“Lenelle Moïse brings fierce passion.”
-The New York Times
"Piercing, covering territory both intimate and political...vivid & powerful."
-Curve Magazine
POETRY
THEATRE
PROSE
Lenelle is a regular blogger for OurChart.com, a networking site launched by the creators of the L-Word. Her essays are featured in several anthologies, including: WORD WARRIORS: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution and We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists. Her articles have also been published in The F-Word Zine and Velvetpark Magazine.
FILM & VIDEO
At age 20 Lenelle co-wrote Sexual Dependency, Bolivian director Rodrigo Bellot's feature film debut about cross-cultural machismo and U.S. media influence on the youth of the global south. Currently out on DVD, the film won the International Film Critics' Award at the Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland) and has since been screened and awarded in dozens of festivals and cinemas on four continents. She also wrote and starred in Mara Alper's short experimental video To Erzulie which premiered at the Berlin Sommerfest der Literaturen in July 2002. Lenelle completed her own experimental shorts Blue Passersby Eyes and Atlantic Soul. Her self-produced music video Pied Piper was an official selection of the International Museum of Women's 2007 Online Film Festival. Her distinct voice is featured in to Step by Step: Keeping the Arts Alive, a 30-minute documentary by Julie Akeret.
HONORS & AWARDS
2008 Black Women Playwrights Group Whisper Laugh Shout Award
2008 Hedgebrook/ New WORLD Theater Writing Residency
2007 Patchwork Majority Radio Award for Best Solo Album: Madivinez
2006 Gaea Foundation Sea Change Residency
2006 Astraea Loving Lesbians Award for Poetry
2004 Drammy for Best Ensemble Acting: Cornered in the Dark
2004 & 2003 James Baldwin Memorial Award in Playwriting
2003 New WORLD Theater Poetry Slam Champion
2001 & 2000 National Poetry Slam competitor with Team Ithaca, NY
VISUAL ART
Lenelle has started to experiment with collage as a form of nonlinear storytelling. In December 2007, the self-taught artist first presented her collection “URBAN WINGS” in a group show at the Hosmer Gallery in Northampton, MA. See the slideshow below for a glimpse of these alternately meditative and whimsical, vibrant mixed media works.