Grace McLeod (she/her/hers) is a queer playwright and screenwriter from New York City living in Los Angeles. She currently has a horror-comedy film in development with Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Productions and Billy Magnussen’s HappyBad Bungalow, and alongside Jessica Fisch, she is a co-creator of the upcoming scripted podcast series TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, which was developed with Temple Hill Entertainment and PictureStart. As a playwright, Grace recently completed a commission from The Playwrights Realm, where she was a 2021 Virtual Realm Writer. Her queer coming-of-age play HERLAND received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at MOXIE Theatre in San Diego, Redtwist Theatre in Chicago, and Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles in 2019. Her plays have been presented, developed, and/or commissioned by Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Chalk Repertory Theatre (2023 Writers Group), Ashland New Plays Festival (2020 winner), The New Coordinates (2019 Uncharted Festival), Greenhouse Theater Center (2018 Trellis Residency), First Floor Theater, Commission Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays, and Millikin University's BFA program, among others. In high school, she wrote and directed the short film UNDER THE TABLE with the support of the Tribeca Film Fellows program, which went on to premiere during the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, and co-conceived and produced LOCAL/EXPRESS, an experimental short film that screened across Times Square as part of the Midnight Moment Series, the world's largest, longest-running digital art exhibition. Grace is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Playwriting.