Aleshea Harris is an American playwright, spoken word artist, author, educator, actor, performer, and screenwriter.

[2][3][4][5][6][7] Her plays have toured in France and in Belgium and have been presented at Playfest at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, California Institute of the Arts, VOXfest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and the Comédie de Saint-Étienne-National Drama Center in France.

[9] She was a part of CalArts' student organization, a collective that collaborated with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and with the African-American Shakespeare Company, with three plays and two staged readings.

In 2018, a production of Is God Is, written by Harris and directed by Taibi Magar, opened at Soho Rep in New York City and ran from February 6 to March 11.

Her play On Sugarland was produced by the New York Theatre Workshop in 2022, directed by Whitney White and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly.