About me
Leslie is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter. She just graduated from Brooklyn College's Playwriting MFA where she also studied TV writing and screenwriting at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. Her prose has appeared in the New York Times. Plays include Elsewhere (semifinalist, Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator; LaMama Experimental Theater Fellowship, Himan Brown Award), Cul-de-Sac (AFF Secondrounder), and Proverbs of the Mojave (performed at BAM, Sept 2024). She's the recent recipient of the Rona Jaffe Fellowship for creative writing.
Talk to Leslie about all things climate hope and climate grief and finding innovative ways to talk about climate change and improve our collective relationship to the environment. Though her topics are serious, they're never without humor. Her short film, The Astronaut Hour, won numerous awards in 2021 including “Best Short Film,” “Best Screenplay” and “Best Actress” from Manhattan Rep’s Stories Film Festival. (Leslie also acts and has performed at Lincoln Center, St. Ann's Warehouse, with Clubbed Thumb, etc..)
Current obsessions include: Antarctica, the show Ghosts (UK version, no shade to CBS!) VEEP, Mad Men (just did a rewatch), Fin whales, Chappell Roan, Claire Vaye Watkins' I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness.
*Also please someone let her practice her Duolingo French and Spanish IRL.