Leah Nanako Winkler is from Kamakura, Japan, and Lexington, Kentucky. Her plays include KENTUCKY (2015 Kilroys List, World Premiere with EST & Page 73), DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK (TerraNova Collective dir. Kip Fagan, 2014, and 2015 Kilroys honorable mention), THE INTERNET (Incubator Arts Project), HAPPY DANCE DANCE PRINCESS SHOW (The Brick), DOUBLE SUICIDE AT UENO PARK!!! (35th Marathon of One-Act Plays at Ensemble Studio Theatre), TWO MILE HOLLOW, THIRTY-SIX, COPE, and DIVERSITY AWARENESS PICNIC. With playwright Teddy Nicholas, she co-wrote FLYING SNAKES IN 3-D!!!, which enjoyed performances in 2011-2012 at Ars Nova (ANT Fest), the Brick Theater (mainstage), and the New Ohio Theatre (Ice Factory 2012).
Leah’s work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, the Bushwick Starr, and the Flea Theatre, as well as venues in Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Florida. She has performed short experimental work all throughout the city at places like Little Theatre at Dixon Place, Prelude Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, and more. She is a current member of Youngblood and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Playwrights Group, an alumnus of Terra Nova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwright Group, an affiliated artist at New Georges, a 2013 Playwright in Residence with the New Group/Urban Arts Initiative, a two time recipient of the NYU’s A/P/A commission for researching and writing about hapaidentity, and one of her essays was a part of the exhibition "Visible & Invisible" at the Japanese American National Museum in 2013. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Brooklyn College.
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