Leigh Fondakowski

Leigh Fondakowski was the head writer of The Laramie Project, co-writer of Laramie: Ten Years Later, and an Emmy Nominated co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of The Laramie Project with HBO Films. Leigh’s other original plays include, I Think I Like Girls, The People's Temple, SPILL, and Casa Cushman. Leigh has directed these original plays at American Theater Company, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Encore Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theater, Swine Palace, TimeLine Theater, and Z Space Studio. Leigh is a recipient of the Glickman Award for Best New Play for The People’s Temple, a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a 2009 MacDowell fellow, a 2010 Imagine Fund Visiting Chair at the University of Minnesota, a 2017 Drama League Fellow, a 2018 recipient of The National Endowment of the Arts Residency for Collaborative Teams at Yaddo, and a long time member of Tectonic Theater Project. Leigh is the author of the creative non-fiction book, Stories from Jonestown, which is being adapted to television with Boldly Go Films. Leigh is the creator and host of the Frequency Machine Studio podcast, Feminist Files, starring Jodie Foster, and is the current Chair of Tectonic Theater Project’s Moment Work Institute.