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Dramaturg, Much Ado About Nothing

Kristin Leahey is an Assistant Professor at Boston University. This is her third season with OSF (The Tempest(2022), Romeo and Juliet (2023)). She has freelanced as an artist with the O’Neill Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Primary Stages, Classical Stage Company, Playwrights’ Center, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, American Theatre Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival, Teatro Vista (artistic associate), Steep Theatre (ensemble member), and A Red Orchid Theatre, among others. She holds a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, earned her MA in Theatre from Northwestern University, and her BA from Tufts University. Her publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Journal of American Drama, and New England Theatre Journal, as well as articles in the anthologies Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy Anthology. She served as the Literary Manager of Wolly Mammoth Theatre, Literary Director of Seattle Rep, and was a producer with the WP 2020-22 Lab. She is a recipient of a Fulbright and will be in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre.