Leslie Gauthier

New York

Leslie Gauthier is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and Paste Magazine. Leslie wrote, produced and performed in 23-Year-Old Myth as part of Theater for the New City’s Dream-Up Festival. Her short film, “The Astronaut Hour”, was recognized by the International Independent Film Awards in 2019. Her creative nonfiction earned her 2017 and 2019 creative residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm and a 2019 residency at CourCommune in Voulx, France. Leslie has performed in numerous plays, readings and short films including Stop the Virgens (St. Anne’s Warehouse), The Turn of the Screw (David Rubenstein Atrium-Lincoln Center) and Madame de Sade (Columbia Grad). She has also performed with Target Margin Theater & Clubbed Thumb. Leslie is currently working on music, plays about sexuality and mortality, and completing her memoir about young adult cancer survivorship, Everything Underwater.