The past year of Leslye Headland’s work has been a love letter to her teenage self.
The multitalented screenwriter-director-showrunner-playwright is on the eve of closing her acclaimed Broadway debut “Cult of Love,” a project she jumped headfirst into after finishing the edit on her 2024 Disney+ Star Wars series “The Acolyte.”
“Broadway is a big deal. And I would say to 13-year-old Leslye, to do a Star Wars story then Broadway? It’s mind blowing,” Headland recently shared with Variety.
The “Russian Doll” co-creator’s upbringing is top of mind in “Cult of Love,” which was originally staged at the Berkeley Rep. The relentless dramedy about the deterioration of
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