Henery Wyand is a Helen Hayes Award Nominated DC based Director, Writer and Educator originally from Beacon, NY. Henery is particularly interested in new and contemporary works that challenges various institutionalized systems placed within society and theatre. Much of his work focuses on challenging the extremes, queerness, blackness, gender expression, exploration of ritual, emotional vulnerability, and surrealism.
Henery completed a Directing Fellow at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Some past Directing credits include Blue Door By Tanya Barfield (Perisphere Theater) h.b. floating palace by Rahul Makwana, Alice in Wonderland (Adirondack Theatre Festival), a multitude of new and contemporary work at the National Theater Institute including: The Colby Sisters by Adam Bock, The Successful Life of 3 by Maria Irene Fornes, Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, Desdomona by Paula Vogel, Uncle Vanya by Checkov, Orestes by Anne Carson, Baby Carrot by Haruka Ueda, Boundaries That Divide by Cherokee Rose Collier and more new and devised work, Spring Awakening, Untitled Project of Color, White is Not the Default by Alexandria Smalls, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Vassar) and Not… Enough Oxygen (Powerhouse). Some Assistant Directing credits include Mrs. Warren Profession directed by David Staller (Off-Broadway), Calling All Kates by Emily Goodson and Jeremy Schonfeld, directed by Chad Rabinovitz, The Enlightenment of Percival Von Schmootz by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, directed by Scott Weinstein, Sequence by Arun Lakra, directed by Marshall Pailet, and Beau by Douglas Lyons and Ethan D. Pakchar, directed by Michael Wilson. As a writer he is currently developing his plays coon and Smoking Hot Arroz and Gandules.
He is a graduate from Vassar College with a B.A. in Drama, additionally he studied as an Advanced Director at the National Theater Institute and a Directing Apprentice at the Powerhouse Theater Training Program. He interned at various theater companies such as MCC Theater and the Adirondack Theatre Festival. He previously was a Teaching Artist with Imagination Stage and Shakespeare Theatre Company. He currently works in the Development Department at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.