Judith Leora
P L A Y W R I G H T
"I’m continuously obsessed with the intersection between sex, money and religion in this country..."
...rollicking entertainment that addresses the political climate from a fiercely feminist perspective.
“Show Pony” is fantastically relatable and sharply, warmly and lastingly brilliant. Its characters resonate in important and memorable ways that rise above cheap confrontational maneuvers giving us heroines with nerve and courage and humor…just the kind we all need right now.
The writing is very, very clever, but the conversations still feel natural, authentic and they actually go somewhere wonderfully genuine."
(L-R) Elle Vernee, Sionne Elise, Lizzy Kimball, Bianca Lemaire, and Krystel Roche
(L-R) Bianca Lemaire, Krystel Roche, and Sionne Elise,
Playwright
STAGED READINGS
Showpony (upcoming) Lone Star Theater
We Have No More Fucking Patience Genderfucked Madness/Mariah MacCarthy/Brick
Literally a Bowl of Shit Racial Madness featuring Neil LaBute/Atlantic 2
The X and the Y New Works readings/Bristol Valley Theatre
The Cookie Fight Last Frontier Theatre Conference/Valdez, AK (2015)
We Smell Their Skin “Madness” Madness/Cherry Lane Theatre
Programmed for What Werewolf Madness/EST
Fuck the Swordsman Radical Bias Madness
What the Fuck is Your Life Love & Time Travel Madness/Peter J. Sharp
Dox Box Pox Double Rhyming Madness/TheatreLab
One of the Good Guys Identity at the Intersections/EST
I’ve Been to Vegas Globalization Madness/IATI
Elijah (full length) Lone Star Theatre
Promise Me You’ll Go to Hawaii Time & Space Madness (Erik Ehn)/T. Schreiber
Bedbugs Texas One-Acts/Lone Star Theatre
Hot Dog Eating People Outsiders Madness/Urban Stages
The Second Train Light at the End of the Tunnel Madness/HERE
The Last Doughnut Miracles Madness/EST
PRODUCTIONS
Gideon (upcoming) Planet Connections Festival (June 2016)
The Cookie Fight (upcoming) Bristol Valley Theatre (August 2016)
Burn, You Glorious Bastard, Burn Lone Star Theatre (May 2015)
But, It’s Artisanal Brain Melt Consortium (May 2015)
Where We Ended Up Sticky (play series) (March 2015)
One-Minute Play Festival (Indie Theatre Edition) New Ohio Theatre, NYC (Feb 2015)
Weird About the Baby/The Icon Plays Ego Actus Productions (Nov 2014)
Gideon UMass/Lowell (April 2013)/commission
Fumes (Film) Michael Markham, Director
Hello Kitty Plates Great Unknowns Showcase (Feb 2013)
My Uterus Musical Detention (ESPA), Sept 2012
Promise Keepers ESPA Detention, April 2012
Disgusting Awfulness Have Another Bar/Play Crawl, Feb 2012
One Minute Play Festival (3 plays) Dominic D’Andrea, ESPA
Detention, Oct. 2011
Prison Chair Have Another, A Bar/Play Crawl, June 2011
Lizard-brain ESPA Detention, Feb 2011
Right of Way ESPA Detention, April 2011
Biography
JUDITH LEORA began her career
writing sketch, animation, television pilots and
screenplays. Judith is a Founding Member and
Managing Director of New York Madness. She
is a Robert Askins Fellow with the Lone Star Theatre
(link below) and a founding member and Executive
Director of NY Madness, a theatre company in
NYC (Kraine Theater) now in its’ eighth season.
Productions: Showpony (Victory Theatre, Burbank,
CA, Sept 2018) Elijah (Bristol Valley Thatre, 2017)
Gideon (Ego Actus/Paradise Theatre, NYC, 2016),
The Cookie Fight (Bristol Valley Theatre, 2016),
Weird About the Baby/Icon Plays (Ego Actus Productions/NYC).
Recent readings: Showpony (LRS, The Blank Theatre; Next Stage Festival, Capital Rep; Lone Star Theatre) The X and the Y (Bristol Valley Theatre Reading Series), The Cookie Fight (Last Frontier Theatre Conference), Heart-Shaped Uterus (MadLab Readings, New York Madness). Robert Askins Playwriting Fellow/Lone Star Theatre; Elijah (Semi-finalist, O’Neill). Webseries #GoingHomeless currently in post-production. Many, many short plays with NY Madness, Sticky, One Minute Play Festival (6x), Pussyfest, brain melt consortium.
In the Press and on the Web
I’m continuously obsessed with the intersection between sex, money and religion in this country...
Judith Leora,
I love theatre because I’m thrilled when I hear the truth......there’s something exhilarating about being in the same room with the performer when you hear it. I don’t get that same connection in other mediums.
Cecilia Copeland, Neil LaBute, & Judith Leora
Racial Madness
Judith Leora,
New York Madness
In the Press and on the Web
I’m continuously obsessed with the intersection between sex, money and religion in this country...
Judith Leora,
I love theatre because I’m thrilled when I hear the truth......there’s something exhilarating about being in the same room with the performer when you hear it. I don’t get that same connection in other mediums.
Judith Leora,
New York Madness
Cecilia Copeland, Neil LaBute, & Judith Leora
Racial Madness
In the Press and on the Web
I’m continuously obsessed with the intersection between sex, money and religion in this country...
Judith Leora,
I love theatre because I’m thrilled when I hear the truth......there’s something exhilarating about being in the same room with the performer when you hear it. I don’t get that same connection in other mediums.
Cecilia Copeland, Neil LaBute, & Judith Leora
Racial Madness
Judith Leora,
New York Madness
In the Press and on the Web
I love theatre because I’m thrilled when I hear the truth......there’s something exhilarating about being in the same room with the performer when you hear it. I don’t get that same connection in other mediums.
Cecilia Copeland, Neil LaBute, & Judith Leora
Racial Madness
Judith Leora,
New York Madness
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