid supporter of new scripts and writers.
Coming Soon
Radio Romance
Join Courtney, Morgan McGuire, and Meghan Jones on Clubhouse for live scripted readings, excerpts from upcoming releases, and seriously sexy serials.
Recent
Writer, Director
A Ladies Guide to Scoundrels
by Maya Rodale and Courtney Wetzel
Featuring Morgan McGuire, John Concado, Meghan Jones, Peter Collier, Alice Kremelberg, Max Woertendyke, and Kim Berrios Lin
In Gilded Age New York, Cora Compton and her friends publish a column to expose Manhattan's ineligible bachelors. But one of them, Sam Prescott--Mr. One and Done--is determined to prove there’s nothing ineligible about him!
💕 Enemies to lovers + snappy banter
💕 Crusading heroine + her lady besties
💕 A swoon-worthy hero + happy ever after
Producer, Writer, Director
Audio Excerpt:
An Heiress to Remember
by Maya Rodale
Script by Maya Rodale, Meghan Jones, and Courtney Wetzel
Directed by Courtney Wetzel
Performed by Meghan Jones and Ryan Blackwell
Edited by Jonathan Arthur Ashley
Director
The Motherf*ckin' Hat Plays
produced by
Labyrinth Theater Company
Rachel's Meeting by Charles Goforth
featuring Margaret Ladd and Carrie Braver
Producer, Director
Ecstatically, Ekphrastically Yours
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists' Coalition
Producer Courtney Wetzel and Word Cabaret commission writers to create original written pieces in response to visual art. Live art tours feature the original writings performed in the gallery that inspired them.
Dramaturg, Director, Associate Director
Beauteous
by Craig "Mums" Grant
Developed at Labyrinth Theater and Cherry Lane Theater
Co-Produced by MoMA PopRally and the Andrew Freedman Home
Trapper
by Meghan Jones
directed by Courtney Wetzel
Celebrating The Shelter’s ten years of supporting artists and creating powerful productions, Shelter X is a week of workshops, readings, and festivals written, directed, and acted by Shelter artists.
The Accident
Director
Award winning The Accident by Dipti Bramhandkar had its world premiere at the Frigid Festival NYC.
Burn It Down
Member
A scrappy, collaborative, learn-by-doing-film collective.
Courtney is a member of the workshop and production wings, and has taken on roles including first AD, editor and director.
Solar
Short Film
Supported Producer Jean Goto and Director Mark Cheng on their ambitious and funny short.
About
Courtney Wetzel is a director, writer, collaborator and avid supporter of new plays and writers. Recent credits include: A Ladies' Guide to Scoundrels (Maya Rodale and Courtney Wetzel, Clubhouse), Beauteous (Craig muMs Grant; Andrew Freedman Home, MoMA), Gee I Hope You Have Fun at My Mom’s Death (Bree O’Connor; Playful Substance), Trapper (Meghan Jones; The Shelter), and The Accident (Dipti Bramhandkar; Frigid Festival, The Kraine Theater). She is a member of Burn It Down and The Farm Theater's Director's Roundtable.
