Lesley Greene

Lesley Greene

Lesley Greene is a playwright, sound designer, composer, video editor, and director based in Ithaca, NY. She is co-director of Story House Ithaca, an organization that brings people together to share, study, create, and enjoy stories in all their forms. She co-founded and continues to be an organizer of Porchfest, a festival that began in Ithaca in 2007 and now takes place in more than 150 cities across North...
Lesley Greene is a playwright, sound designer, composer, video editor, and director based in Ithaca, NY. She is co-director of Story House Ithaca, an organization that brings people together to share, study, create, and enjoy stories in all their forms. She co-founded and continues to be an organizer of Porchfest, a festival that began in Ithaca in 2007 and now takes place in more than 150 cities across North America. She worked for over twenty years at the Kitchen Theatre Company, working on dozens of productions in various capacities and helping to grow the organization. Her play about abortion research, The Turnaway Play, recently received a workshop and public reading.

Plays

  • The Turnaway Play by Lesley Greene
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: abortion, feminism + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: abortion, feminism, choice, Roe v. Wade, families, work-life balance, Supreme Court, science, research
    The Turnaway Play is a witty, moving, and timely look at what really happens when women are denied access to abortion. The play is inspired and informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, which followed 1,000 women over ten years and reached the first definitive scientific conclusions about the consequences for women’s lives of either having or being denied abortions. The study was headed by the playwright’s...
    The Turnaway Play is a witty, moving, and timely look at what really happens when women are denied access to abortion. The play is inspired and informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, which followed 1,000 women over ten years and reached the first definitive scientific conclusions about the consequences for women’s lives of either having or being denied abortions. The study was headed by the playwright’s real-life sister, Diana Greene Foster, and the characters are based on study subjects and members of the research team. With honesty and humor, the play reaches beyond our polarizing political conversation to look deeply into one of the most important and urgent issues of our time.