Leslye Headland

Leslye Headland (born November 26, 1980) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and playwright. She directed the comedic films Bachelorette (2012) and Sleeping with Other People (2015). She co-created the Netflix series Russian Doll (2019–2022), earning her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. She was the creator and showrunner of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024). As a playwright, she has written a string of plays based on the Seven Deadly Sins, which include Assistance and Cult of Love, the latter of which marked her debut as a playwright on Broadway in 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslye Headland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Dying for Sex

After Molly Kochan receives a diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, she leaves her husband and explores the full breadth and complexity of her sexual desires for the first time in her life.

Release Date: 2025-04-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 35

The Acolyte

A hundred years before the rise of the Empire, the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic have prospered for centuries without war. During this time, an investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past.

Release Date: 2024-06-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 647

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

A four-part documentary telling the story of LGBTQIA+ horror and the relationship between queer audiences and horror, and the queer horror community as a whole.

Release Date: 2022-09-30

Character: Self

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 8

Single Drunk Female

A public flame-out at a New York media company forces 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink to seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol. Back in Greater Boston, Samantha restarts her life, working at the local grocery store while surrounded by all of the triggers that made her drink in the first place.

Release Date: 2022-01-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 37

Pink & Blue

A Yoruba & Igbo and Filipinx transgender couple nest a pregnancy in their love and give light to possibilities outside of a binary world.

Release Date: 2020-12-03

Department: Production

Job: Co-Producer

Russian Doll

Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.

Release Date: 2019-02-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 15

Vote Count: 865

Black Monday

Travel back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party and the glass ceiling.

Release Date: 2019-01-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 69

Heathers

A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers. Based on the 1988 cult classic film.

Release Date: 2018-10-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 32

Sleeping with Other People

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

Release Date: 2015-06-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 918

About Last Night

Bernie and Joan are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups and each other. When he sets up his best friend, Danny, with her roommate, Debbie, the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.

Release Date: 2014-02-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 507

Bachelorette

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Release Date: 2012-01-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1205

American Huckster

A New York hustler wheels and deals his way to the top of one of the most powerful and corrupt sports organizations in the world.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Cult of Love

A feature film adaptation of Cult of Love, Leslye Headland‘s dark comedy.

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Terriers

Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department.

Release Date: 2010-09-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 94