Leslie Brody Ph.D.
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
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Immediately after High school became an underground press reporter- traveled around Europe and lived in London, sampling various hippie occupations
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Returned to California
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Worked as a librarian in the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science
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Became involved with The One-Act Theatre Company of San Francisco as a Resident Playwright
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Moved to Minneapolis to continue work in theatre on a fellowship at the Playwrights Center
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Worked at the Hungary Mind Bookstore, as the store publicist
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Joined The Hungary Mind Review as columnist and contributing editor-writing many reviews
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Wrote reviews for various national publications while plays and opera librettos produced around the country
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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
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"Red Star Sister" was awarded the "1999 PEN Center USA West prize for Creative Nonfiction"
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"National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship" for short fiction
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"McKnight Award in Screenwriting"
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"Two Jerome Fellowships in Playwrighting"
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"Dayton Hudson Grant for literary criticism"
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"Sundance Fellow in Arts Journalism"
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"International Writing Fellowships: Camargo Foundation, in France and at Hawthornden in Scotland"
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"Writer in residence or fellow at McDowell Colony, Centrum, Yaddo, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Arts"
Presentations
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Octagon Theatre, University of Bolton, England, 2007
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Camargo Foundation, 2005
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Speakout Reading, April 2003
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Collegial Conversation, October 2002
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Book Reception with Ralph Angel and Pat Geary, May 2002
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Los Angeles Times Book Fair, "Inside Out: The Art of the Memoir," April 2002
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Selected panelist at Board of Trustees Retreat, November 2001, "Art of the Aftermath of 9/11"
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Caltech reading and discussion of "Red Star Sister," November 2001
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Panelist and Moderator, Campus Conversation, October 2001
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Associated Writing Program Conference Panelist, Film and the Literary Arts, April 2001
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Reading, University of California, Riverside, Writer's Week, February 2001
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Sundance Writer's Reading, Park City, Utah, January 2001
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Reading, Northlight Books, December 1998
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Reading, Frugal Frigate, Redlands, March 1999
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Reading, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, April 1999
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Reading, University of Connecticut-invited by English dept.
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National Public Radio, All Things Considered. Sept 1998
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Blue Moon Bookstore, San Diego, Sept. 1998
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Midnight Special Bookstore, Los Angeles, Sept. 1998
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Much Ado about Books, Redlands, September 1998
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Diesel Books, Oakland, December 1998
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Book Passage, Marin, December 1998
Areas of Expertise
- Management information systems
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Human population and urban studies
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Geographic information systems (GIS)
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Renewable energy