Lenelle Moïse (pronounced "moy-eez") wrote, composed, and co-starred in the critically-acclaimed Off Broadway drama EXPATRIATE. Her rom-com K-I-S-S-I-N-G won the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. Her Ruby Prize winning comedy MERIT was featured on the Kilroys List. Her other full-length plays include THE MANY FACES OF NIA and PURPLE.

Lenelle was the Spring 2018 Playwright-in-Residence at Ithaca College, the 2017 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing, and a Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow. She has received commissions, awards and/or play development residencies from the Gaea Foundation, Southern Rep, Hedgebrook, Astraea, Clark University, New Rep, Northwestern University, UT Austin, and Women Center Stage at the Culture Project. She has written short works for Center Stage (My America) and The New Black Fest (UnTamed).

Lenelle is internationally touring solo performer and was the fifth Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Her book of poetry, HAITI GLASS, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and a winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature.