Lex Leifheit

Bio
For more than 10 years, Lex Leifheit has been a passionate advocate for the arts and community development. She helped launch  Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center and oversaw adult programming and exhibitions as the Center’s Assistant Director. She has produced and hosted a radio show about community-based arts, directed award-winning plays, founded a writers collective, lived and worked in an artist co-op, and studied at the Moscow Art Theater. She is currently the Executive Director of SOMArts Cultural Center (South of Market Arts, Resources, Technology and Services), one of four city-owned cultural center facilities in San Francisco, and serves on the steering committee of the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals.

Leifheit received her Master of Arts Liberal Studies degree from Wesleyan University and attended Drake University on full scholarship, where she received a BFA in Theater Performance.

Here is a recent video of Leifheit talking about her work at SOMArts.

Skills

Ten+ years of performing, visual and literary arts programming experience; curricula development for all ages; fluent in community arts and arts advocacy; award-winning theater director and published arts writer; experienced fundraiser and teacher.

Previous employers include Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center and Center for the Arts in Middletown, Connecticut, as well as the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT). Leifheit has served as an artistic associate of Secret Theatre, board member for the Middletown Foundation for the Arts, and vice president of the North End Artists Cooperative.

She lives in San Francisco, California.

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Contact
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