Celeste Lecesne

Celeste Lecesne is an American actor, author and screenwriter who was born in New Jersey and worked for years in off-Broadway theater. Lecesne wrote the short film Trevor, released in 1995, which won an Academy Award in the best live action short film category, and based it on a character from the one-man show Word of Mouth, named outstanding one-person show at the 1995 Drama Desk Awards. A publishing career brought My First Car in 1993, the young adult novel Absolute Brightness in 2008 and Virgin Territory in 2010, plus a 2013 novella version of Trevor. On stage, Lecesne made a Broadway debut in 2012 as Dick Jensen in Gore Vidal's The Best Man, and wrote and performed the solo show The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which ran off-Broadway in 2015 and drew praise from critics, including The New York Times, which called it a superlative solo show.