Leah Benavides Rodriguez

Leah Benavides Rodriguez is from Houston, Texas. After graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy conservatory in New York, she emerged a rising star on the independent theater circuit as a writer and director. In 2011, she was accepted into the prestigious Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She then founded her own theater company, and her production of Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth earned rave reviews in Backstage, Show Business Weekly, and Cultural Capital, receiving a nomination for Best Revival of a Play at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards.