(photo: Matt Harvey)
Berkie Award Nomination
Leigh Strimbeck has been nominated for a Berkie (Berkshire Theatre Critics Award) for best actress for the 2022 Bridge Street Theatre production of Lion in Winter directed by John Sowle.
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The Lion in Winter
Playing Eleanor of Aquitane
in The Lion in Winter
by James Goldman
directed by John Sowle
Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY
November 10-20, 2022
Thu-Sat 7:30, Sun 2PM
For more information visit: https://bridgest.org/the-lion-in-winter/
A Nagging Feeling Best Not Ignored
Directed by Leigh Strimbeck:
A Nagging Feeling Best Not Ignored
Written & Performed by Roland Tec
50 min. solo Zoom play born of the past disorienting two years +
Wednesdays: July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 – 8PM
For more information visit: https://www.hearmeoutmonologues.com/a-nagging-feeling
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
COME SEE ME AS LEONATA
in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Saratoga Shakespeare Company July 20-23, 2022
For more information visit: https://saratogashakespeare.org/much-ado-about-nothing-july-2022/
LEWISTON
Soon appearing as Alice in LEWISTON by Samuel D. Hunter at the
Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill October 7-17, 2021
Audiences Vaxxed + Masked
More info:
https://bridgest.org/lewiston/
The Queen of Fenway Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner
Come see me in:
The Queen of Fenway Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner
Written + performed by Leigh Strimbeck
Music by Jan Jurchak, directed by Joshua Briggs
August 4, 2021: Great Barrington Public Theater Wet Ink series greatbarringtonpublictheater.org
August 15 + 17, 2021: Gloucester Stage Company NeverDark series gloucesterstage.com
ALMOST YOU
“Almost You” written by Leigh Strimbeck, directed by Jim Frangione and Diane Pearlman, performed by Anne Undeland, produced by Great Barrington Stage Summer Shorts and Berkshire Media and Film Collaborative was released in January 2021.
For more information visit: https://www.greatbarringtonpublictheater.org/berkshire-outdoor-shorts
The Queen of Fenway Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner
Thursday, August 6th – Sunday, August 9th, 2020
The Queen of Fenway Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner
Written and Performed by Leigh Strimbeck
Directed by Josh Briggs | Original music by Jan Jurchak
“Strimbeck is on camera in this “Theatre on Film” production during the entire 56 minutes, and neither the camera nor the audience can get enough of her…Strimbeck channels Isabella and all her inconsistencies, quirkiness and charm. She wears both halo and crown and, in the blink of an eye, shifts from steely and unwavering to coquettish and fun-loving and back again to shrewd and fearless…all this makes for great storytelling and enchanting theater.”
From:
LIVING OUT LOUD: Gloucester Stage Unmasks Isabella Stewart Gardner in a Tour-de-Force Production written by Shelley A. Sackett
Breakwater
Come see me as “Cape Cod Doyenne” Tippy Dempsey in the premiere of Breakwater by Jim Frangione, directed by Kelly Galvin. So excited to be in the inaugural production of the Barrington Public Theater!
June 13th – June 23rd, 2019
Presented by Barrington Public Theater, on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock
For more information and tickets:
barringtonpublictheater.org
APRIL 2019
This year has been a year of transition. I decided to go back to my first love, acting. I no longer teach at Russell Sage College. I am freelancing with an agent in the city, and I’ve done a number of auditions for film and television. As of March 2019, I booked an independent film and two plays (see upcoming events).
I worked with Berkshire Playwrights Lab in Great Barrington, MA this winter, directing a piece by Marty Bongfeldt called Always for their Radius Festival. The BPL Radius Festival is a wonderful event, new work, big talent, always a positive and supportive atmosphere. I also did a reading of a new play by Jim Frangione.
It’s terrific and terrifying to be popping in and out of audition rooms again.
Stay tuned!
