PERSON: Leslye Headland

Filmmaker

Leslye Headland (born 1980) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright. She is known for the play and 2012 film Bachelorette and 2015 film Sleeping with Other People. She co-created the Netflix series Russian Doll, along with Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler.

Headland, raised in suburban Maryland, graduated in 1999 from Staples High School. In 2002, she received her BFA in drama from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she attended Playwrights Horizons Theater School.

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