Leslie Buxbaum is a writer and director often working on devised theater productions, which bring together different performance languages such as dance-theater, circus-theater, clown-theater, and music-theater. Her current projects include being book writer and co-lyricist for Out Here (in development at Court Theatre) with composer/lyricist Erin McKeown and David J. Levin. Buxbaum has been the collaborating director for more than a decade with Lucky Plush Productions, whose dance-theater productions have received the National Dance Project Award, National Theater Project Award, and the National Performance Network creation fund award. Her projects as stage director with Third Coast Percussion include “Metamorphosis” with Movement Art Is (Lil Buck & Jon Boogz), “Paddle to the Sea,” and “Wild Sound,” composed by Wilco’s Glenn Kotche, which have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. Buxbaum is Associate Professor of Practice in Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.