Leslye Headland

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Leslye Headland (2012)

Leslye Ann Headland (* 1980 in Maryland ) is an American playwright , screenwriter and director .

Life

Headland grew up in Maryland as the daughter of a civil engineer in a Catholic family. She has two younger sisters and one younger brother.

She moved to New York City in the late 1990s . Headland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University . After completing her studies, she worked for six years as an assistant for the film production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company , including one year as Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant . This was followed by a brief position for the then Huffpost editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington .

At the same time, the first plays from the Seven Deadly Plays series were created , each of which reinterpreted a mortal sin in the context of the present. The series consists of the pieces Cinephilia ( lust ), Bachelorette ( gluttony ), Surfer Girl ( laziness ), Assistance ( greed ), Reverb ( anger ), The Accidental Blonde ( envy ) and Cult of Love ( arrogance ). They were staged in Los Angeles from 2007 by the IAMA Theater Company, where Headland was artist in residence .

From 2010, Headland was a full-time screenwriter part of the writing team for the crime comedy series Terriers , where she worked under Tim Minear . Shortly thereafter, her former employer The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to the Bachelorette play . Headland wrote the script for the film based on the template and also took over the direction of it. The comedy with Kirsten Dunst , Rebel Wilson , Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher started in German cinemas in October 2012 under the title The Wedding of our Biggest Friend .

This was followed by other scripts for feature films such as Assistance (2013), which was also based on the play of the same name, as well as About Last Night (2014) and Sleeping with Other People (2015). In the latter, Headland also took over the direction of the film. Headland also directed several episodes of the TV series SMILF (2017) and Heathers (2018).

In 2019 Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler brought Headland as the third member of the team to develop the Netflix series Matryoshka . Headland, who is listed as co-creator of the show, wrote the scripts or teleplay for three episodes of the first season and directed four episodes.

In April 2020 it was announced that Headland was working on the development of a new series from the Star Wars universe for Disney + .

Headland has been married to Canadian actress Rebecca Henderson since September 2016 .

Theater (selection)

Author

  • 2007: Cinephilia (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)
  • 2008: Bachelorette (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)
  • 2008: Assistance (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)
  • 2008: Surfer Girl (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)
  • 2008: Reverb (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)
  • 2008: The Accidental Blonde (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)
  • 2010: Bachelorette (McGinn-Cazale Theater, New York)
  • 2012: Assistance (Playwrights Horizons, New York)
  • 2016: The Layover (Second Stage Theater, New York)
  • 2018: Cult of Love (IAMA Theater Company, Los Angeles)

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 2012: The wedding of our thickest friend (Bachelorette)
  • 2015: Sleeping with Other People
  • 2017: SMILF (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2018: Heathers (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 2019: Black Monday (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • since 2019: Matryoshka ( Russian Doll , TV series)

script

Web links

Commons : Leslye Headland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Lizzy Goodman: Leslye Headland Is Now Gunning for Our Sex Lives . In: elle.com of July 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Celia McGee: A March of Deadly Sins, One by One . In: nytimes.com of July 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ Kate Knibbs: Leslye Headland Doesn't Mind Repeating Herself . In: theringer.com from February 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Leslye Headland . In: primarystages.org, accessed April 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b c Aubry D'Arminio: Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant writes tell-all play (sorta) . In: ew.com on February 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b c Kathryn VanArendonk: Leslye Headland on Russian Doll, Her Harvey Weinstein Play, and Why New York Is a 'Graveyard' . In: vulture.com on February 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ Bachelorette . In: theatermania.com, accessed April 24, 2020.
  8. ↑ World premiere 'Cult of Love,' final installment in Leslye Headland's 'Seven Deadly Plays' cycle, concludes 10th anniversary IAMA season . In: iamatheatre.com from April 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ Diep Tran: Leslye Headland on Sin, Certainty, and Harvey Weinstein . In: americantheatre.org of May 30, 2018.
  10. ↑ Joe Otterson: 'Star Wars' Series From 'Russian Doll' Co-Creator Leslye Headland in the Works at Disney Plus . In: variety.com from April 22, 2020.
  11. ↑ Kaitlin Menza: A Cozy Celebration in Manhattan . In: thecut.com of November 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Headland, Leslye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Headland, Leslye Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright, screenwriter, and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Maryland , United States