Leigh Strimbeck, B.F.A.
Assistant Professor, Theatre

Leigh Strimbeck is an actor, director, writer and acting teacher. Her college education included two years at Bennington College and two years at New York University, where she graduated with a BFA in Dance/Drama.  Leigh began teaching in New York City 30 years ago at the Actors and Directors Lab, and has taught almost continuously since then.  Later, she moved to Sweden, taught theater, and toured with a children’s theater company for a year.  Upon her return to the US she joined the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE) in Bloomsburg, PA and continued to teach, perform and direct. 

During the twelve years with BTE Leigh acted in dozens of plays and served as Ensemble Director for three years. She was a site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts.  Leigh traveled with BTE during a USIA tour of Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia.  The following year she returned to Zimbabwe for five weeks to adjudicate the National Theater Organization of Zimbabwe’s Theatre festival and to teach workshops.

Currently she is serving as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York where she has created and directed Mirror, Mirror, works about young women, body image, and the pressure to be perfect.  In 2010 Leigh worked on a new piece with the women of Sage, I'm Not a Feminist, But...

This year Leigh is founding and working as co-artistic director of WAM Theatre (Women’s Action Movement Theatre) and working with the New York State Defender’s Institute as a communications coach for their annual conferences.