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William (Bill) Leavengood (March 11, 1960) is an American playwright and director.

Early Life and Education
Leavengood attended Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Career
Leavengood is the author of over 50 plays, screenplays and books for musicals. He is an alumnus of Circle Repertory, a member of the Circle East Theatre Company (NYC), the Dramatists’ Guild, and the Writers’ Guild Of America. His new one-act, Lady Obscura, was produced in New York in June 2019 by New Circle Theater Company’s as part of their Inferno Project

Leavengood’s short play, Steve, was presented at the Town Hall Theatre in New York as part of Brave New World: The American Theater responds to 9/11, and subsequently made into a short film starring Fisher Stevens.

His Off-Broadway credits include Special on Theatre Row; Little Mary at the Sanford Meisner Theatre starring Monica Raymund; The Head at the Chelsea Playhouse; The Preservation Society, directed by Casey Childs, at Primary Stages; and Florida Crackers, directed by John Bishop, with dramaturgy by Lanford Wilson and starring John C McGinley which premiered as part of the Circle Repertory Company’s 20th Anniversary Season.

Leavengood's play, 17 Black was chosen for the National Playwrights Conference [NPC] at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and subsequently received the Brodkin Scholarship Award. Leavengood was invited to return to the NPC in 1995 with his play, The Preservation Society, for which he received the inaugural Edith Oliver Fellowship Award.

What is Art? was produced at the GeVa Theatre in Rochester, NY as part of the New Reflections Festival, and subsequently revived at the Court Theater in Los Angeles, starring Ian Ziering.

Leavengood wrote and directed Webb’s City: The Musical, a semi-historical musical about the life of Doc Webb and Webb's City. It was produced at the Mahaffey Theater, Ruth Eckerd Hall, and the Palladium at St. Petersburg College. He also wrote the book and lyrics for Crossing the Bay, a new musical about old Florida and the founding of St. Petersburg.

In 2017, he wrote and directed the short film, Paleo Man, which premiered at the Sunscreen Film Festival.

He has been teaching theatre, playwriting and film at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida for 24 years. In addition, he is the Adjunct Professor of Playwriting at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.