Leesa Gazi is a Bangladeshi British author, theater practitioner, award-winning filmmaker, and joint artistic director of the London-based arts organization Komola Collective. She has dedicated her career to presenting stories from women’s perspectives. Multiple plays that she has written and translated have toured nationally and internationally. She was the cowriter and performer of the play Birangona: Women of War, nominated for the UK’s Offies Award, which she later developed into the documentary feature Rising Silence, which sheds light on the lives of sexual violence survivors in the aftermath of the Bangladesh liberation war. She has written, performed, and created content for many prestigious venues and organizations. |
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