Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski

She teaches and lectures around the country, including New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and is on faculty in the MFA in Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University.

She is the author of the non-fiction book, Stories from Jonestown, and is currently adapting the book to film. Leigh is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and was a Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of Minnesota in 2010. Awards include The Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area, The People’s Temple, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for Best Production, I Think I Like Girls, and a Jeff Nomination for Best Chicago Production, SPILL. Her plays have been produced under her direction at American Theater Company, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Encore Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theater, Swine Palace, TimeLine Theater, and Z Space Studio. Her other original plays include, I Think I Like Girls, The People’s Temple, SPILL, and Casa Cushman. She was the head writer of The Laramie Project, co-writer of Laramie: Ten Years Later, and an Emmy Nominated co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of Laramie with HBO Films. Leigh Fondakowski is a playwright, screenwriter, author, and director. For the first week of the Physical Theatre Intensive, students worked with guest faculty Leigh Fondakowski in a course called The Devising Grid.

Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski