Leah is a Brooklyn-based playwright, performer, and producer originally from Montreal. Her website’s not really up to date, but her bio is, and that’s worth something.

Leah is one half of noise theatre duo laialeah with Eulàlia Comas. Laia and Leah also co-run the performance venue box machine. Additionally, Leah is Director of Promotion and Documentation for the CATCH Performance Series.

Recent works: MOBILE WASH FEMALE LOCKER ROOM (co-creator and performer; box machine), Cankersore Paradise (playwright; Columbia University), Gutbelly (playwright; Columbia, Vino Theatre), Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure (producer; The Bushwick Starr), Time Signatures (performer; Exponential Festival at Brooklyn ArtHaus), The Philosophy of Wrong (performer; LifeWorld), 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), watching you watching me watching you (co-creator and performer; The Tank), Warm Science (co-creator and performer; The Brick).

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 Retreat.

Additional credits: The Chain, Soho Playhouse, Citizen Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, SUNY Purchase, 938 Collective, Round the Bend, We Who Wander.

Leah has an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

She is a fan of the unpleasant and absurd.

@leah.annia