Wendi Loomis

 Wendi Loomis received a Bachelor of Arts in Acting, Playwriting, & Musical Theatre from Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Since 1997 she has been a performance educator for Poetry Alive! based in Asheville, NC. She has also worked with the Greenville and Asheville Arts Integration programs since 2004. She has been showcased performing her own poetry at a wide variety of events and venues across the country. Since moving to North Carolina she has performed with Tryon Little Theatre, Diana Wortham Theatre, and ACT's 35below in addition to playing & singing traditional jazz with some of her favorite Rhythm Rascals and performing acts of dancing poetry with the ragtime blues band The Screaming J's. Currently Wendi performs with The Red Hot Sugar Babies singing roaring 20's hot jazz & sultry blues, The Gypsy Guitars playing flute & clarinet as well as adding vocals to a variety of gypsy and latin jazz, and as a solo artist with ukulele singing her original songs & rock covers.