Originally from Nebraska, Leigh Walter is an artistic leader, director, producer and manager based in NYC for the past decade. She has worked at Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, The Public, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Trusty Sidekick and HERE Arts Center among a myriad of other theaters, warehouses, bars, museums, streets and parks. This work has been focused on developing new theatre, with a passion for immersive/non-traditional productions and puppetry.  Her most recent directed work, A Perfect Party for Trees, was an outdoor promenade puppet performance made for and with neurodiverse audiences, featured in the NYTimes “But perhaps the greatest gift this new play offers its audience is intangible: the freedom to be themselves.” She has worked on over 100 productions in the past 10 years which has included Off-Broadway musicals, performance art, dance, opera and everything in-between. 

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