Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Leigh Fondakowski

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Leigh Fondakowski is a playwright and director and member of Tectonic Theater Project. She was the head writer of The Laramie Project for both stage and film and worked on developing a play about 19th century actress Charlotte Cushman.

Studios

Adams

Leigh Fondakowski worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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