Leah Nanako Winkler is a half Japanese  playwright who grew up between Kamakura and Lexington, Kentucky. Plays include  THE INTERNET (New York Times),   DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK , HAPPY DANCE DANCE PRINCESS SHOW!!!!! , DIVERSITY AWARENESS PICNIC, as well as many short plays. With playwright Teddy Nicholas, she cowrote DEAD PEOPLE ( Ice Factory 2011) and Flying Snakes in 3-D!!! (Flavorpill Critics Pick). Her work has been seen  at places like the Ontological Hysteric/Incubator Arts Project, MagicFutureBox, The Brick, HERE Arts Center , 3LD Technology Center , Dixon Place, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Ohio Theatre, Ars Nova, Prelude Festival NYC, Source Festival in Washington, DC, Thinking Cap Theatre/Empire Stage in Florida and developed at Cherry Lane, New Georges, Bushwick Starr, The Flea Theater,  IRT Theatre,  New York Theatre Workshop and the Society Hill Playhouse in Philly.   Leah was a  2008-2009 short form resident at the Ontological Hysteric Theater with Everywhere Theatre Group- a theater company she cofounded,   a current member of Youngblood , an alumnus of Terra Nova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwright Group and an affiliated artist at New Georges. She has received a A/P/A commission from the Japanese American National Museum in 2008 and 2009 for researching and writing about hapa (biracial Asian and white) identity and participated in a  fellowship from Ryder Farm along with NYC Food Play team ( production coming up in 2013).  She also writes television pilots and tweets.  @leahnanako