In 2014 Leah presented ‘BFF’s and the Bard’ a paper on the import of female friendship in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare 450, an international gathering of Shakespeare scholars in Paris, France. Leah is a member of Alpha Psi Omega, the National Theatre Honor Society. Future projects include resurrecting Pan for the Fringe, founding Off Road Shakespeare a company that will introduce itself to Seattle with a processional outdoor production of Midsummer, and directing Caroline Bird’s The Trojan Women for Civic Rep. Since moving to Seattle in 2006, Leah has directed Julius Caesar for Seattle’s Handwritten Productions and her work at the UW – School of Drama included last season’s The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman, and two new plays that she adapted and directed: FAUST, an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and The Boy Who Couldn’t Grow Up a new play inspired by the life and work of JM Barrie. Leah Adcock-Starr is a transplant to the Northwest and the UW School of Drama from Saint Paul, MN where she worked as a freelance director, play maker, and arts educator for theatre companies throughout the Twin Cities metro area including the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company and the Stages Theatre Company in Hopkins, Minnesota. Hamline University, Bachelor’s degree, Directing and Theatrical Production, and Theology, 2002 – 2006 University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Directing and Theatrical Production, 2012 – 2015 Women of Will: Shakespeare’s Shrews and Spinsters The Wives and Warrior Women of William Shakespeare Queens, Goddesses, and Girls: The Women of William Shakespeare

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