Leslie Buxbaum Danzig
Leslie Buxbaum Danzig (collaborating director) is a collaborating director with Julia Rhoads/Lucky Plush Productions with whom she co-created The Better Half, The Queue and Rooming House. For over a decade, Leslie was co-founder and resident director of the Chicago-based physical theater company 500 Clown, whose shows performed in Chicago and throughout the US. Other directing credits include Third Coast Percussion’s Paddle to the Sea and Wild Sound, composed by Wilco’s Glenn Kotche, with performances at venues throughout the US and abroad including MCA Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), National Forum of Music (Wroclaw) and De Doelen (Rotterdam), and a number of productions in Chicago at The Actors Gymnasium, House Theatre, Redmoon, Chicago Children’s Theater, About Face Theater, and in New York at New Victory Theater and PS 122, among others. Prior to turning to directing, Leslie toured nationally and internationally as an actor with NYC’s Elevator Repair Service. Leslie is Assistant Professor of Practice in Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago. Projects in development include a puppet-circus-theater show based on the myth of Atlanta and a new script that is slowly but surely taking shape.