playwright and actor
Writer and star of the play The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
PROFILE
James Lecesne
Guest
FROM James Lecesne
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
'The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey' Here’s the opening scene of a new play: A middle-aged New Jersey police detective is talking to the audience and he’s quoting Shakespeare. It’s a little weird. Then it gets weirder… the cop turns into a female hair salon owner, then she becomes a 16-year-old girl, who later becomes a British community theater director. All of these characters and more are performed by James Lecesne in his one-man play currently running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. He speaks to Madeleine about the show.
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