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Leslie is a writer and actor. She completed her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2024. Her plays include Elsewhere (semifinalist Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, semifinalist LaMama Experiments in Playwriting) and Cul-de-Sac (AFF second-rounder). She is a recent recipient of the Rona Jaffe Fellowship and Himan Brown award for creative writing. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times and Paste Magazine. Previous residencies include SPACE on Ryder Farm in 2017, 2019, and 2022, and CourCommune in Voulx, France, 2019 and 2023. At Brooklyn College, she also studied screenwriting and TV writing at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.

Previously, Leslie graduated with honors from Fordham University at Lincoln Center where she double majored in Acting & Directing. While at Fordham she traveled to Paris with NYU to study Contemporary French Theatre, participated in the apprenticeship program at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and studied at MXAT in Moscow, Russia. At Fordham and Brooklyn College Leslie studied with Sibyl Kempson, Haruna Lee, Daniel Alexander Jones, George Drance, among others. In her 20’s, Leslie survived leukemia.

Leslie has performed in numerous plays, readings and short films including Stop the Virgens (St. Ann's Warehouse), The Turn of the Screw and Madame de Sade (Columbia Grad). She has also performed with Target Margin Theater & Clubbed Thumb. Leslie wrote, produced and performed in 23-Year-Old Myth as part of Theater for the New City's Dream-Up Festival. Her short film, “The Astronaut Hour” was recognized by the International Independent Film Awards in 2019 and won numerous awards in 2021 including “Best Screenplay” and “Best Actress” from Manhattan Rep’s Stories Film Festival.

You’ve heard Leslie sing with jazz vocalist Allegra Levy and indie band, Noble Kids