3433 E. Edgemont Street
Tucson AZ 85716
lesliepowell7346@gmail.com
978 270 2106
Leslie Kay Powell’s plays have been read and produced throughout the U.S. and in Toronto, Canada as a part of the InspiraTO Festival. Before moving to Tucson, Arizona, Ms. Powell was a long-time resident of Newburyport, Massachusetts where she co-founded with Hailey Klein “Writers & Actor, Ink,” a development workshop for playwrights and “Random Acts,” a play-in-a day festival. She also co-founded with Marc Clopton and Ron Pullins, North Shore Readers Theatre Collaborative which nurtured and developed new plays for over ten years. She’s happy to report she continues her work to support new plays and playwrights in the desert.
Plays
Alone at Last, Ten-minute play
Silver Theater Productions, Firehouse Center for the arts, Newburyport MA, March 2025
Heart-Land A full-length play
Aria Creative Productions, Offical Selection, Stage Reading, San Antonio, TX, July 2022
Baby Ghost A full-length play
Scottsdale Desert Stage Theater, Scottsdale AZ, January 2024
Take That Thing Off, Ten-Minute play
Actors Lab of Santa Fe, Winner, Zoom play, Santa Fe NM, July 2021, YouTube, go here.
Pass the Salt. Ten-minute play
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Reading. New Works Festival, Newburyport MA January 2025
Crossroads Ten-minute play
Cabaret Theatre, Theater of Music and Art, Old Pueblo Playwrights, New Works Festival. Staged Reading, Tucson AZ February 2025
Free, One Act Play,
Community Players, Winner, Production, Tucson AZ, July 2016
The ‘A’ Word, Full length
Hormel Festival of New Plays, Phoenix Theater, Stage Reading, May 2016, Phoenix AZ
Bridge Theatre, Staged Reading, Phoenix AZ October 2017
Last Frontier Theater Conf, Staged Reading, as The ‘A’ Word. June 2012.
Portrait of a Radical, Monologue
Actors Studio of Newburyport, Production, Women’s History Festival, Zoom, March 2021
All the Way to Chattanooga: A Ten-Minute Play
Image Theater, Fem Noire Festival, Production, Lowell MA 2012
Our Voices Together Festival, Staged reading, Boston MA, April 2009
Universal Theatre, Production, Provincetown, MA, January 2009
Enough: A monologue
Boston Playwrights Threatre Swan Day Festival, Production, Boston MA, April 2009
Surprise: A monologue
Last Frontier Theater Conference, Staged Reading, Valdez AK, June 2012
Soldier Boy: A Ten-Minute Play
New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Proudction, Newburyport MA, Nov 2010
Boston Theatre Marathon, Produced, May, 2009
Fall Shorts, Glouceester MA, Produced, Oct 2009
Mrs. McAlaster’s Plot, co-written with Ron Pullins
15 Minute Festival, Produced, August, 2002, Finalist, Belfast ME
Mill City Minutes, Image Theater, Lowell, MA, Production, May, 2006
American Globe Theater, xTurnip Festival, Image Theater, Produced, Spring 2008
Movie Mogul in His Mama’s Muumuu, co-written with Ron Pullins
Belfast ME 15-Minute Festival, Staged Reading, Runner Up, June, 2003.
Five Sleazy Pieces, Short play review, Player’s Ring, Portsmouth NH, Produced, July, 2007
Dom, Ten-minute Play
F.U.D.G.E. Festival, Watertown MA, Produced, June 2012
The Movie Mogul, a full-length play, Co-written with Ron Pullins
Firehouse New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport MA, Jan 2003
New England Fringe Festival, Production, Boston MA, September 2008
The Actors Studio of Newburyport, Production, Newburyport MA,October 2008
Fringe Festival, Tucson, AZ January 2015, winner, best comedy
The Way Life Should be: A Full Length Drama
The Actors Studio of Newburyport, Workshop Production, Newburyport MA, Sept 2012
Staged Reading, New Works Festival, Newburyport MA, 2004
Old Pueblo Playwrights New Works Festival Tucson, Arizona 2005.
Short listed for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2006.
Your Precious Word a ten-minute play
Firehouse Center for the Arts, New Works Festival, Proudced, Newburyport MA, 2004
Image Theatre, Mill City Minutes, Production, September 2006.
Nailed: Ten-Minute Play, co-written with Ron Pullins
Old Pueblo Playrights New Works Festival, Tucson AZ, Production. Jan 2007.
Backfire
Boston Theater Marathon, production, Boston MA, May 2011
Published in Boston Theater Marathon Anthology. 2011
Inspirato Festival, Produced, Toronto Canada, May 2012
Last Frontier Theater Conference, Play Slam, Valdez AK, June 2013
The Other Woman
Last Frontier Theater Conference, Staged Reading, Valdez, AK, June 2013
Take Me In: A full-length drama
Footlights Theatre, Staged Reading, Jamaica Plain MA, July 2010
New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport MA, Jan 2003
The End, tem-minute play
Girl Play, Women’s Theater Project, staged reading, Ft Lauderdale FL June 2014
Fem Noire Festival, Image theater, Lowell MA Production, 2011.
Alone At Last, tem-minute play
Play in A Day Showcase, Unscrewed Theatre, Old Pueblo Playwrights, staged reading, Nov 2014
Actors Studio of Newburyport. Production, March 2013Newburyport, MA.
Publication
Benediction for a Murder. Zoetrope, a short story
Stuffed, a poem. Kyso Journal
poem Oasis, Journal, Turquoise Sofa.
Food and Other Enemies, Stories of Consuming Desire, anthology. Essex Publishing, editor and contributor.
Conferences
Advanced Playwrighting Intensive, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Summer 2007.
Last Frontier Playwrighting Conference, 2012, 2013.
Other Theater Experiences
North Shore Readers Collaborative Theater co-founder with Ron Pullins and Marc Clopton. A concert reading series for the development of new plays. Ongoing.
Writers and Actors, INK, co-founded with Hailey Klein, for the incubation of new plays where writers and actors gather cold read and critique new plays in development. Actors Studio, Newburyport. Ongoing.
Random Acts, co-founded with Hailey Klein, a play-in-a-day festival, 2001, Newburyport, MA.
Associations and memberships
Dramatists Guild, Associate member