Leigh Hendrix
About Leigh- Butchy McDyke Responds to Censorship
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About Leigh
Leigh Hendrix is a performer and theatre artist based in Brooklyn after making performance for many years in Providence, Rhode Island.
Leigh has danced with DoubleShift Dance Theatre in Providence and Boston-based choreographer Wanda Strukus. She created the role of Sadie in Kit Idazak’s The Golden Lasso at Perishable Theatre’s 15th Annual Women’s Playwriting Festival and collaborated on Annie H. Kee’s new work The Iphigenia Project in the role of Clytemnestra atEmerson College in Boston. Leigh has also played Matt Damon in Theatre of Thought’s site specific performances of Matt and Ben in apartments across Rhode Island.
Her solo performance work How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less was developed at Emerson College and as a Resident Artist at Providence’s Perishable Theatre. The piece had its regional premier in the Berkshires as part of WAM Theatre’s Oh Solo Mama Mia Festival in May 2011 and has been seen at the New Orleans Fringe Festival, United Solo Festival, Mary’s Attic in Chicago, 95 Empire in Providence, Coastal Carolina University, and Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble.
Leigh wrote and performed a two woman show about a two lady production of Hamlet with Melissa Bowler, Leigh and Melissa Present: Hamlette! It was presented as part of the Residence@95 program at AS220’s 95 Empire in Providence, RI.
Leigh created the role of the MC in Casey Llewellyn’s The Mechanical Opera Company Presents: Ziade! A Desperate Stab directed by Vanessa Gilbert for Brown University’s Writing is Live Festival.
Leigh is passionate about making new work with theatre artist of all shapes and sizes; she trained with the SITI Company's inaugural conservatory class and received her master’s degree in Theatre Education at Emerson College and has worked as a teaching artist with The Gamm Theatre , The Manton Avenue Project, and Riverside Theatre Works.
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Butchy McDyke Responds to Censorship
- Facing Political Pressure, USC Upstate Bans Lesbian Play: Butchy McDyke, Motivational Speaker and Expert Lesbian, Responds
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Leigh and Melissa Present: Hamlette!
- Leigh and Melissa Present: Hamlette!
Performed at 95 Empire September 2012
September 20th to September 30th Thursdays through Sundays at 8:00pm at 95 Empire
$10 and Sundays are pay-what-you-can. For more information visit www.as220.com/95-empire.
Leigh and Melissa Present: Hamlette! is the story of two women named Leigh and Melissa, who are office mates trapped in tedious and unrewarding jobs. Leigh is a struggling actor who hasn’t been cast in a play since college and Melissa is a stand-up comic who stopped performing, but can’t give up the dream. In an effort to escape the tedium and fight for their true ambitions, Leigh and Melissa surreptitiously create and rehearse a two-woman Hamlet in their office every night after their co-workers have gone home. By taking advantage of empty cubicles and plentiful legal pads, they attempt to overcome their current lot in life while launching their show business careers.
Bowler and Hendrix first discovered their love of performing together while playing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in Theatre of Thought’s production of Matt and Ben in early 2011. By November of that year, they’d created an early iteration of this show, then titled Leigh and Melissa. In May 2012 they presented a workshop production of Leigh and Melissa Present: Hamlette! at 95 Empire to enthusiastic audiences.
Read the Providence Monthly article about the show here!
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How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less
- How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less is a solo performance piece written and performed by Leigh Hendrix.
For more information about the show, check out the website:
www.howtobealesbianin10daysorless.com
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News and Performances
- How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Lesswritten and performed by Leigh HendrixSaturday June 28 at 2PM29x/ywritten and directed by Marcus YiThe Wild Project, NYCJuly 11 and 12 at 7PMJuly 13 at 2PMGet Away From Me I Love Youwritten by Leigh HendrixHOT! FestivalDixon Place Lounge, NYCJuly 31 at 7:30PMPast PerformancesButchy McDyke is back in Providence!One Night OnlyJune 29 at 8:00A one night only Pride month show that will also include scenes from Leigh's new show in progress Studies of a Story: You Just Need A Little Lipstick.A work in progress showingMay 24th and 25th at 7:30$5Leigh and Melissa (from accounting) are happy to invite you to Hamlette; their two women production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Basement of St Luke the Rower Methodist United Church.Thursday May 24th and Friday May 25th at 7:30pm Leigh and Melissa are having a work-in-progress showing of the latest permutation of the Leigh and Melissa project.After the show we'll hold a feedback session to help us finish the show for our September residency at 95 EmpireAdmission is $5 to help cover rent and expensesHope to see you there!9:00 at Roots CafeWhat's a lady lesbian to do when she finds a pair of glitter encrusted heels at Marshall's? Leigh will tell and show you!Sweet Little Variety ShowMarch 8th at 8:00Providence, RIA variety show performance also featuring Rory Raven, Meg Sullivan, Randy Bush, and Kristi Martel.
