Lenelle N. Moise

Lenelle Moïse is a poet, playwright, performance artist, and screenwriter. She wrote, composed, and co-starred in the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway drama Expatriate. Her Ruby Prize-winning comedy Merit was featured on the 2016 Kilroys List. Her other full-length plays include The Many Faces of Nia and K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Lenelle was the Spring 2018 Playwright-in-Residence at Ithaca College, the 2017 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing, and a Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow. She has received commissions, awards and/or play development residencies from the Gaea Foundation, Southern Rep, Hedgebrook, the Astraea Foundation, Clark University, New Rep, Northwestern University, UT Austin, and Women Center Stage at the Culture Project. She has written short works for Center Stage Baltimore ("Taurus Tornado" for My America) and The New Black Fest ("San Francisco Cab" for UnTamed). Ms. Moïse is also an internationally touring solo performer. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Her book of poetry, Haiti Glass, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and a winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature. At age 20, she co-wrote the screenplay Sexual Dependency, a film by Bolivian director Rodrigo Bellot.