Wendy Robin Costanzo: Bio

I was born in Pittsburgh, PA on October 17th, 1981. After 13 years there, and a brief 2 year stay in OH, my parents retired and we all headed down to Myrtle Beach, SC. For my first two years of highschool I played varsity tennis, volleyball, and basketball During my junior year I began an internship at the local television station, WPDE NewsChannel 15. I also began doing entertainment reporting on TV 33 Best Of The Beach, a local visitors information station. Around this time I also began writing a monthly column for the entertainment magazine "Yikes!". Shortly after that, I was offered a position as the morning show news/weather anchor on WYAK 103.1 fm and Beach 99.5 fm. For a year I worked on the radio from 5 am-9am and then raced to my first class at school. During that year I also was a field reporter for a football radio show that was broadcast on WYAK 103.1 fm. I did interviews with the players and coaches down on the field, while the two main guys fed me questions through an earpiece. I didn't know anything about football (I still don't), so it was kind of fun to try to sound like I knew what I was talking about. The games usually ran from about 7pm-9pm and I was often so exhausted from doing the morning show that day that I would sleep in my car between talk breaks with my radio turned up in case they cut to me.

A fter working both the morning show and football show for a year, I was offered a position at the local Top 40 station, WWXM Mix 97.7. They offered me a position as the weekend air personality. After a few months I started working as the drivetime traffic reporter during the week, as well. After my highschool graduation in 2000. I felt the need to expand my horizons. I got accepted into the #1 broadcasting program in the country at The University of Missouri, but I wanted to stay on the east coast, so I moved to Orlando, FL and enrolled at The University of Central Florida. I began working towards a degree in broadcasting and I started a tv production internship at Nickelodeon on a kid's show called Games and Sports. I was "caught" during a break in shooting one day by one of the producers , messing around with some of the props on the set and was asked to appear on an episode of the show, spinning a basketball during a talk break. After that, I found it hard to go back to just being an intern and after about 10 months of living in FL, I began to grow restless. I became interested in acting, so I made the decision to move to LA. After a few months, I got the oppurtunity to work on a Fox show called 24 . I played an aide to the character "Senator Palmer" (Dennis Haysbert). That enabled me to join the Screen Actors Guild. Click here to see some pictures of me from the show.

F rom there, I made a few other appearances on shows like Comedy Central's Beat The Geeks, Russian Roullette, ABC Family's "Switched", The Style Channel's "Style Court", and a pilot for The WB called "The People vs. Bill Wier", among others. I also began studying with the well known acting coach, Howard Fine. My classmates included, among others, Mike Tyson.
D uring the summer of 2002 I got a small role in the independent feature "M.A.W.", starring Heather Cheney, with David Spade, Kevin Farley, and John Farley. Kevin and John are the brothers of the late comic Chris Farley, and are equally hilarious. Currently I am training with the renowned Groundlings Comedy improvisation group, and directing, writing, and performing in the all girl comedy sketch show "Blondedge", which has played at the Next Stage Theater in Hollywood, and will next be coming to Masquers Cabaret, in Beverly Hills. I'm also occasionally appearing as "Roller Girl" for the nightclub show "Club 1970s" at The El Rey Theater, which was featured on KTLA's tv show "Clubbin" this past June.
O n the weekends, I enjoy teaching a kid's improv class at BB's Kids Acting School. My class there was featured on ABC Family's "Switched" this past summer. I also appear weekly around Los Angeles, at various events, as promotional model for Budweiser.
stay tuned for more!