Leigh Hendrix

Leigh Hendrix is a theatre artist first introduced to performance, like many dramatically inclined  girls and boys in South Carolina, through dance recitals and church musicals.

Now based in Providence, RI, Leigh has danced with DoubleShift Dance Theatre and Boston-based choreographer Wanda Strukus. She created the role of Sadie in Kit Idazak’s The Golden Lasso at Perishable Theatre’s 15th Annual Women’s Playwriting Festival and collaborated on Annie H. Kee’s new work The Iphigenia Project in the role of Clytemnestra at Emerson College in Boston. Leigh has also played Matt Damon in Theatre of Thought’s site specific performances of Matt and Ben in apartments across Rhode Island. Her solo performance work How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less was developed at Emerson College and as a Resident Artist at Providence’s Perishable Theatre. The piece had its regional premier in the Berkshires as part of WAM Theatre’s Oh Solo Mama Mia Festival in May 2011.

Leigh is passionate about making new work with theatre artist of all shapes and sizes; she received her master’s degree in Theatre Education at Emerson College and works as a teaching artist with The Gamm Theatre , The Manton Avenue Project, and Riverside Theatre Works.