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Rory James Leech
managing / assoc. director
From the United Kingdom now based in Los Angeles. Founding artistic director of Misfit Toys Collective. Recently directed the premiere of Fear of Kathy Acker. Currently an Associate Producer at Center for New Performance and a 2023 Producers Academy Fellow with Beth Morrison Projects. He has formerly produced podcasts with Lemonada Media, including the award winning investigative journalism podcast Believe Her, and experimental theater with Rec Room Arts, joining the core artistic team at just sixteen years old. As a theater director, his credits include The Death of Walt Disney, FAUSTPILLED, The Twenty-Seven Club, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Seinfeld Live. Producing, acting, and creative credits include: Cloud Tectonics, Here Be Sirens, Roberto Zucco, Scene with Cranes, Woyzeck, Hansel and Gretel, Crucible, The Royale, Springs Awakening, Bald Soprano, Gatsby, 20202021, Ragtime, Next to Normal, The Acts of Afra, Contrition Pageant,
He is an alumni of California Institute of the Arts and HSPVA, and was awarded as an Arts Activist by Dramatists Guild of America. @roryjamesleech
Akemi Look
development
Previously, a member of the USA National Team in Rhythmic Gymnastics, competing at the 2002 World Championships and International competitions around the world.
Studied at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and The Alvin Ailey School of Dance.
Film & TV: HBO’s How To Make It In America
and The Man From Earth: Holocene.
Video games: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and
Call of Duty: Warzone.
Short films: Seppuku, Woman In Fragments, (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at China Short Film Academy Awards, and the Air Canada Short Film Award at Reel Asian Film Festival), and Carnal Orient.
Music videos: Miike Snow, Animal Collective.
An advocate for survivors of sexual abuse, trauma informed healing modalities, and creating a world where Asian American femme and queer stories are seen and heard.
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