writer & artist

Leila Teitelman (she/her) is a playwright and artist from New Hampshire. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in writing for stage and screen and a BA from Connecticut College with a concentration in playwriting. While at Connecticut College, she accepted the Crabtree award for excellence in theater and presented her thesis production (Of the Beast) as an exploration of the changing theatrical representation of motherhood. Her plays include: Awful People Pray (National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, Princess Grace Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Table Work Press recommendation, Breaking Through the Box Theater, Working Title Productions, Clauder Competition NH winner), Baby Cakes (B-Street Theater Inaugural Comedy Festival, The Hearth Theater Co.) andA Place for Us (The Kennedy Center, Boston Theater Marathon). Leila was a 2017/2018 resident playwright at Athena Theater, a 2019/2020 resident playwright of the Inkubator writers group, and is on playwriting faculty at The National Theater Institute. Leila has worked in Education and Literary offices at Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Barrington Stage Company and Keene State College. As a performer, she has worked with David Dorfman Dance, The College Light Opera Company, The Hearth, NYC Fringe, NYC Musical Theater Festivals and Vermont Stage. Her visual art was published in Ricky’s Backyard Magazine. She currently lives in Burlington, VT where she teaches theater and The University of Vermont