WENDY KNOX is Artistic Director of Frank Theatre in Minneapolis, where she has directed over 45 productions since founding the theatre in 1989. Among the works she has directed and produced are an original adaptation of Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS, Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE, Carr's BY THE BOG OF CATS and McDonagh's THE PILLOWMAN (presented by the Guthrie Theater), the premieres of THE WOMEN OF TROY (company adaptation of Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN and HECUBA, featuring a blues-based score by composer Marya Hart),and Carson Kreitzer's THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER.
Other Frank productions include Shakespeare's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Brecht's THE THREEPENNY OPERA and THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, Blitzstein's THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, Kreitzer's SELF DEFENSE, or death of some salesmen Judith Thompson's PERPECT PIE, Caryl Churchill's TOP GIRLS and MAD FOREST, and Naomi Wallace's THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK.

Knox has worked extensively as a freelance director. She recently directed David Sedaris' SANTALAND DIARIES in a sold-out production at Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR), following a successful staging the previous year at Syracuse Stage (Syracuse, NY). At the Guthrie Theatre, she directed the sold-out production of LYSISTRATA. In the Twin Cities, her work has been seen at the Southern Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, Park Square Theatre, the Playwrights' Center, Children's Theatre Company, Red Eye Collaboration, Illusion Theatre, the now defunct Cricket, Northern Sign (performed in English and American Sign language simultaneously) and At the Foot of the Mountain theatre. Regional credits include the Annex Theatre in Seattle, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Vermont Ensemble Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Theatre L'Homme Dieu, and St. Croix Festival Theatre. In Finland, she directed an original work, HUKKA VIIVA (LOST LINE) for the Theatre Academy of Finland. She also directed the short film entitled "Truth."

She has served on the faculty and as a guest director at Hamline University, Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, Grinnell College, Augsburg College, the University of Northern Iowa, North Hennepin Community College, South High School and the Perpich Center for Arts Education. For seven years, she worked as a teaching artist in Children's Theatre Company's Neighborhood Bridges program, a partnership with the Minneapolis Public Schools that involves weekly in-classroom sessions with 4th graders, using storytelling, theatre and writing to teach critical literacy. She served as chair of the Kulture Klub Collaborative, an arts-based organization that connects homeless teens with artists.

Knox recently received her second McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship recognizing outstanding work by professional theatre artists. She has also received two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowships, two Jerome Travel and Study Grants and two Diverse Visions grants from Intermedia Arts. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Finland where she worked as an assistant to the Artistic Director of Helsinki City Theatre, and she received a specialist research grant from the Finnish Ministry of Education to research new theatrical forms in that country. She holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Washington (Seattle), and a B.A. from Grinnell College.