Leslie Streit

Leslie Streit and Robin McCain became producing partners in the 1990s when they opened the Nouveau Theater a performance space inside a cannery. They created original works which synthesized art, dance, film, music, audience involvement. Most notably Vlad Draculea in the Year 2000 toured to the Edinburgh Festival then was reinvented as one the first serial dramas to appear on the Internet. Streit's 2005 God Wears My Underwear, a documentary-narrative hybrid, tied the 1940s Jewish Holocaust to the 1950s genocide in Tibet. It was screened at several international festivals and was awarded Best Film at the DNA Film Festival,Toronto. Honors include Selected Artist at the Hong Kong Arts Biennial 2002, a 2009 Webby and several screenplay awards. Streit was twice awarded the Producer's Mark (p.g.a.) for her documentary feature films, Elly and Henry (2017) and An American Ballet Story (2022). In 2021 Streit wrote, co-produced, designed and directed multi award winning 95 Days, about climate change. During 2022-2023 Streit and co-producer Robin McCain created a trilogy of experimental shorts entitled When I Become A Ghost which is now on tour to film festivals and international museums. Most recently they appeared in “The Surreal World-Special Edition” magazine and “101 Contemporary Artists”.