Leila Teitelman

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...

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.

Scripts

Waiting, or Something Equally Tragic

by Leila Teitelman

Cast Size

4

Genre

dark comedy

Four women wait for the bus, to get to the store, to buy their groceries. A mundane task. So, why is it so important?

Baby Cakes

by Leila Teitelman

1

Cast Size

8

Genre

comedy,

drama

A group of women face the bereavement of losing a child by attending support meetings at a local church. Helen, a new addition to the group and a recent transplant to Pennsylvania, creates tension and raises suspicion within the well-established cohort when she refuses to open up about her past.

Baby Cakes is an exploration of women’s relationship to loss and birth, the hypocrisies of motherhood, and the death...

A group of women face the bereavement of losing a child by attending support meetings at a local church. Helen, a new addition to the group and a recent transplant to Pennsylvania, creates tension and raises suspicion within the well-established cohort when she refuses to open up about her past.

Baby Cakes is an exploration of women’s relationship to loss and birth, the hypocrisies of motherhood, and the death of loved ones.

Awful People Pray

by Leila Teitelman

Cast Size

5—7

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

drama,

political

Jade is beginning her first summer as a camp counselor in Maine. As she and two other employees form an unlikely friendship, Jade's identity fuels wide-spread rumor. Camp is soon plagued with hateful graffiti and parental concerns, leaving Jade no other choice but to pack her bags.
Meanwhile, the other counselors are forced to confront their personal responsibilities and question why it is Jade who must leave...

Jade is beginning her first summer as a camp counselor in Maine. As she and two other employees form an unlikely friendship, Jade's identity fuels wide-spread rumor. Camp is soon plagued with hateful graffiti and parental concerns, leaving Jade no other choice but to pack her bags.
Meanwhile, the other counselors are forced to confront their personal responsibilities and question why it is Jade who must leave camp.

The Last Living Boy

by Leila Teitelman

Cast Size

5

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

horror

An aspiring writer, Cass bravely moved to the city and now spends every night not writing, but carrying on with the seemly ridiculous task of finding love. Unfortunately, all the men she meets online seem conceded or vapid, or maybe it is she who is conceded and vapid and uninteresting. No, it can’t be her, she’s an artist, an intellectual. Still, despite Cass never wanting to get married, and hating the idea of...

An aspiring writer, Cass bravely moved to the city and now spends every night not writing, but carrying on with the seemly ridiculous task of finding love. Unfortunately, all the men she meets online seem conceded or vapid, or maybe it is she who is conceded and vapid and uninteresting. No, it can’t be her, she’s an artist, an intellectual. Still, despite Cass never wanting to get married, and hating the idea of partnership, she continues her pursuit. But, like many love stories, there’s a hitch. Cass is beginning to see things. Things one might see whilst on a bad trip, or a bad haunted house. Slowly at first, then everywhere she turns. The men she meets are turning into monsters.

of the Beast

by Leila Teitelman

Cast Size

5—6

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

drama,

experimental

Leigh, a young woman in labor, realizes she is entering not only motherhood, but a strange dimension of irreparable maternal relationships. She must try to remember how to be a child before she can bring another into this strange world.

Sex Without Energy (a romance)

by Leila Teitelman

Cast Size

4

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

experimental,

political,

satire

Cynthia feels stuck in her marriage. David happens to be lurking outside. Scott is a mechanic who doesn't care for wives. A woman in a wedding dress has once again accidentally left her groom at the alter. They must all discover together how to navigate an outdated institution, exchange sexual partners, and escape a motel room.