Leslie Powell

311 Merrimac Street
Newburyport MA 01950

North Shore Readers' Collaborative Theater

             The Reader's Collaborative Theater is the joint venture of Ron Pullins, myself 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 produced a fringe version of The Movie Mogul, starring Tim Diering, Jack Rushton, and Gina Columbo for the New England Fringe Festival September 25 and 27.Cowinner for Audience Choice awards.. The play then moveed to the Actor's Studio for a three play weekend, along with a short play by Jeff Onore on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Columbus Day weekend, September 10, 11, 12.

Random Acts
Co-Founder and Producer with Hailey Klein of “Random Acts” a play-in-a-day festival which began in 2001.  Produced in sixth year at the Firehouse Center for the Arts.

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Writers and Actors, Ink
Co-founder, also with Ms. Klein, of Writers and Actors, Ink. A collaboration of writers and actors dedicated to the development of new plays. Founded 2003.

Plays

All the Way to Chattanooga: A Ten Minute Play
    Staged reading, Our Voices Together Festival, April 2009
    Universal Theatre, Provincetown MA January 2009

Enough: A monologue
    Boston Playwrights Threatre Swan Festival, April 2009

Soldier Boy: A Ten Minute Play
    Produced at the Boston Theatre Marathon, 2008

Mrs. McAlaster's Plot, co-written with Ron Pullins

     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 Ron Pullins

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

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

The Movie Mogul, a full length play, Co-written with Ron Pullins, 2008
     Firehouse (Newburyport) New Works Festival
     New England Fringe Festival, Boston, September 2008
     Actor's Theater, Newburyport MA, October 2008

The Way Life Should be: A Full Length Drama

    Staged Reading, New Works Festival, Newburyport (MA) 2004
    Old Pueblo Playwrights New Works Festival Tucson, Arizona 2005.
    Short listed for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2006.

Your Precious Word
   Image Theatre, September 2006 as a part of Mill City Minutes.  

Nailed: Ten Minute Play, co written with Ron Pullins
   Old Pueblo New Works Festival, Tucson AZ 

Take Me In: A full length drama
    Staged Reading, Footlights Theatre, Jamaica Plain MA
    New Works Festival 2003, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport

Conferences

Advanced Playwrighting Intensive, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Summer 2007.

Associations and memberships

Dramatists Guild, Associate member
Playwrights Platform, Boston
Old Pueblo Playrights, Tucson AZ