Leif Larson

Leif Larson is a Queer playwright. He was born in Los Angeles during the Summer of Love. Cults were everywhere and he was born into one – raised by New Age vampires who fed off his youth and ritually dosed him with psycho-hallucinogenic drugs.

He came out at a time when being gay felt like a death sentence. Bereft of elders who were taken by AIDS, his work highlights the importance of Queer Theater as a ritualistic exchange of stories and experiences that are critical to the survival of our community.

In 2023, at the Valdez Theater Conference, his play, Shake the Disease, received a staged reading and in 2024 it was produced for the Downtown Urban Arts Festival on Theatre Row and for The Queerly Festival at FRIGID New York. His newest play, cum rag, was part of The Spark Festival at the Emerging Artist Theatre in NYC.