Student Scholar Spotlight – Leah Cleland
Student Scholar Spotlight – Leah Cleland
Featured student work during their time as a college scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Leah Cleland
My program is entitled “Adaptation Studies with an Emphasis on Writing and Directing for the Screen and Stage.” It’s a mouthful, but it essentially means I look at the translation of stories across media: book to film, book to stage, stage to film, etc. I love storytelling and discovering more about all the ways in which a story can be told. I do a lot of creative writing, especially screenplays, and I am currently working on a futuristic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo as my senior project.
I have also done some work with the Clarence Brown Theatre. Last semester, I acted as an assistant stage manager for their production of Ken Ludwig’s Murder on the Orient Express, a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name.