BIO

Lekethia is an award-winning playwright , television writer and actress from Houston, TX who now resides in Los Angeles. 

Her work dreams of utopia as a radical act; conjuring faraway lands and alternate realities where the marginalized rise as their own heroes, heroines, and sometimes monsters. Her stories also unfold as allegories, confronting the way America itself is suspended in a holding space, unable to move forward without reckoning with the crimes committed against the Black body.

Lekethia was an Executive Story Editor on Armor Wars for Marvel Studios and previously staffed on Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW) and Silo (Apple TV/AMC Studios). She was also hired to write an unannounced Bad Robot/Stephen King project and is featured on HBO Max’s Project Greenlight: New Generation writers’ roundtable. Her pitch, The Elite, sold to OWN with Harpo Films producing. A 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow, she developed her pilot Valley of Bones, based on her acclaimed play of the same name. Her play A Small Oak Tree Runs Red received five nominations at the 2018 Audelco Awards, winning Best Play. 

Lekethia is a mother to a teenage daughter, a wife, and a proud southern girl with big-city experiences. She’s a former high school varsity cheerleader and Drama Club Vice President, an HBCU alum, Pentecostal raised, once a Blockbuster and Astroworld employee (back when they existed), and the middle child of five who grew up teased for wearing bifocals. An arts advocate and lover of expansive worlds that feel deeply intimate, she centers character at the heart of every story she tells.

She holds a MA in Theatre from Texas A&M University-Commerce, and a MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama (NYC).

Her management is 3Arts Entertainment and agency, UTA.