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I MADE A book!

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I've worked with Dr. Angela Farr Schiller and Dr. Lindsey Mantoan to compile The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, a first-of-its-kind anthology. We set out to gather eight trans plays by trans writers with trans characters; it's time for us to tell our own stories. Now, you'll be able to pick it up from Methuen / Bloomsbury in May 2021! Learn more and pre-order it here.

The full play listing, including mine, is as follows:
Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
how to clean your room by j. chavez
She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe

Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
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ABOUT LEANNA
​Leanna Keyes is a playwright & producer based in Memphis, Tennessee and the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Playwright in Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis during spring 2019. Valiant Theatre commissioned her in 2020, which resulted the premiere of Love Serving Love at their annual new works festival in January.

Her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children, an abortion romance family drama, was produced at Uprising Theatre Company in Minneapolis in March 2020). It was going to be produced at Linfield College in Oregon in May, but you can imagine what happened to that idea.

In Chicago, her short play You’re My Person premiered at the Violet Surprise Femmeslash Festival at Otherworld Theatre Company in August 2019. Her play Legal-Tender Loving Care was produced by Fuse Theatre in California in June 2019. In 2018, her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children received collegiate productions at Rhodes College and at Stanford University. Previously produced plays including God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship in 2014 and The Kilogram Play in 2013. She also co-wrote 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.”​

NOTE: Due to the current coronavirus situation, many of my productions have been postponed. Details here.

​PRODUCING
To learn about my fully live digital production company, please visit Transcend Streaming.

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