Leslie (Gold) Ruder – Actress and Acting Teacher – Passaic, NJ

Leslie Gold Ruder spent ten years stage managing, casting, and producing plays off-Broadway and in regional theatres, followed by ten years of an acting career, with training from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the Walnut Street Theatre School and the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, and with private coaches in Los Angeles. Leslie now teaches acting to women of all ages and backgrounds in private classes, as well as at seminaries and Israeli girls’ high schools. She is a published playwright, and continues to work on a one-woman show. Favorite roles include Ariel in The Tempest, and Genendel in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Teibele and Her Demon. A “specialist” in improvisational interactive theatre, she originated the roles of the Bar Mitzvah boy’s mother in Bernie’s Bar Mitzvah, and the mother of the kallah in A Match Made in Manhattan.