Ray Leslee

Music: Avenue X (the award-winning acappella musical at Playwrights Horizons in New York and at the Alliance directed by Susan Booth); Standup Shakespeare (directed by Mike Nichols on Broadway and revived with F. Murray Abraham and Alfred Molina); A Good Man (in Europe at The Vienna Chamber Opera); Educating Rita (Steppenwolf Theatre); Palestine (New York Theatre Wkshp); The Three Musketeers (national tour with The Acting Company); Twelfth Night (Theatre For A New Audience); and The Author’s Voice (with Philip Seymour Hoffman); et al. Classical music: Maya Songs, the poems of Maya Angelou (with Atlanta's Riverside Chamber Players, Joel Dallow artistic director); Romeo & Juliet For Orchestra & Actors (a symphony with The Buffalo Philharmonic); and A Chamber Christmas Carol (the Dickens classic for five actors and five musicians at The Morgan Library & Museum); et al. Current project: The Learned Ladies, a new musical based on the play by Molière.