Leonie Bell

2026

The Brick presents
Im Dunkeln sieht man besser (translation: You Can See Better In the Dark)
by Leonie Bell with LOCAL GRANDMA

Performance Dates:

Thurs - Sat, Oct 1 - 3 at 8 PM +  Sun, Oct 4 at 5 PM 
Thurs - Sat, Oct 8 - 10 at 8 PM + Sun, Oct 11 at 2 PM* 
Thurs - Sat, Oct 15 - 17 at 8 PM + Sun, Oct 18 at 5PM 

* This performance includes a special live streaming performance via The Brick YouTube Channel filmed live by Zanni Productions.
(8 PM CET & 11 AM PST ) 

Venue:
Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, 11211 United States

Running time: 70 minutes
Tickets: $25-50

In a town where the living and undead cohabitate: Birthday girl Biggi performs a cabaret and attends a death. Hartmann, a rule-loving undead local, experiences a life-altering scheduling problem. Accountant-gone-theater-producer Harriet discovers a ghost from her past and decides to haunt them back. This revenge play features mean school girls, choral song + text in German and English.

Im Dunkeln sieht man besser is LOCAL GRANDMA’s third full-length production.

CREATIVE TEAM

Text: Leonie Bell
Direction: Leonie Bell + Celia Krefter
Costume Design: Karen Boyer
Lighting Design: Celia Krefter
Props Design: Jonathan Schatzberg
Set Design: Forest Entsminger
Sound Design: Leonie Bell
Fight Direction + Gore Design: Bailey Van Schepen
Stage Management: Akvinder Kaur
Run Crew + Screaming Title Maid: TBD
Press and Marketing: Privy Collective
Producing Team: Leonie Bell + Celia Krefter
A LOCAL GRANDMA Production

CAST

Leonie Bell
CHEEKS
Theodor Gabriel
Julliette Holliday
John R. Howley
Marcella Murray
Hanna Westi

Content warning: Death, fog, gore, suicidal ideations, strobing lights

This project was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and the Mental Insight Foundation.

2025

November 2025

Ready For Company and Other Family Tales

By Kim Ima

November 6 – 23, 2025 8 PM / Sundays at 4PM

The Downstairs @ La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

66 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003

TICKETS

Adults: $30 / Students/Seniors: $25 / La MaMa Members: $10

First ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)

ABOUT

Ready For Company and Other Family Tales: a one-woman show of family and legacy. Stories, music, longings, a Jewish-Japanese-American family tree – and cake.

CREDITS

Writer/performer: Kim Ima

Director: Megan Paradis Hanley

Dramaturg: Kendall Cornell

Lighting: Federico Restrepo

Costumes: Gabriel Berry

Sound: Leonie Bell

October 2025

The Brick presents
Vivian Oblivion
by Cameron Stuart
October 9-12, 2025 at 8PM
at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave
Tickets $25-50
Running time: 1 hour

Three women gather in darkness to tell the story of the end of the Many Mothers — an event caused by the unexpected arrival of Vivian Oblivion, a strange entity from Outer Space.

Vivian Oblivion is a performable book, a text designed for traditional book reading AND generating performance art. This presentation is written and produced by Cameron Stuart and will feature performances devised by Matthew Antoci, Leonie Bell, and Rawya El Chab, each one using portions of the text. The book will also be available to the audience to view and purchase.

Find them: @cameroncstuart @antociantoci @rawyaelchab @leonbellstein

Photography: Edwina Hay / Performers: Leonie Bell + Rawya El Chab

July 2025

The Gambler

on Tour @ Le Mondo in Baltimore, MD

July 25th - 27th, 2025

Created + performed by Rawya El Chab + Kelly Lamanna / Directed by Leonie Bell / Stage Manager Lianne Elsouki / Projection & Set Design by Ettie Pin / Light design by Jacqueline Scaletta / Sound design by Omar Dewachi / Illusion Design by Jesse Freedman / Nic Adams (Co-Producer) / Carly Bales (Co-Producer) / The Exponential Festival (Co-presenter + Funder) / Le Mondo (Co-presenter)

The Gambler is a tale of debauchery, inspired loosely by Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name. It follows two old women, Doris and Gertie, who bust out of the nursing home, only to spiral into a world of gambling and sin at the end of their lives. Creator-performers Rawya El Chab and Kelly Lamanna dance the line between absurdity and sincerity, posing questions about agency, addiction, and society’s relationship with the elderly. In a moment when the weight of mortality feels particularly heavy, these two clowns attempt to make sense of being alive.

Photography: Carly Bales

March 2025

The Stinking Nose: A Knofi-Mahlzeit (Collaboration with Brandon Woolf + Matt Korahais) //

March 5 + 6: A 2-night work-in-progress show in in Brooklyn, NY / Lenapehoking

Photography: Lee Rayment
January 2025