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Artist’s Corner with Leelee Stranger

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Leelee Stranger is a Finnish-American Film-maker, Actor and Playwright. Her debut play “REBELLION DOGS” was a semifinalist in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Convention in 2018. She trained as an acrobat at Circus Pilots 2004-2005 (Stockholm,Sweden) and as an actor with Jim Parrack and Andrea Dantas at Playhouse West Brooklyn Lab (2015-2017). She played Blanche DuBois in a “Streetcar Named Desire” at College of Marin in California, before relocating to NYC. Credits include “Traveling with Ani” 2016 (lead, co-writer), “Auratus” 2018 (lead, co-writer), “Elf Meets Man- An exploration into modern dating” 2019 (Co-writer, lead, director), and “SLAW” 2019 (Writer, lead, director). Leelee is a founding member, along with Jake Sofaer, of the production company Escape from Apgar House. She lives in Brooklyn but will go anywhere to get that perfect shot. 

Q. If you are in recovery, what was your Drug of Choice and when did you discontinue its use? 
A. I liked heroin. First I free-based mexican tar for several years and then got into sniffing china white. I got sober on December 1st, 2013.

Q. Do you believe artists are made or born? 
A. I think the creative impulse is something everyone is born with- but artists feel it harder and are beholden to it (personally I get depressed if I don’t have a creative outlet.) So in that sense I think artists are born. But ACTUALIZING your artistry is another matter. That takes work, commitment, discipline- in that way an artist is made.

Q. Who is your favorite celebrity in recovery? 
A. Dax Shepard  

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