The next round of The Leah will open in November 2025.
Thank you to everyone who joined us on May 19th at Shares at LaMama for the reading of our first Boost commission:
The Boy King from Queens by Tammy Ryan written in conversation with Leah Ryan’s The Wire.
Top: The Boy King In Queens — by Tammy Ryan and directed by Jessi D. Hill
featuring: Jane Cooper, Diane Davis, Aaron Costa Ganis, Brynn Gauthier, Iván Marcel & David Mason
Bottom: The Wire – by Leah Ryan and directed by Dev Bondarin & Ed Cheetham
featuring Sam Andrews, Senna Prasatthong, Tina Stafford & Jim Stanek
(photos by Buck Lewis)
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Our Mission
The Leah Ryan Fund helps sustain and support writers facing individual challenges and systemic oppression so they can keep writing, connecting, creating, and thriving. The Fund currently offers an annual playwriting prize (The Leah) and an annual award for writers facing a serious illness (The Vladimir), and the newly created commission (The Boost).
The Leah Ryan Fund was established in 2008 to honor the memory of Leah Ryan, a woman of letters who wrote plays, poetry, essays, lyrics, adaptations, and collaborated with performance artists.