LEONIE BELL
LOCAL GRANDMA / LEAD ARTIST PROJECTS (selected)
+ SchmidtSmithSchmidt + Lead Artist/Performer (LOCAL GRANDMA production) + The Brick Theater + December 2023 +
+ Morgen bin ich wieder da (Part 1) + Solo + ?!:New Works 2023 +
+ We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club (Ep. 1 + 2) + Lead Artist/Performer (LOCAL GRANDMA production) + Exponential Festival 2022 + 23 (multi-media short series) +
+ Sonntags wird gelogen Or We Only Lie On Sundays + Lead Artist/Performer (LOCAL GRANDMA production) + The Brick Theater +
+ Einst träumte ich von dir: A Maybe Myth of Runny Nuns + Lead Artist/Performer (LOCAL GRANDMA production) + Exponential Festival 2021 (Theater film) +
+ Sommersonnenwende & Other Arrivals + Lead Artist/Performer (LOCAL GRANDMA production) + Target Margin Theater +
+ Slowtanz + Solo + 2021: The Brick: A New Year Series + The Brick +
+ Mamimumu + Solo + Exponential Festival 2020 + The Brick +
+ Other Strangers You’ve Met + Solo + ?!:New Works 2019 & BAX Upstart Program + The Brick +
+ Mommy and Me + Lead Artist/ Performer + Cloud City +
PERFORMANCE & COLLABORATION (selected)
+ ONE NIGHT + Performer/Co-creator + Target Margin Theater +
+ Now Go and Act Accordingly + Performer/Co-creator + Target Margin Theater +
+ Electric Feeling Maybe + Performer/Co-creator + Target Margin Theater +
+ Shoot, Don’t Talk (dir. Andrew Murdock) + LABAPALOOZA! + St. Ann’s Warehouse +
+ I Don’t Want to Interrupt You Guys + Performer/Co-creator + Mabou Mines & NACL +
+ New Mony! (dir. Maria Camia) + Object Movement Festival + Center for Park West +
+ Martha and Martha’s Docent Tour as part of The 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens (Creat. Sibyl Kempson) + Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art +
+ The Slow Room (dir. Annie Dorsen) + Gracie + Performance Space New York +
+ femme pathos (dir. Claire Moodey) + Lord of Form + The Brick +
+ Theater of the Resist (w/ Stew) + Performer + The Met Breuer +
+ Liebe Loretta + Loretta / Lotta + Dixon Place +
+ The People Speak + Performer + Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) (w/ Stew, Heidi & The Von Trapped) +
+ A Circular Play + Performer + Frances Ann Cannon Theatre (dir. Hyung Seok Jeon) +
+ Section 33: N1/2 SE1/4 NE1/4 + Lizzy + Frances Ann Cannon Theatre (dir. Emily Ritger) +
+ Marie Antoinette + Marie Antoinette + Suzanne Werner Wright Theatre (dir. Christine Farrell) +
+ Three Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time + Marina + Invisible Dog (dir. Morgan Green / New Saloon Theater Co. Production) +
|| MODELING ||
+ Leda and the Swan + Leda + Venice Biennale 2015 (Carole Feuerman) +
|| VOICEOVER ||
+ German Visual Language Test + German Girl + ACTFL +
||| SOUND DESIGN |||
+ SchmidtSmithSchmidt + December 2023 + The Brick Theater +
+ Fractals of Prometheus: Unity of Images + June 2023 presented by Culturehub at La Mama +
+ Morgen bin ich wieder da (Part 1) + Solo + ?!:New Works 2023 +
+ We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club (Ep. 1 + 2) + Lead Artist/Performer (LOCAL GRANDMA production) + Exponential Festival 2022 + 23 (multi-media short series) +
+ Arrow of Time + January 2023 + The Brick Theater +
+ Sonntags wird gelogen Or We Only Lie On Sundays + December 2021 + The Brick Theater +
+ Lunch with Sonia + October 2021 - June 2023 + LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company +
+ Classic Six + March 2021 + dir. Inés Braun
+ Einst träumte ich von dir: A Maybe Myth of Runny Nuns + January 2021 + (LOCAL GRANDMA production) +
+ PHASE ONE: The Underbrush + August 2020 + New Phase Collective
+ Sing, Goddess! + HERE ARTS + dir. Inés Braun
+ Women Screaming + The Tank + Tom Collective
+ Cracked + 14th Street Y Theater + dir. Dana Savage
+ An Easy Guide to Time Management + Dixon Place + dir. Sarah Scholl
+ A Circular Play + Sarah Lawrence College + dir. Hyung Seok Jeon
+ Machinal + Sarah Lawrence College +
