CURRENT PROJECT: PLAYWRIGHT IN RESIDENCE
From February through end of April 2019 I'm a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts. Learn more about my long list of projects in progress here!
NEW PLAY ALERT: DOCTOR VOYNICH AND HER CHILDREN
NEW PODCAST ALERT: NEW JEDI READERS
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."
From February through end of April 2019 I'm a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts. Learn more about my long list of projects in progress here!
NEW PLAY ALERT: DOCTOR VOYNICH AND HER CHILDREN
NEW PODCAST ALERT: NEW JEDI READERS
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."
-I have a new play! Doctor Voynich and Her Children is a full-length drama set in the post-Roe v. Wade American Heartland of the 2060s. Read more:
Doctor Rue Voynich and her apprentice Fade travel the American Heartland dispensing herbal medications. Covertly, they perform abortions, which have been illegal since “the Pence days.” Fade tries to help local youth Hannah complete her abortion, using knowledge from an ancient manuscript, before her mother and the sheriff can nail them for the “attempted murder of an unborn person.”
This play about mothers and daughters is poetic, sexy, vulgar, queer, and a little too real.
Doctor Rue Voynich and her apprentice Fade travel the American Heartland dispensing herbal medications. Covertly, they perform abortions, which have been illegal since “the Pence days.” Fade tries to help local youth Hannah complete her abortion, using knowledge from an ancient manuscript, before her mother and the sheriff can nail them for the “attempted murder of an unborn person.”
This play about mothers and daughters is poetic, sexy, vulgar, queer, and a little too real.