The past year of Leslye Headland’s work has been a love letter to her teenage self. The multitalented screenwriter-director-showrunner-playwright is on the eve of closing her acclaimed Broadway ...

Cult of Love has its origins in Headland’s “Seven Deadly Plays” series for the Los Angeles-based IAMA Theatre Company. First staged at IAMA in 2018, Cult of Love examines the sin of ...

“I think addiction is the best way to describe being stuck in a sin,” explains Cult of Love author Leslye Headland, “because I don't see sin as like a transgression. I see sin as something ...

Leslye Headland's Cult of Love, which premiered on Broadway in 2024, is now officially in the works with Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum attached as producers. Headland is set to adapt her script ...

If you’re picturing an assault on Christianity, an easy and popular target among artists in recent years, think again: Ms. Headland has something more nuanced in mind, and for all the crackling ...

A feature film adaptation of Leslye Headland's stage play Cult of Love is in development. Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum are set to produce the feature adaptation of the play under their Gloria ...

Headland, though, is more interested in what holds a family together rather than in what pulls them apart, although she stocks her 100-minute, single-scene, real-time play with countless examples ...

The past year of Leslye Headland’s work has been a love letter to her teenage self. The multitalented screenwriter-director-showrunner-playwright is on the eve of closing her acclaimed Broadway ...