Jim Leonard

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING And More Set for Golden West College Theater Arts 2025�"2026 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 10, 2025

Golden West College Theater Arts has unveiled its 2025–2026 season lineup, featuring four full productions to be staged in the 326-seat Mainstage Theater on the Huntington Beach campus.

Circle X Theatre Co. Reveals 2025/2026 Evolving Playwrights Group Participants
by Stephi Wild - May 22, 2025

Circle X Theatre Co. has announced the next cohort of playwrights and artists-in-conversation for our 2025-2026 Evolving Playwrights Group. Learn more here!

THE DIVINERS to be Presented at Selah Theatre Project
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 6, 2024

Selah Theatre Project will present THE DIVINERS by Jim Leonard, Jr., in partnership with Laurel Ridge Community College and 2 for 2 Foundation. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

The New Harmony Project Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Writers' Residency
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 19, 2024

The New Harmony Project is now accepting applications for the 38th annual Writers’ Residency. Learn how to apply.

Circle X Theatre Co. Hosts 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group Live Reading Series
by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2024

Circle X Theatre Co. will present a live reading series from our Evolving Playwrights Group, culminating its 2023-2024 season. S

Circle X Theatre Co. Reveals 2023/2024 Evolving Playwrights Group
by Stephi Wild - Aug 29, 2023

Circle X Theatre Co. has announced the newest participants and mentors for its 2023-2024 Evolving Playwrights Group, a new play development program dedicated to supporting the development of ambitious, impossible new works for the stage by groundbreaking and provocative playwrights.

The New Harmony Project Now Accepting Applications For 2024 Conference
by Stephi Wild - Aug 14, 2023

The New Harmony Project announced that it is now accepting applications for the 37th annual conference to be held May 22-June 2, 2024.

Circle X Theatre Co. Announces 2023/2024 Evolving Playwrights Group
by Blair Ingenthron - Apr 8, 2023

With support from The Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Circle X Theatre Co. has invited Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to the 2023 - 2024 Evolving Playwrights Group (EPG).

Interview: Playwright Jim Leonard on the L.A. premiere of ANATOMY OF GRAY
by Shari Barrett - Nov 18, 2022

Jim Leonard has published eight plays, including The Diviners, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, and Battle Hymn, with his theatrical honors including the Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ovation Award, the Dramatists Guild Award, and an LA Weekly Award for best play.

L.A. Premiere of ANATOMY OF GRAY to be Presented by Open Fist in November
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 11, 2022

Directed by Ben Martin (Open Fist’s Under Milk Wood), the LA premiere of Anatomy of Gray is set for a November 19, 2022 opening at Atwater Village Theatre, where performances continue through January 21, 2023.

Circle X Theatre Co. Presents 2022 Evolving Playwrights Group Live Reading Series
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 7, 2022

With support from The Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Circle X Theatre Co. presents: The Evolving Playwrights Group 2022 Live Reading Series

Playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu, Lucy Thurber & More Join New Harmony Project
by Stephi Wild - May 3, 2022

The New Harmony Project, an organization dedicated to supporting writers interrogating the complexity of hope, has announced that they will continue in-person programming with their 35th annual spring conference in idyllic New Harmony, Indiana.

Playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu, Lucy Thurber & More Join New Harmony Project
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 21, 2022

The New Harmony Project, an organization dedicated to supporting writers interrogating the complexity of hope, has announced that they will continue in-person programming with their 35th annual spring conference in idyllic New Harmony, Indiana.

Circle X Theatre Co. Announces 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group Participants
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 5, 2022

Circle X Theatre Co. has selected participants and mentors for the 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group, a group for groundbreaking and provocative voices to dedicate their time, energy, and attention to developing ambitious, brand new plays.

Circle X Theatre Co. Announces 2021/2022 Evolving Playwrights Group
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 9, 2021

Circle X Theatre Company invites Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to our 2021-2022 Evolving Playwrights Group (EPG). The Evolving Playwrights Group is a group for groundbreaking and provocative voices in the theatre to dedicate their time, energy, and attention to developing ambitious, brand new plays-the plays that have felt 'impossible' to write.

Circle X Theatre Co. Presents 2021 Evolving Playwrights Group Virtual Reading Series
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 5, 2021

Culminating its inaugural season, Circle X Theatre Co. will present the reading series from their Evolving Playwrights Group. Five emerging and mid-career playwrights, paired with mentors/playwrights in conversation, were challenged to create the play they were scared to write. This series celebrates those stories.

Student Blog: The Whole Truth
by Student Blogger: Madalyn Macko - Apr 8, 2021

The intrigue that authenticity alone brings to a performance is enough to make any actor stop and study it like their life depends on it.

BWW Blog: 2020 - A Reflection
by Student Blogger: Holden Childress - Nov 30, 2020

2020 has been quite the rollercoaster ride, huh?

BWW Blog: Coming Full Circle
by Student Blogger: Holden Childress - Jul 31, 2020

This pandemic hasna??t just affected Broadway. Ita??s postponed and even cancelled performances nationwide. Community theaters had to close their doors.

Circle X Theatre Co. Announces Evolving Playwrights Group
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 30, 2020

Circle X Theatre Co. invites Los Angeles-based playwrights to apply to our emerging and mid-career writers' group. We seek writers who align with a shifting professional identity-that is, artists whose careers are on their way to becoming what they seek to be. We encourage playwrights to pitch the 'play they are scared to write,' the play that has been sitting in their imagination for some time or has come about in this moment of stillness and for whatever reason-impossibility of language, form, or subject-has not been written.