Jamie Leo's visual work includes legendary Spy magazine covers, being a key designer on Broadway's 'Rent', and numerous theatrical productions and art installations internationally. He has been published in The Drama Review, Huffington Post, OUT, and others, and his award-winning creative direction has been seen in national campaigns for major corporations (including IBM, National Geographic, and Scholastic). He is an Edward Albee Writing Fellow and author of seven produced plays and two musicals. In addition to having held numerous creative residencies, he has written national sustainability and public health campaigns, and an award-winning campaign for New York City's recycling program. For the Henson Foundation, he developed a groundbreaking digital puppetry performative work at St. Ann's Warehouse. He performed his 'Long Day in a Bad Shirt' monologues with real-time projected image-mapping at Dixon Place; his work 'The Night Hides a World' (about his experience of being invited to present a workshop on creativity at the University of Tehran) has been performed in New York and regionally. 'In What You Call The Dark', his play about sight and blindness, was given a reading at New York Theatre Workshop and is in development, as is his theatrical work '68 (with composer Paul Leschen), which received excellent reviews for its premier workshop production at the New York Musical Festival. As a multidisciplinary writer and visual artist, Leo adjudicates in design and writing competitions, including for the Smithsonian, SxSW, and Stanford's d.school. His fine art has shown in New York, international galleries, and Art Basel Miami. He enjoys doom scrolling, eating amply, and in his spare time he lives, dreadfully, alone.
