Leslie Powell

Well, this isn't Leslie Powell. But she is working on a bunch of stuff to put in here.

North Shore Readers' Collaborative Theater

             The Reader's Collaborative Theater is the joint venture of Ron Pullins, Leslie Powell and Marc Clopton. We are devoted to the advanced development of plays and theater on Boston's North Shore. We currently sponsoring a Saturday Morning series of plays in the Readers' Theater format, all of which take place once a month at Marc Clopton's Actor's Studio at the Tannery in Newburyport on the second Saturday (after the first Sunday) of each month. Audience development is encouraged thorugh a talk back following each play. For more information on the Collaborative, go  here. 

Leaky Roof Productions

    Leaky Roof is a production company formed by Ron Pullins, Leslie Powell, and Tim Diering, committed to producing dramatic works. An earlier incarnation with Leslie Powell and myself was the vehicle for the production of Five Sleazy Pieces during the Late Night Series at the Player's Ring in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 2004.

   Leaky Roof is producing a fringe version of The Movie Mogul, starring Tim Diering, Jack Rushton, and Gina Columbo. It will premier at the New England Fringe Festival September 25, 8:00 and September 27 at 2:00 and 8:00. The play will then move to the Actor's Studio for a three play weekend, along with a short play by Jack Onore on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Columbus Day weekend, September 10, 11, 12.

Novel and Stories
Novel

The Boss is Dead,
     A novella, Focus Publishing. 2004.  For an excerpt, click here.        
     Two excerpts from The Boss is Dead in, 221 One-Minute Monologues from Literature, selected and edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler, Autumn 2007, Smith and Kraus.

Stories
   Sweet Smelling Meat, Shenandoah, William and Mary College, 1972.
   Mr. Walking Stick, New Laurel Review, 1972

   C.-scape, Kansas Quarterly, 1974.

   Two short stories in Food and Other Enemies, edited by Leslie Powell, 2002.

Plays
Plays for Radio

Sweet Smelling Meat,
    Radio script version of short story, National Public Radio earplay

Stage Plays Full Length

The Boss is Dead

    Staged Reading, New Works Festival, Newburyport (MA)
    Honorable Mention, American Theater Co-op Fall Original Full Length Play Contest, Fall 2003
    Actor's Studio (Newburyport, MA) June 2004.

Ice's Crossing, 2008

    Readers Theater, North Shore Collaborative, Newburyport MA, April 2008, Reading.
     Great Plains Theater Conference, May 2008. Reading

Enemies of the State, 2007
     Staged Reading, Shadowboxing, Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston, July 2007
     Readers Theater, North Shore Collaborative, Newburyport MA, September 2007

     Great Plains Theater Conference, Concurrent Playlab Reading, May 2008b. For a sample scene from this play in pdf format, click here.

The Movie Mogul, a full length play, Co-written with Leslie Powell, 2008
     New England Fringe Festival, Boston, September 2008
     Actor's Theater, Newburyport MA, October 2008

Short Stage Plays

Mrs. McAlaster's Plot, co-written with Leslie Powell

     Belfast (ME) 15 Minute Festival, 2002, Finalist

     Mill City Minutes, Lowell, Fall 2006
     American Globe, NYC, Turnip Festival, Spring 2008

Movie Mogul in His Mama's Muumuu, co-written with Leslie Powell

    Belfast ME 15 Minute Festival, 2003, Runner Up. Staged Reading

     Five Sleazy Pieces, Short play review, Player's Ring, Portsmouth NH

Rose Enters the Room

Nailed, co-written with Leslie Powell
     Old Pueblo Playwrights New Works Festival, Tucson Arizona, March 2007.

Ma Ma Mafia, co-written with Michael McKearney
     Random Acts (Play in a Day) Festival, Newburyport MA, November 2007

Recyclist

     North Shore Reader's Theater, Reading, Newburyport MA, 2007.

     ATHE conference, Denver, 2008, play development workshop, 2008.

     Fort Point Exclamation Point!, Reading, Boston, March 2008

Nothing You Can Say, co-authored with Adair Rowland, Random Acts,

      Firehouse Center, Newburyport MA 2006

Acting Lesson #10: The Death Scene, cowritten with Mary H. Frakes,

      Random Acts, Newburyport MA, 2004

Other Awards

Caldwell writing award for undergraduates, University of Kansas

Education

            University of Kansas, B.A. and M.A. in English.

Conferences
    Advanced Playwrighting Intensive, Kennedy Center for the                 Performing Arts, Summer 2007.
    Great Plains Playwrighting Conference, Summer, 2008
    ATHE, Short play development workshop, 2008

Associations and memberships

           Association of American Publishers (head of house)

           Dramatists Guild, Associate member

           Playwrights Platform, Boston
           Theater Communications Group
           Stage Source, Boston

Other related professional experience
     Instructor, University of West Virginia (English). Taught composition, freshman / sophomore level literature courses.

     Assistant Instructor, University of Kansas (English). Taught composition.

     Adjunct Faculty, Northern Essex Community College (English) Taught composition.