Leigh Fondakowski

Leigh Fondakowski is a playwright, screenwriter, author, and director, and has been a member of Tectonic Theater Project since 1995. She was the head writer of The Laramie Project, co-writer of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, and an Emmy-nominated co-screenwriter of the HBO film adaptation of The Laramie Project. Fondakowski is also chair of Tectonic’s Moment Work Institute and teaches and lectures nationally and internationally.

Her plays include The People’s Temple, I Think I Like Girls, and Spill. She is the author of the nonfiction book Stories from Jonestown, which grew from her research and interviews with survivors of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy. Her work has been produced by theaters including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, the Guthrie Theater, and American Theater Company.