Leah is a Brooklyn-based playwright, performer, producer, and curator originally from Montreal.

Leah is one half of noise theatre duo laialeah with Eulàlia Comas. Laia and Leah also co-run the DIY performance venue box machine.

Additionally, Leah is Director of Promotion and Documentation for the CATCH Performance Series and associate producer for Honigman & Sons.

Select works: Baby Butcher Choke For Free (co-creator and performer; The Brick); MOBILE WASH FEMALE LOCKER ROOM(co-creator and performer; box machine), Cankersore Paradise (playwright; Columbia University), Gutbelly (playwright; Columbia, Vino Theatre), leah plante-wiener & leigh honigman present (curator and producer; Target Margin, Box of Moonlight), showbabies (curator and producer; The Brick), Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure (producer; The Bushwick Starr), The Philosophy of Wrong (performer; Life World), REPLICATION BABY (co-creator and performer; CATCH Takes the Hudson at PS 21), the electrologist (co-creator and performer; CATCH 76 at the Chocolate Factory, The Tank).

Her plays have been selected for the Road Theatre’s Summer Playwrights Festival (CA), the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the American Theatre Fresh Ink reading series (FL). She has participated in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the La MaMa Umbria Playwrights’ Retreat, and the CATCH Performance Series PS 21 Residency.

Leah has an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

She is a fan of the unpleasant and absurd.

@leah.annia