UPCOMING SHOW: LEGAL-TENDER LOVING CARE @ FUSE THEATRE
My one-act play about trans people falling in love, mistaken identity, and sex work anchors the trans corner of the lineup at this year's "Gender Shorts" festival in Redwood City, California! Read more about the play here and the festival here. It opens June 8th, 2019!
CURRENT PROJECT: BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
I just wrapped up my time as a Playwright in Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis and now I'm working as the production manager for this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival with Playwrights Foundation! It's my fourth year in the role and I'm excited to bring six new plays from draft to staged reading over the course of two and a half weeks. It's a whirlwind, but it's so inspiring.
NEW PLAY ALERT: TWO LADIES OF VERMONT
NEW SHORT PLAY: MOXI & SIRNA
NEW PLAY ALERT: DOCTOR VOYNICH AND HER CHILDREN
About Leanna:
Leanna Keyes is a playwright, producer, and designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tennessee. She works with a variety of Bay Area organizations devoted to the development of new and reimagined plays, including Playwrights Foundation, The Cutting Ball Theater, and Performance Design Acronym. She will be a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis from February through April 2019.
In 2018, her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children received collegiate productions at Rhodes College and at Stanford University, with more productions coming soon. Previously produced plays including God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship in 2014, and Legal-Tender Loving Care and The Kilogram Play in 2013. She also co-wrote the updated The Real World: Stanford with Olivia Haas, which was produced annually from 2015 to 2017.
Her plays have been studied at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, Rhodes College, Linfield College, the University of Kansas, and Western Carolina University. In 2017, her work was featured at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries."
My one-act play about trans people falling in love, mistaken identity, and sex work anchors the trans corner of the lineup at this year's "Gender Shorts" festival in Redwood City, California! Read more about the play here and the festival here. It opens June 8th, 2019!
CURRENT PROJECT: BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
I just wrapped up my time as a Playwright in Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis and now I'm working as the production manager for this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival with Playwrights Foundation! It's my fourth year in the role and I'm excited to bring six new plays from draft to staged reading over the course of two and a half weeks. It's a whirlwind, but it's so inspiring.
NEW PLAY ALERT: TWO LADIES OF VERMONT
NEW SHORT PLAY: MOXI & SIRNA
NEW PLAY ALERT: DOCTOR VOYNICH AND HER CHILDREN
About Leanna:
Leanna Keyes is a playwright, producer, and designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tennessee. She works with a variety of Bay Area organizations devoted to the development of new and reimagined plays, including Playwrights Foundation, The Cutting Ball Theater, and Performance Design Acronym. She will be a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis from February through April 2019.
In 2018, her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children received collegiate productions at Rhodes College and at Stanford University, with more productions coming soon. Previously produced plays including God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship in 2014, and Legal-Tender Loving Care and The Kilogram Play in 2013. She also co-wrote the updated The Real World: Stanford with Olivia Haas, which was produced annually from 2015 to 2017.
Her plays have been studied at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, Rhodes College, Linfield College, the University of Kansas, and Western Carolina University. In 2017, her work was featured at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries."