Leif Larson was born in California during the Summer of Love. Charles Manson was assembling his Family, and cults were everywhere. He was born into one. He came out at a time when being gay felt like a death sentence. He writes plays to share with his community what it feels like to survive. He writes plays in the spirit of strengthening our sense of empathy and understanding for each other.

 

In 2023, he attended the Valdez Theater Conference where his play, Shake the Disease, received a staged reading, then went on to workshop productions at the Downtown Urban Arts Festival and FRIGID’s Queerly Festival. Also in 2024, his play cum rag had a staged reading at the Emerging Artists Theatre’s Spark Festival, and his short play The Arcadian loop was produced for the SOOP to Nuts Theater Festival. 

 

Leif is a member of the Cut/Edge Collective a cohort of experimental playwrights who are interested engaged in pushing the boundaries of theater. He is currently a Fellow in Literary Arts with the Lucas Artists Residency Program and he received a playwright fellowship from Vermont Studio Center in 2022.