Leslie Kimbell Bio

Leslie Kimbell (writer, actor, director, designer and self-proclaimed drama queen) gained the majority of her insane life experiences and EXTREMELY salty sense of humor, from eighteen years of traveling the world as a top-billed and award winning burlesque headliner and model. 

Writing was something Leslie always dreamed of doing since high school.

"I was at an after rehearsal gab fest one night in 2014...and my friend Billie made a very salty and out of character joke that had me rolling on the floor. I remember saying HEY...that would be a great line in a play. I wrote it down on a napkin and put it on my desk next to my computer."

One day in the Spring of 2015, she found the napkin under her laptop and felt inspired...and sat down in front of her computer to start writing.

For some reason...it just poured out of me. Every day, I would put the children on the bus and then hurry back to my computer."

Her first play, FOUR OLD BROADS, is inspired by memories of her sassy and spunky Nannie DeVries and Aunt Sissie, who were always hysterical old broads. 

FOUR OLD BROADS simultaneously won two festivals in 2016 at Centre Stage Greenville in Greenville, South Carolina, and Theatre Victoria in Victoria, Texas. That same year, BROADS also received an AEA Workshop sponsored by Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company at The Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City.


The sold out and record breaking World Premiere of FOUR OLD BROADS opened March 3, 2017, at Winder Barrow Theatre under the direction of Léland Downs Karras.
FOUR OLD BROADS was then published with Samuel French, now Concord Theatricals, in 2018, and has enjoyed a very successful production history across the globe.

Since FOUR OLD BROADS, Leslie has written and published three more plays with Concord Theatricals

FOUR OLD BROADS ON THE HIGH SEAS - 2019

THE MISS MAGNOLIA SENIOR CITIZEN BEAUTY PAGEANT  -2021

PACKING UP POLLY - 2022

Leslie honored to have been coached and mentored by the amazingly wonderful Del Shores, Billie Nye-Muller and Kenny Wade Marshall. 

As an actor, Leslie has appeared in numerous theatrical productions and has directed productions at several area theatre companies.
She has also appeared on television in shows such as Nowhere U.S.A., Swamp Murders, Snapped, Killer Couples, Murder Decoded and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne as well as many commercials and industrial videos. She has also had supporting roles in the films Buried Cain, The Midnight Man, Some Kind of Christmas and Blue Lightning. 

Leslie is a proud Dramatist Guild Member, the recipient of Georgia Theatre Conference Hall of Fame Award 2021, and the Theatre Partners Chair on the board of The Del Shores Foundation.

Born in Tennessee, Leslie now resides in Athens, Georgia.

She is wife to Scott, Mother to Cameron and Logan, and Grandmother "Sassy" to Enzo Gianni.