Directors // Leigh Fondakowski

Leigh Fondakowski was the Head Writer of The Laramie Project and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since 1995. She is an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO. Her latest original play, The People’s Temple, has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theater, The Guthrie Theater, and American Theatre Company, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005.

Another original play, I Think I Like Girls, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate. Other directing credits include: Gerda’s Lieutenant by Ellen Greeves and Bennett Singer (Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts), 3 Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin (San Francisco Playhouse), The Laramie Project (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre), La Voix Humaine by Jean Cocteau (Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh), Agatha by Marguerite Duras (French Alliance, New York), Gwen John adapted from the novel by Jane Warrick (HERE, New York).

Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights and is currently developing a play about 19th century actress Charlotte Cushman with Tectonic Theater Project. She teaches in the Masters in Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University.