Leda Siskind

Leda Siskind

I have been a professional actor, with credits on Broadway, off-Broadway, and Los Angeles theatre. My most recent play, 'The Surveillance Trilogy' was produced by Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills and received glowing reviews (The Los Angeles Times stated: 'Whether playfully or poignantly rendered, Siskind's character share a pervasive and justifiable paranoia.") My play about adolescents...
I have been a professional actor, with credits on Broadway, off-Broadway, and Los Angeles theatre. My most recent play, 'The Surveillance Trilogy' was produced by Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills and received glowing reviews (The Los Angeles Times stated: 'Whether playfully or poignantly rendered, Siskind's character share a pervasive and justifiable paranoia.") My play about adolescents, 'All My Distances Are Far', was also produced by Theatre 40 and is published by Steele Spring Stage Rights. My one act (two actresses) about homelessness, 'The Liar's Punishment' was produced by the Pierson Playhouse as a benefit for a homeless task force. It was revised for the Hollywood Fringe Festival with 20% of proceed donated to the The Downtown Women's Center.

Plays

  • How Things Fall
    How far would a parent go to insure her developmentally disabled child has a shot at attending a prestigious college? And what happens when that adolescent finds out her rock star mother paid to have her admitted? In 'How Things Fall,' Cassie rebels against her parents in a particularly public (and viral) way - insuring her family and her future will never be the same.
  • The Surveillance Trilogy
    This is a three piece play about domestic spying: the first piece, 'Until All of This is Over' is about a 'lavender' couple during the McCarthy era, the second piece, 'The Havana Syndrome' concerns the mysterious 'illness' of the workers at our Cuban embassy, while the third piece, 'Are You Listening?' is about how our current A.I. devices can be used to spy on us and disrupt our lives.
  • The Liar's Punishment
    This is a one act for two women (ages 60 and 30ish), one set. Elbee is a homeless actress living under a freeway overpass. She is approached by Gwen, a county social worker, who entreats her to leave her encampment for a new shelter program. Elbee uses speeches from Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw to deflect Gwen's interest in her, despite her empathy for Gwen's apparent sadness and recent...
    This is a one act for two women (ages 60 and 30ish), one set. Elbee is a homeless actress living under a freeway overpass. She is approached by Gwen, a county social worker, who entreats her to leave her encampment for a new shelter program. Elbee uses speeches from Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw to deflect Gwen's interest in her, despite her empathy for Gwen's apparent sadness and recent loss. But there are too many similarities in the histories of both women to be mere coincidence. Is Elbee Gwen's mother? Or is Elbee lying about too many things? Does compassion depend upon honesty?
  • All My Distances Are Far
    What happens to a foster teen when she ages out of the system? What happens to an adolescent boy with Aspergers when he falls in love? What happens to a straight-A student who is being sexually molested? All these characters and others confide to the psychotherapist who sees them at their urban high school. Through each of their monologues, the audience becomes the silent confidant - and well as the witness to...
    What happens to a foster teen when she ages out of the system? What happens to an adolescent boy with Aspergers when he falls in love? What happens to a straight-A student who is being sexually molested? All these characters and others confide to the psychotherapist who sees them at their urban high school. Through each of their monologues, the audience becomes the silent confidant - and well as the witness to the therapist herself - as each teenager grapples with his or her struggle by the end of the school year.