Leslie Kimbell (writer, actor, director, designer) gained the majority of her life experience and salty sense of humor from 22 years traveling the world as a Burlesque Headliner. Her first play, Four Old Broads, is inspired by memories of her Nannie DeVries and Aunt Sissie Bumpus, who were always hysterical and sassy old broads. Four Old Broads simultaneously won two festivals in 2017 at Centre Stage Greenville in Greenville, South Carolina and Theatre Victoria in Victoria, Texas. Broads also received an AEA Workshop at The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City 2017. Leslie is thrilled and honored to have been mentored by the amazing Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies).

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Leslie now resides in Northeast Georgia, where she works with and serves on the board of several area theaters. In October 2021, Leslie was presented with the Georgia Theatre Conference Hall of Fame Award for her dedication to theatre and play writing. Leslie is always somewhere busy as actor or director and occasionally set painter, concessions seller and floor sweeper. She is also the eternally exhausted mother of two handsome boys, Cameron and Logan, and wife of Scott. As an actor, Leslie has appeared on television in Swamp Murders, Snapped, Murder Decoded and House of Payne. She also had supporting roles in the films Buried Cain, The Midnight Man and Some Kind of Christmas.

For more information about Leslie and her other plays Four Old Broads On The High Seas, Packing Up Polly and The Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant, visit her website at www.lesliekimbell.com or facebook.com/lesliekimbell.