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Leslie Brody Ph.D.

Professor
Creative Writing, Media & Communication

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Connecticut
  • M.A., University of Connecticut
  • B.A., San Francisco State University

Professional Background

Previous Teaching Experience

  • University of Connecticut

Previous Relevant Work Experience

  • Immediately after High school became an underground press reporter- traveled around Europe and lived in London, sampling various hippie occupations

  • Returned to California

  • Worked as a librarian in the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science

  • Became involved with The One-Act Theatre Company of San Francisco as a Resident Playwright

  • Moved to Minneapolis to continue work in theatre on a fellowship at the Playwrights Center

  • Worked at the Hungary Mind Bookstore, as the store publicist

  • Joined The Hungary Mind Review as columnist and contributing editor-writing many reviews

  • Wrote reviews for various national publications while plays and opera librettos produced around the country

  • Moved to CT to begin grad school and became Staff Book Reviewer for Elle magazine

Publications

SELECTED PRODUCED PLAYS

  • Quiet, Wyatt: Staged reading in LA, Playwrights Theatre 2007
  • Harriet the Spy: (Adaptation of Louise Fitzhugh's novel), summer 1999, Seattle Children's Theater School
  • Harriet the Spy: (Adaptation) Children's Theatre Co. (1988)
  • Emma Rothstien: New Classic Theatre (1986), Tracey Robert's Studio, First Street Playhouse (1987), One Act Theatre Co. (1979)
  • Baby Love: Theatre Three (1986)
  • Quiet, Wyatt: North American History Theatre (1987)
  • History of Rapture: Red Eye Collaboration, intersection
  • Water Flowing Under: Bay Area Playwrights Festival (1981), Playwrights Center, Mpls., MN (1984)
  • Questionnaire: One Act Theatre Company, San Francisco, (1978) Reviews Upon Request

OPERA LIBRETTOS

  • Hawks and Doves, commissioned by the New Music Theatre Ensemble. Composer: Leslie Ball. Currently in process
  • Invited to participate in the Composer/Librettist Studio, Opera for the Eighties And Beyond (1995)
  • The Black Rose of the Forest Perilous, in collaboration with Composer David John Olson
  • Lilith by the Sea, with Miriam Gerberg, Commissioned by The MN.Opera's New Music Theatre Ensemble (1988)

 

RADIO PLAYS

  • Emma Rothstein for KPFA Berkeley
  • History of Rapture - National Public Radio

Awards and service

  • "Red Star Sister" was awarded the "1999 PEN Center USA West prize for Creative Nonfiction"

  • "National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship" for short fiction

  • "McKnight Award in Screenwriting"

  • "Two Jerome Fellowships in Playwrighting"

  • "Dayton Hudson Grant for literary criticism"

  • "Sundance Fellow in Arts Journalism"

  • "International Writing Fellowships: Camargo Foundation, in France and at Hawthornden in Scotland"

  • "Writer in residence or fellow at McDowell Colony, Centrum, Yaddo, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Arts"

Presentations

  • Octagon Theatre, University of Bolton, England, 2007

  • Camargo Foundation, 2005

  • Speakout Reading, April 2003

  • Collegial Conversation, October 2002

  • Book Reception with Ralph Angel and Pat Geary, May 2002

  • Los Angeles Times Book Fair, "Inside Out: The Art of the Memoir," April 2002

  • Selected panelist at Board of Trustees Retreat, November 2001, "Art of the Aftermath of 9/11"

  • Caltech reading and discussion of "Red Star Sister," November 2001

  • Panelist and Moderator, Campus Conversation, October 2001

  • Associated Writing Program Conference Panelist, Film and the Literary Arts, April 2001

  • Reading, University of California, Riverside, Writer's Week, February 2001

  • Sundance Writer's Reading, Park City, Utah, January 2001

  • Reading, Northlight Books, December 1998

  • Reading, Frugal Frigate, Redlands, March 1999

  • Reading, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, April 1999

  • Reading, University of Connecticut-invited by English dept.

  • National Public Radio, All Things Considered. Sept 1998

  • Blue Moon Bookstore, San Diego, Sept. 1998

  • Midnight Special Bookstore, Los Angeles, Sept. 1998

  • Much Ado about Books, Redlands, September 1998

  • Diesel Books, Oakland, December 1998

  • Book Passage, Marin, December 1998

Areas of Expertise

  • Management information systems
  • Human population and urban studies

  • Geographic information systems (GIS)

  • Renewable energy