Leslie Pasternack is an actor, director, playwright, mask-maker and dramaturg working on the NH/MA seacoast. She holds her Ph.D. in Theatre History from the University of Texas at Austin and is also a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. She spent nine years teaching theatre history and acting on the college level, first at Northeastern University in Boston and then at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She has also taught workshops in stage combat, mask performance, commedia, and physical presentation at Dartmouth College, Methodist University, the Actors Studio of Newburyport, Murphy’s Kickboxing, and Zero Point Theatre. Her masked solo shows have played in Allentown, Newburyport, New York City, Portsmouth, and Providence. In 2011, Leslie directed Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Mike Kimball’s Best Enemies, and toured her masked solo show, Clean Room. Presently, she is a teaching artist with New Hampshire Theatre Project and serves as Associate Director of the Artists’ Collaborative Theatre of New England (ACTONE). She also mentors an incarcerated playwright through the PEN American Center’s Prison Writing Program.
To watch a video of Leslie and her mask characters being interviewed by members of the Oyster River High School Media class, click here:
Contact: Leslie@lesliepasternack.com