Leanne Griffin (she/her) has a Master's Degree in Drama, and has taught both university and high school drama. She has written, directed and produced three plays for Fringe Theatre Festivals. Leanne has also written and directed sixteen plays for high school students, winning Best Overall Production fourteen times at Regional Festivals, and winning Best Overall Production three times at Provincials with her productions of The History of Dating, Dust, and The Hotel. Leanne’s plays One Giant Leap, Summer Camp, The Circus of Grimm, Dust, Dancing With Myself and The History of Dating have been performed across Canada and the United States. Her script Bluebeard’s Chamber was selected for inclusion in the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre Spring Festival of New Plays at Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon. The SUM Theatre First Monday series of staged readings of new Saskatchewan plays included her script Personal Space. Her play A Ghost Named Hank: The Haunting of Greystone Theatre was selected as one of five commissioned plays to celebrate 80 years of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan.
