Bridget Leak

Bridget Leak is a Cincinnati-based theatre director and co-founder of Queen City Flash. Productions include; Actually at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (where she has previously directed for the Playhouse's Off-the-Hill Series), Reconstruction (Lincoln Center), and Night of the Living Deepwater Horizon (ANT Fest, Ars Nova). Bridget is a People's Liberty Grant recipient for her project Desktop Theatre, an arts-initiative that helps teachers integrate the performing arts with larger-than-life plays made small enough to fit on a child's desk. She previously collaborated with Cradle Cincinnati to develop a healing-through-storytelling pilot program for Mothers in Price Hill and is a former Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellow. Her production Slut Shaming - commissioned by NYC's The Culture Project  -  was produced by Xavier University in coordination with their TITLE IX office and was awarded the Ignatian Medal for Outstanding Commitment to Diversity and Social Justice. She was featured in American Theatre Magazine and had her work highlighted in Teaching Theatre magazine, a publication of EdTA. She is a Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, Artist in Residence at Robert Wilson's The Watermill Center, an Artist in Residence at the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance. Bridget has her M.F.A. in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and is a member of SDC. She calls East Price Hill home with her husband, playwright-composer Trey Tatum and puppies "Pocket" & "Lint" bridgetleak.com #ADirectorsLife