||| OTHER SOUND |||
+ ONE NIGHT + Sound Demon/ Performer + Target Margin Theater 2022 +
+ Radio Karatina +
+ Sound Demon + Target Margin Theater + OCTOBER 2019, JANUARY 2020, OCTOBER 2020, MAY 2021, MARCH 2022, MARCH 2023 +
||| PLAYS |||
+ Im Dunkeln sieht man besser + (in development for 2026)
+ SchmidtSmithSchmidt +
+ Sonntags wird gelogen Or We Only Lie on Sundays +
+ Other Strangers You’ve met + produced 2019 (The Brick) +
+ MMMMMMMMMMMM + (in development)
+ Mommy and Me + produced 2019 (Cloud City, Brooklyn)
+ There’s a Leak in your Pain Or I Have a Drain in my Brain +
+ MY ARSE ON FIRE (AGAIN) or THE SUNDAY FILETTO MEENONION CAME TO TOWN or I JUST DON’T KNOW MY NAME ANYMORE +
+ A Draft Beer +
+ Liebe Loretta + produced 2017 (Sarah Lawrence College & Dixon Place)
+ Bad Theater Schlechtes Theater Theater Theater +
+ Kaktus Has Had a Birthday and Cried about Dying +
+ Geschichten von der Obstwende +
|||TRANSLATION|||
+ Translation of Leonce and Lena + Two-Headed Rep + Access Theater +
|||DIRECTING|||
+ The Gambler + Exponential Festival 2022
+ Honey, I’m Home! OR Dinner Theater for the Amorous & Wretched + Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks 2021
+ The Pretentious Young Ladies + Sarah Lawrence College +
+ Bloom + Sarah Lawrence College +
+ femmeFatalities + Sarah Lawrence College +
+ Assistant Dir. + 100 Years! Stay Tuned… + Tribeca Performing Arts Center (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis)
|||RESIDENCIES|||
20/21 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship || DEEP SPACE Performance Program 2019 (NACL) || Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program 2019 || BAX UPSTART Program 2018-2019 || The Midwife Term 2018-2019 || Celebration Barn || Barn Arts Collective Residency || The Tank || Next Generation Residency (La Mama Umbria) || Bard Berlin College Residency
|||AWARDS|||
2023 “Mix it Up” Sound Designer of the Year (Young Howze Theatre Awards) || Indie Shorts Awards Cannes 2021 (Sound Design: Phosphor) || La Mama DesignFest 2020 (Sound Design)
|||TRAINING|||
+ Sarah Lawrence College || MFA in Theater (2015-2017) +
David Neumann || Dan Hurlin || Erik Ehn || Sibyl Kempson || Stew Stewart || Tom Lee || Ernest Abuba || Shirley Kaplan || Jill du Boff || Jesse Perez || Lee Sunday Evans || Christine Farrell || Cassandra Medley || June Ekman || Michael Early || Tei Blow || Jeanette Yew || Ken Nintzel
+ Bard College || BA in Theater +
JoAnne Akalaitis || Jonathan Rosenberg || Jean Wagner || Lynn Hawley || Jim Calder || Zakiyyah Alexander || Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas || Elizabeth Smith || Daniel Fish || Kaye Voyce || JJ Lind
La Mama Umbria Director's Symposium 2016 (Marianne Weems || Yoshiko Chuma || Martha Clarke || Tian Mansha) || La Mama Umbria Playwright's Retreat 2016 (Mac Wellman) || Odin Teatret 2016 || Atlantic Acting School || Magnet Theater || British American Drama Academy || Stella Adler Acting Studio || Yale Conservatory for Actors || Double Edge Theatre
|||SPECIAL SKILLS|||
Microsoft Office, Google, and Adobe Suite || QLab and TroikaTronix Isadora || Experience with projection and AV equipment || Video editing || Stage Combat: hand-to-hand || Improvisation || Clowning | Commedia dell’Arte ||Languages: German(fluent)| French (conversational)|Spanish (High School-level) || Voice: Alto || Dance: Modern Dance|Ballroom Dance || Instruments: Clarinet|Piano || Driver’s License: manual|automatic
height: 5’7’’ || fluent in German and English
|||OTHER|||
Facilitator of LOCAL GRANDMA || Teaching Artist (Theater) at German School Brooklyn || Wardrobe for The House of Von Macrame at the Bushwick Starr || Internship at the Bushwick Starr || Wardrobe Crew at Bard SummerScape || Production Assistant/Crew for Fulcrum Theater Production of Bird In The Hand || Theater class at the Astor Home for Children || Internship with Elevator Repair Service || Dubbing for English language books (Berlin)