Leslye Headland was born on 1981 in Los Angeles, California, United States, is Writer, Director, Producer. Leslye Headland was born on November 26, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Leslye Ann Headland. She is a writer and director, known for Bachelorette (2012), Sleeping with Other People (2015) and Terriers (2010). She has been married to Rebecca Henderson since September 18, 2016.
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Biography/Timeline
1981
Leslye Headland (born 1981) is an American Playwright, Screenwriter, and Director. She is best known for the play and 2012 film Bachelorette. Her 2012 play Assistance was sold to NBC as a television series to star Krysten Ritter.
1999
Headland, raised in Westport, Connecticut, graduated in 1999 from Staples High School. She received her BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2002.
2008
Assistance premiered in 2008 and was staged in 2012 at the New York theatre space Playwrights Horizons. Television rights were acquired by NBC, to be executive-produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay; Krysten Ritter, of the ABC series Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 is set to both star and executive produce.
2012
In 2012, the film version of Headland's play Bachelorette premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Headland directed from her own script; the film co-starred Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher as three troubled women who reunite for the wedding of a friend (played by Rebel Wilson) who was ridiculed in high school.
2014
Headland is the Screenwriter of the 2014 remake of the film About Last Night, itself an adaptation of the 1974 David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
2015
In 2015 Headland directed Sleeping with Other People based on her own script, which starred Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.