Leslie’s plays include Elsewhere (2024 Human Brown Award, Semifinalist Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, LaMaMa’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship, reading at Playwrights Horizons 2024), Cul-de-Sac (Second-rounder, AFF 2024, Rattlestick Semifinalist), Greetings! From the Mojave (performed at BAM in September 2024), and 23 (Theater for the New City). Her first feature, Grand Island, is a quarterfinalist in the WeScreenplay Feature Lab and ISA’s Emerging Screenwriters Drama Competition. Her short, Buena Vista, is a semifinalist in Cascadia Women’s International Film Festival. She earned her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2024.

As an actor, Leslie has performed in numerous plays, readings and short films including Stop the Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse, dir. by Adam Rapp), The Turn of the Screw (Lincoln Center, dir. by Michael Kimmel) and Madame de Sade (Columbia Grad). She has also performed with Target Margin & Clubbed Thumb. She’s appeared in the web series What Next (dir. by Chris Raddatz) and Tales of Toverud (Amsterdam Film Festival & LA Comedy 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. Leslie majored in Acting & Directing at Fordham, and graduated with honors.

You’ve heard Leslie sing backup with indie band, Noble Kids, and jazz singer Allegra Levy. She’s held residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm (2017, 2019, 2022) and CourCommune in Voulx, Fr. (2019, 2023). Her prose has appeared in the New York Times. In her early 20’s, Leslie survived leukemia.

Leslie splits her time between Brooklyn and LA with her partner C.A., rescue dog, and kitten.