Leila Buck (producer/performer/dramaturg) is a Lebanese-American performer, writer and teaching artist. She is the Artistic Director of Nisaa Arab American Women’s Collective, a founding member of Nibras and a Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop. Leila has performed her one-woman shows, ISite, In The Crossing, and Hkeelee, across the country and around the world. She performed her newest piece, In the Crossing in Nibras and NYTW’s evenings of New Work Now at the Public Theater alongside the work of Kia Corthron, Karen Hartman and Naomi Wallace. Leila’s acting credits include film, voice and theater work in New York (at venues from HERE Arts Center to the Fringe Fest to Symphony Space), and regional work from Williamstown to Los Angeles. Leila has conducted workshops on dramatic storytelling, creating new work, and drama for cross-cultural engagement at conferences, high schools, universities and cultural centers in the U.S., Europe and China. Her writing and performance work have been featured in Lebanon's Daily Star and the New York Times and on Brian Lehrer Live and WBAI NY public radio. Leila is currently completing her Master’s in Drama for Education about the Arab World at NYU. She is conversationally fluent in French, Spanish and Arabic and has lived, worked and traveled in more than 17 countries in Europe and the Arab World.