Leila Teitelman (she/her) is a playwright and artist from New Hampshire. She holds a degree from Connecticut College where she majored in theater with a concentration in playwriting. While at Connecticut College, she accepted the Crabtree award for excellence in theater and presented her thesis production (Of the Beast) as an exploration of the changing theatrical representation of motherhood. Her plays include: Sex Without Energy (The National Theater Institute), Awful People Pray (National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, Princess Grace Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Table Work Press recommendation, Breaking Through the Box Theater, Fresh Fruit Festival, Working Title Productions, current Clauder Competition Finalist) and Baby Cakes (B-Street Theater Inaugural Comedy Festival, The Hearth Theater Co.) Leila was a 2017/2018 resident playwright at Athena Theater, a 2019/2020 resident playwright of the Inkubator writers group, and is on playwriting faculty at The National Theater Institute. Leila has worked in Education and Literary offices at Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Barrington Stage Company and Keene State College. As a performer, she has worked with David Dorfman Dance, The College Light Opera Company, The Hearth, NYC Fringe and NYC Musical Theater Festivals. Her visual art was published in Ricky’s Backyard Magazine. She is currently receiving her MFA from Lesley University in Writing for Stage and Screen.