Education
M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University, 1991
B.A. in Drama, University of California, 1980
Publications
Book Chapters
Leondar-Wright, Gail, and Stacy Wolf. “Sondheim Regendered.” In Sondheim in Performance, edited by Elizabeth A. Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2027 (forthcoming).
Digital & Public Scholarship
Leondar-Wright, Gail. “Matter That Matters: Religiosity in Here We Are.” Sondheim Hub, Substack, 2025.
Teaching Experience
Expert, Roundtable by the 92nd St Y, 2026–Present
Study Group Leader, OLLI at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA), 2024–Present
Adjunct Professor, Lasell Village Independent Senior Living (Newton, MA), 2022–Present
Instructor, OLLI at The University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), 2024
Study Group Leader, OLLI at UMass Boston (Boston, MA), 2022–2024
Study Group Leader, OLLI at Tufts University (Medford, MA), 2021–2025
Guest Instructor, San Diego State University, MFA Program in Musical Theatre, 2023
Lecturer, Pasadena Playhouse (“Talking” Sondheim series of four lectures supporting productions of Sondheim musicals), 2023
Lecturer, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston / Boston Public Library (“Assassins: How Sondheim depends upon our knowledge of American song forms to deliver a punch in this powerful musical”), 2023
Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology IAP Seminar (“Sondheim: An Appreciation”), 2021
Other Professional Activities
Convener and Facilitator, Sondheim Study Group (2019–Present): Facilitate a monthly conversational group of serious Sondheim enthusiasts. Featured guest artists and scholars have included John Weidman, Rick Pender, Ted Chapin, Mark Eden Horowitz, Annie Morrison, and Pam Myers.
Facilitator and Interviewer, “Pacific Overtures 50th Anniversary Round Table” (featuring book writer John Weidman and actors BD Wong, Francis Jue, and Edward Barnes), 2026.
Co-Interviewer, BroadwayCon (Writing with Sondheim: A Conversation with John Weidman), 2025.
Presenter, BroadwayCon (“I Know Things Now: Remembering Stephen Sondheim”), 2024.