Leah Nanako Winkler is a Japanese-born American playwright currently living in New York City.

[4] Winkler moved to New York in 2006 to become a writer with the money she earned donating eggs to a fertility clinic.

In 2010 ETG's play The Internet (Incubator Arts Project) garnered favorable reviews in the New York Times.

Leah was subsequently invited to present a manifesto regarding these issues at the Prelude Festival in 2012 alongside Richard Foreman and Mac Wellman.

Leah continued to self-produce her short-form experimental work often at bars alongside poets and musicians.

[6] In 2014, she had two plays Death for Sydney Black and Diversity Awareness Picnic on The Kilroys' List, a gender parity initiative highlighting underproduced works by female playwrights.

In 2016, Winkler's play Kentucky was on the Kilroys list and had its world premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre as a co-production with the Radio Drama Network and Page 73 Productions in New York.