Leanna Keyes
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Leanna Keyes is an American playwright, theatre producer, manager, and director based in Memphis, TN and the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a queer, trans woman, with extensive experience in new play development.[1] Keyes’ work is primarily focused on the experience of queer and trans individuals, particularly that of women. Her most notable play is Doctor Voynich and her Children, which was performed at Rhodes College and Stanford University before professionally premiered at Uprising Theatre Company in March 2020. That play is being published in the forthcoming The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays (which Keyes co-edited alongside Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller).[2]
Keyes earned a BA with honors in theatre and performance studies at Stanford University in 2014, where she was awarded the Sharifa Omade Edoga Prize for Work Involving Social Issues.[3] During her time at Stanford, Keyes contributed essays and opinion pieces to the school's journal STATIC.[4] She also co-wrote The Real World: Stanford with Olivia Haas as an introduction to Stanford life for freshman. The Real World first performed in 2013 for I Thrive@Stanford and continued to run annually from 2015-2017. The piece focused deeply on mental health, relationships, and sexual assault at Stanford.[5]