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AEA*SAG*AFTRA*DRAMATIST GUILD
Leslie Harrell Dillen is an award-winning actor, solo performer and playwright. As an actor she has appeared in theatre,
television and film, in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston as well as in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre, The Eureka Theatre, and The American Conservatory under William
Ball.
Leslie has performed her solo plays on stages throughout the U.S. and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
Her solo play, Me & George won the playwrights award from The Massachusetts Cultural Council and was named Boston's "Best One Woman Show
of the Year". USA Today described it as, "a poignant, hilarious glimpse into both a personal and civic psyche." The London Times
and Daily Record listed it as Pick of the Week and The Scotsman described it in a rave as "witty and poignant. Highly watchable."
Recently The New York International Fringe Festival presented her solo play ACTION JESUS where nytheatre.com called it "profound...lively,
joyous and exuberant."
Additional solo shows include:
Dressed-Up! Directed by Karen MacDonald with soundscape by David Remedios, both from the American Repertory Theatre. "Highly personal and inspirational." The Boston Globe
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The Passions Of Mabel Dodge Luhan developed through research of Luhan's papers at Yale and directed by Edward Hastings,
former Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theatre. "Accomplished, gratifying and emtionally engaging." The New
Mexican.
As a playwright, Leslie has been produced in New York, Boston, Spokane, Oklahoma, and California. Her full-length play, Death Quilt, directed by Oskar Eustis, was workshopped at
The Sundance Institute. Five of her one-act plays were performed at the Boston Theatre Marathon, including the most recent THE RED AND THE BLUE and BENJI 53.
Leslie's teaching credits include: Intro to Playwriting at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Acting at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, Speech and Voice at Circle and the Square in New York,
and Acting and Playwriting to both high school students and teachers at the Oklahoma Arts Institute.
Leslie trained with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and recently received her Masters in Creative Writing
from Boston University. Leslie is also a graduate of the four year program of Theological Education for Ministry from The University of the
South.
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A sixth generation Oklahoman partly of Chickasaw and Cherokee descent, Leslie's married to the author Frederick G. Dillen and
lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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