Leslie Buxbaum is Director of Creative Research and Associate Professor of the Practice in the Arts in UChicago’s Theater and Performance Studies Program. Current projects include being bookwriter and co-lyricist for OUT HERE, which will premier at Court Theatre in Spring 2026. As co-founder and resident director of the Chicago-based physical theater company 500 Clown (2000-2010), her projects include 500 Clown Macbeth, 500 Clown Frankenstein, 500 Clown Christmas, and 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal. 500 Clown shows performed in Chicago at Steppenwolf and Lookingglass Theatre, among others, and toured throughout the US, receiving an Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant.
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