My Story
WP Truesdell was a radio brat who grew up in southern Minnesota and northern Illinois. He attended Illinois State University, where he studied theatre and playwriting.
Like many of his classmates, Chicago became his next destination. He was the marketing director with Northlight Theatre and Managing Director for The Orchestra of Illinois before moving to similar positions at Boston's Huntington Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.
As a consultant, Truesdell served several diverse cities including Dallas, Milwaukee, Long Island, and Montgomery AL. Throughout his career in arts communications, he continued writing plays, roughly a half dozen and short stories.
In 2018, he returned to Illinois State to manage the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. With the arrival of COVID, Truesdell took early retirement to be a full-time writer.
In Boston, he studied creative writing under author John V. Higgins, who encouraged him to continue. Several short stories resulted.
In 2008, a stage play entitled Sparts Radio received a favorable production in KC. It became the basis for his first novel, For Love of Art and Ericka, available on Amazon and Lulu.
His pen name, "Truesdell..." was chosen for his maternal grandfather Glenn Truesdell. It is also his official stage name under the Actor's Equity Union, which he joined while a professional actor in Boston.
