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Directing.


HAMLETSPLAY

Freely adapted from Shakepeare’s Hamlet
The Bardo / March. 2026

The Domestiques

By Venus Cobb after Jean Genet’s The Maids
Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Aug. 2025

FAUSTPILLED

By Siena Foster-Soltis after Goethe’s Faust
Highways / Nov. 2024

Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train

By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Plaza de la Raza / Jan. 2025

Gross Old Man

Adapted by Whit Flint after Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
Riot Act / Sept. 2024

Fear of Kathy Acker

By Siena Foster-Soltis based on the novel by Jack Skelley
Illiusion Magic Lounge / Feb. 2024

America 17,776

Adapted from the novel by Jon Bois
Expo Festival / Apr. 2024

The Death of Walt Disney

By Lucas Hnath
CalArts / May 2023

FAUST

By Siena Foster-Soltis after Goethe’s Faust
CalArts Winter Lab / Jan. 2023

A Streetcar Named Desire

By Tennessee Williams
CalArts / Jan. 2022

(not) Seinfeld Live!

from the teleplay by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld
Coffeehouse Theater / Mar. 2023

The Twenty-Seven Club

Adapted from the works of Kurt Cobrain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mac Miller, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse
Misfit Toys Collective / Jan. 2020

Upcoming / In Development


Experience Cult Research Group
March 2026

In Development with Automata
April 2026 Development

Associate Directing. 


Umbra

Highways Performance Space / Dir. Hector Alvarez

Science Fiction

Riot Act / Dir. Whit Flint

Cloud Tectonics

Inner City Arts / Dir. Marissa Chibas

Here Be Sirens

Roy O. Disney Concert Hall / Dir. Hector Alvarez

Roberto Zucco

Walt Disney Modular Theater / Dir. Hector Alvarez

Scene with Cranes

REDCAT / Dir. Chi Wang-yang

The Royale

Rec Room Arts / Dir. Brandon Weinbrenner

Hansel & Gretel

Rec Room Arts / Dir. Matt Hune

Exit Strategy

Rec Room Arts / Dir. Matt Hune

Directing Workshops.


The Leauge of Youth

by Henrick Ibsen
CalArts Directing Lab

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare
CalArts Directing Lab

Betrayal

by Harold Pinter
CalArts Directing Lab

Sender

by Ike Holter
CalArts Directing Lab

About



Rory James Leech is a theatermaker and creative from the United Kingdom.

His work centers around communal relashionships to popular culture, ability and disability, and the influence of technology on our relashionships to ourselves and others. He is dedicated to presenting non-traditional performances in a variety of mediums, genres, and scales.

He has been involved in works presented at The Venice Biennale, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, REDCAT, The Walt Disney Modular Theater, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Highways Performance Space, Illusion Magic Lounge, Crawlspace LA, The Elysian Theater, Inner City Arts, Boxxie Studios, Non Plus Ultra, Hollywood Fringe, Rec Room Arts, and The Roy O. Disney Concert Hall.

He is the founder and artistic director of Misfit Toys Collective, a performance company dedicated to creating art by and for Gen Z. He is currently a project producer for The Useless Room and an Event Manager for Fever.  He has formerly served as a lead producer for Riot Act; an associate producer at the Center for New Performance, where he lead the CNP Podcast; as an associate producer at Lemonada Media, where he produced the award-winning investigative journalism podcast Believe Her, described as a "sensation" by Good Morning America; and as an Associate Producer of Rec Room Arts, where he was involved in the creation of experimental opera, ballet, and drama.  

He was honored as an Arts Advocate by The Dramatists Guild of America in 2017. He is a member of the 2023 Beth Morrison Projects Producers Academy. He is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and HSPVA.


Email: roryjamesleech@gmail.com
Social Media: @roryjamesleech  


Photo Credit: Tasha Gorel

                                           


















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