Leah Plante-Wiener

Leah is a Brooklyn-based playwright and performer originally from Montreal.

Recent works include Cankersore Paradise (Columbia University), Gutbelly (Columbia University, the Vino Theatre), the electrologist (CATCH Performance Series, the Tank), watching you watching me watching you (The Tank), Warm Science (The Brick), and an adaptation of The Threepenny Opera (Columbia).

Her plays have been selected for the Road Theatre’s Summer Playwrights Festival (CA), the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the American Theatre Fresh Ink reading series (FL). She has participated in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the La MaMa Umbria Playwrights’ Retreat.

Additional credits include The Chain, Soho Playhouse, Citizen Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, SUNY Purchase...

Leah is a Brooklyn-based playwright and performer originally from Montreal.

Recent works include Cankersore Paradise (Columbia University), Gutbelly (Columbia University, the Vino Theatre), the electrologist (CATCH Performance Series, the Tank), watching you watching me watching you (The Tank), Warm Science (The Brick), and an adaptation of The Threepenny Opera (Columbia).

Her plays have been selected for the Road Theatre’s Summer Playwrights Festival (CA), the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the American Theatre Fresh Ink reading series (FL). She has participated in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the La MaMa Umbria Playwrights’ Retreat.

Additional credits include The Chain, Soho Playhouse, Citizen Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, SUNY Purchase, 938 Collective, Round the Bend, and We Who Wander.

She has an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

She is a fan of the unpleasant and the absurd.

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Scripts

Gutbelly

by Leah Plante-Wiener

10
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
horror

In a room in a house in the middle of a snowstorm, the Maries weave-- until an unexpected presence arrives at their door.

In a room in a house in the middle of a snowstorm, the Maries weave-- until an unexpected presence arrives at their door.

Bonefruit

by Leah Plante-Wiener

12
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
science fiction

In a chapel in the middle of the desert, two girls meet for the first time in years. Together, they must grapple with their beliefs, an act of forgiveness, and the thought of an existence beyond the violence that has forged them.

In a chapel in the middle of the desert, two girls meet for the first time in years. Together, they must grapple with their beliefs, an act of forgiveness, and the thought of an existence beyond the violence that has forged them.

Tilly Birdbones

by Leah Plante-Wiener

3
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
fable/folktale

An adult fairytale about grief, isolation, motherhood, and autonomy, Tilly Birdbones tells the story of a family's final year with its youngest child, as recounted by the tutor who bore witness to her metamorphosis into a bird.

An adult fairytale about grief, isolation, motherhood, and autonomy, Tilly Birdbones tells the story of a family's final year with its youngest child, as recounted by the tutor who bore witness to her metamorphosis into a bird.

Process Play

by Leah Plante-Wiener

4
Cast Size
3
Genre
experimental,
movement/physical

Writing sucks.

Writing sucks.