Judith Leora

Judith Leora

Judith Leora (playwright) was commissioned by The Farm Theater to write a new play for the College Collaboration project: The Hierarchy of Fish was produced by Hillborough Community College (Tampa, FL) in Fall 2019 and by Shenandoah University (Winchester, VA), Winter 2020. Other recent productions include Elijah at The Victory Theatre Center (LA Times Critics Choice); Showpony at The Victory Theatre Center (LA...
Judith Leora (playwright) was commissioned by The Farm Theater to write a new play for the College Collaboration project: The Hierarchy of Fish was produced by Hillborough Community College (Tampa, FL) in Fall 2019 and by Shenandoah University (Winchester, VA), Winter 2020. Other recent productions include Elijah at The Victory Theatre Center (LA Times Critics Choice); Showpony at The Victory Theatre Center (LA Times Critics Choice); Elijah at Bristol Valley Theatre; The Cookie Fight at BVT; Gideon by Ego Actus at Paradise Factory and at UMASS Lowell (commission); Weird About the Baby by Ego Actus, NYC; One Minute Play Festival (New Ohio; The Brick) - five times. Recent readings: Painting with Lulu, a MadLab reading at the Kraine Theatre; Showpony in the Living Room Series/Blank Theatre in Hollywood, CA; Capital Rep Theatre Next Stage Festival, Albany, NY and at Lone Star Theatre, NYC; The X and the Y at BVT; Heart-Shaped Uterus a MadLab at IRT; The Cookie Fight (Last Frontier Theatre Conference). Judith is a member of the 2020 Project Y Playwrights Group; a Founding Member/Executive Director of New York Madness and was a Robert Askins Playwriting Fellow for Lone Star Theatre.

Plays

  • Elijah
    ELIJAH is a dark comedy about the death penalty, which takes place in a TGIFridays in Texas during a hurricane. While they wait out the storm near a prison with a high-profile execution schedule, a group of strangers discover that violence and mercy are not as easy to reconcile in the real world.
  • The Cookie Fight
    Three siblings - an embattled CEO, an under-employed actor and a born-again Christian - return home for Christmas and begin a fight over the financial and spiritual future of their family and the United States, and yes, also a cookie. As their battle escalates, it spills over into the strangely comforting corner convenience store and its unprepared owner, Gus.
  • Gideon
    While waiting for the cable guy, Aria and Zoe discover that figuring out how to survive life is the biggest challenge of all.