Leslie Gauthier

Leslie Gauthier (she/her) is a playwright and actress. Her plays include Elsewhere (Himan Brown Award 2024, semifinalist, Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator) Cul-de-Sac (AFF 2024, Terrence McNally New Works Semifinalist), Greetings! From the Mojave (BAM September 2024), and 23 (Theater for the New City). As an actor she’s performed at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Lincoln Center, with Target Margin, Clubbed Thumb, Columbia University, among others. She’s held writing residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Courcommune in Voulx, Fr. She writes about mortality, desire, climate hope and climate grief to reveal and strengthen our collective relationship to the natural world. B.A. Fordham University, Performance & Directing; MFA Playwriting Brooklyn College.