Leslie Ishii
Theatre: OSF: Dramaturg, Manahatta (2018); API 2x2 New Works Lab (on-going, founder/producer); FAIR Assistant director (Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 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, 2015, 2017); The Dead Guy (California State University, Los Angeles); Front and Center Program, different words for the same thing, Directors/Playwright New Works Lab, partnering Culver City High School and the Center Theatre Group/CTG; Actor, Director (Northwest Asian American Theatre). Other credits: Organizer/Producer: 5th National Asian American ConFest hosted by OSF, 6th CAATA ConFest hosted by Victory Gardens/Silk Road Rising, Chicago, IL (Aug. 2018); 1st and 2nd Freedom and Focus International Fitzmaurice Voicework® Conferences, Spain, Canada. Equity/Diversity/Inclusion/Access: Fall Forum Intensive and launch of Equity/Diversity/Inclusion Institute (Co-Facilitator) 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. Actor: Broadway and regional theatre resume available upon request. Training: American Conservatory Theatre and Company Member; On Camera: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411013/?ref_=nv_sr_1