Who's That Girl?
At a young age, Leah knew that she was passionate about the performing arts. Born and raised on Long Island, New York, she started dancing when she was three years old and was obsessed with old movie musicals, such as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Summer Stock.
Leah eventually started listening to the Wicked soundtrack, which was based off of The Wizard of Oz's story, one of her childhood favorites. She fell in love with the character, Glinda, and every single day after kindergarten, she sang through the entire soundtrack (as every character) for her grandfather. She knew that she wanted to perform and tell stories for the rest of her life when she saw the Broadway musical at the age of five, and watched Glinda's first entrance by bubble in awe. To this day, Glinda is still Leah’s #1 dream role!
Years later, at the age of ten, Leah would play Dorothy Gale in her school’s summer theatre production of The Wizard of Oz, which then prompted her to determination to pursue a career in the performing arts.
Leah's Story!
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, shortly after Leah made her regional theatre debut in Theatre Three's annual production of A Christmas Carol, Leah took every opportunity she could to continue doing what she loved most, which included training online with several prestigious acting studios, including the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Long Island High School for the Arts, where she was a Musical Theatre major. Throughout the rest of her high school career, Leah notably received the East End Arts Teeny Award for Best Leading Role in a Play for her portrayal of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Long Island Scholar Artist Award for Theatre, where her story and performance highlights were featured in a Newsday article.
In the summer of 2024, Leah had the privilege to perform on the 54 Below stage in Sound Mind, Sound Heart, a benefit concert supporting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. As a vocal mental health activist, Leah was so grateful to have been a part of this project and have the honor of sharing the stage with notable Broadway performers, such as Patrick Page and Paige Davis. In April 2025, she returned to the 54 Below stage to perform in a staged reading of select musical scenes from The Soprano's Revenge, a developing musical comedy.
Leah serves as a teaching artist for Stage 74 Summer Theater, a pre-professional program designed for young artists located in New York. Leah had the opportunity to be a part of Stage 74's adult company, The Star Playhouse, for their 2023-2024 season, where she appeared in their professional productions of The Crucible as Mary Warren, Into the Woods as Rapunzel, and The Music Man as a member of the ensemble, with the additional role of being the production's dance captain. She was then invited back the next year to work closely with their theatre students. As part of her job, Leah develops and teaches choreography for two full-scale musical productions and leads workshops in areas such as audition technique, commercial acting, stage combat, and improvisation.
Currently, Leah is pursuing her B.A. in Theatre Performance (with a minor in Psychology!) at Wagner College in New York City. At Wagner, she is over the moon to serve as a teaching assistant for Broadway veteran John Scacchetti's Tap I class. While in school, Leah has pursued several professional opportunities in the city, including Annie at Spotlight Repertory Theatre, a staged reading of Out East: A New Musical Comedy at Ripley-Grier Studios, and cabaret performances at The Green Room 42 and Don't Tell Mama. Recently, she wrapped filming in the New York metropolitan area as a featured dancer in her first pilot of a television series, titled Broadcasting 101.
When Leah isn't performing, she's most likely spending time with her friends, shopping for something pink, drinking a strawberry lemon Poppi, cuddling with her two cats, rewatching Sex and the City, reading a rom-com or psychological thriller, or living out her dream of being (working as) a princess at Royal Princess Prep!