Leah Nanako Winkler is an award-winning Japanese American playwright from Kamakura, Japan, and Lexington, Kentucky. Hailed by The New York Times as a "distinctive new voice," her play God Said This won the Yale Drama Series Prize, and was produced Off-Broadway by Primary Stages and at the 2018 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. In 2019 she premiered Hot Asian Doctor Husband, a new play produced and commissioned by Theater Mu. Her other plays include Nevada Tan (Audible Emerging Artist Commission), Kentucky (The Kilroys List, world premiere: Ensemble Studio Theatre/Page73), Two Mile Hollow (The Kilroys List, simultaneous world premiere at First Floor Theater, Mixed Blood/Theater Mu, Artists at Play, and Ferocious Lotus), and many more. She authored a set of plays for Disney Theatrical based in the Marvel Universe and is on commission from the Yale Repertory Theatre. Winkler was awarded the first Mark O’Donnell Prize from The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons, the Jerome New York Fellowship, the 2019 Francesca Primus Prize, and most recently the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award. She was a story editor on New Amsterdam, and previously worked as a staff writer on Ramy, where she received a Peabody Award. She is adapting her play Nevada Tan into a film, writing an animated feature for Pearl Studios (Dreamworks China), and adapting her play Hot Asian Doctor Husband into a feature for Killer Films. She is also currently adapting the best-selling memoir The Woo Woo to television for UCP/Escape Artists, writing an original Catwoman story podcast for DC Comics/Spotify, and is a producer on season 2 of HBO Max’s Love Life.