Leah Shannon is an actress, screenwriter, and director based in the PNW.
In April of 2023, Leah was awarded the Irene Ryan Award for acting at the Region 7 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She attended nationals in Washington DC, where she was awarded a full ride scholarship to the Performing Arts Project in North Carolina.

In June of 2023, she graduated Western Washington University with a BA in Theatre Performance. There, she performed in numerous plays, ending her college career as Henry Condell in Lauren Gunderson's Book of Will. It was then she fell in fascination with dialect work and has since studied numerous dialects as well as working towards becoming a working dialect coach.

WWU is also where she starred in majority of the films the university film club would produce each quarter, simultaneously participating in the Seattle film scene. During her time in the Arts Enterprise & Cultural Innovation program, she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in two original shorts, Written Down co-directed by Scout Powell, and Discussions of a Particular Pallet, her first solo directing project.

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