Leah Cooper

DIRECTING IN MINNESOTA
Or by Liz Duffy Adams, Park Square Theatre (Upcoming, Feb 2013)
Kill Me, Don't Go by Trista Baldwin, Workhaus Collective (Upcoming, Nov 2012)
The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, Commonweal Theatre
Where We're Born by Lucy Thurber, 20% Theatre Company
Independence by Lee Blessing, Theatre in the Round Players
After Miss Julie adapted by Patrick Marber from Miss Julie by August Strindberg, Gremlin Theatre
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, Park Square Theatre
Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, Theatre in the Round Players
As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Shakespearean Youth Theatre
Panache by Don Gordon, Theatre in the Round Players
Landscape of the Body by John Guare, Prufrock Theatre
Teach Me Tonight by Ariel Pinkertonm, 20% Percent Theatre
The Hunchback of Notre Dame adapted from Victor Hugo novel by Mitchell Fay, The Cromulent Shakespeare Company
A Rain of Seagulls by Meron Langsner, Chekhov Festival
Everywhere Signs Fall by Alan Berks, Gremlin Theater
Anton in Show Business by Jane Martin, Starting Gate Productions
I've Got a Secret by Daniel Pinkeron, Fortune’s Fool Players
Glorious Noise by Rik Reppe, Fringe Festival
Vanek Trilogy by Vaclav Havel, Ministry of Cultural Warfare
9/11 Plays (short play by Rhiana Yazzie), Emigrant Theater
Unveiling by Vaclav Havel, Ministry of Cultural Warfare
WASP by Steve Martin, Ministry of Cultural Warfare
It’s Just a Job by Chris Gennaula, Fringe Festival
Listen by Leah Cooper, Fringe Festival
Chicago Avenue Project (four times), Pillsbury House Theatre
24-Hour Play Project (two times), Theatre Unbound

ASSISTANT DIRECTING
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, dir. Ethan McSweeny, Guthrie Theater
Desiderare by company, dir. Robert Rosen, Live Action Set

WORKSHOPS OF NEW PLAYS
Object Permanence by Paula Anderson
The Sequence by Vince Delaney
Wade the Bird by Trista Baldwin
DOE by Trista Baldwin

ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP

Minnesota Theater Alliance
Executive Director, Mar. 2010-present

MinnesotaPlaylist.com
Founding Partner, Jul. 2008-present

Toolbox Consultants
Partner, Consultant, Sep. 2006-present
• Arts administration consulting, including: strategic planning, marketing and PR, systems design, hiring, organizational development.
• Clients include: Minnesota State Arts Board, Springboard for the Arts, Mixed Blood Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Southern Theater, Open Eye Figure Theater, Patrick’s Cabaret, History Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Burning House Group, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Theatre Unbound, Irwin Andrew Porter Foundation, Upstream Arts, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Minnesota Fringe Festival
Executive Director, Sep. 2001 – Sep. 2006

VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY POSITIONS
• Board president, Live Action Set
• Commissioner, Minneapolis Arts Commission, 2007-2011