Leslie Ishii

Leslie Ishii

(she/her/hers)

Production Dramaturg, Manahatta

In two seasons at OSF: API 2x2 New Works Lab (founder/producer); FAIR Assistant director (The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; A Midsummer Night’s Dream). 

Other theatres: Regional: Director: We Hold These Truths (Perseverance Theatre); Takarazuka!!!, Crimes of the Heart, Dawn’s Light: The Gordon Hirabayashi Story, Taking Flight: The Katherine Cheung Story (East West Players); 99 Histories (Artists At Play); Clybourne Park (University of California, Irvine); Dramatic Writing MFA Y2 New Works Festivals (University of Southern California); California State University, Los Angeles (guest directing, 2018); Front and Center Program, different words for the same thing, partnering Culver City High School and the Center Theatre Group; Actor, Director (Northwest Asian American Theatre). 

Other credits: Organizer/Producer: 5th National Asian American ConFest, hosted by OSF; 1st and 2nd Freedom and Focus International Fitzmaurice Voicework® Conferences, Spain, Canada. Equity/Diversity/Inclusion: Fall Forum Intensive and launch of Equity/Diversity/Inclusion Institute and Work Groups (Theatre Communications Group); Core faculty (artEquity); Arts For LA ACTIVATE Cultural Policy Cohort; LA County Supervisors’ Cultural Equity Inclusion Initiative Work Groups; National Cultural Navigation Theatre Project (founder/producer)

Affiliations: Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, SAG-AFTRA, AEA.