Luisa Leschin

LUISA LESCHIN - short bio At age 5, Luisa was the Shirley Temple of Guatemala with her own TV show and she's been in the entertainment business ever since. In New York and L.A. she had a very successful acting career playing every Latino stereotype on most major television shows. Her frustration and desire to see more rounded Latino characters on TV led Luisa into a writing career, starting with co-founding and co-writing Latins Anonymous - a highly successful sketch comedy group and eponymous play which to date has received over 45 productions nationwide. As a writer, Luisa has worked on 485 produced episodes of television BOTH IN THE DRAMA AND COMEDY GENRES AND RUN A NUMBER OR WRITERS ROOMS FOR VARIOUS SHOWS; amongst them, three seasons on the award-winning series Just Add Magic (Amazon); three seasons on Mr. Iglesias, (Netflix) and on the Emmy and Humanitas nominated second season of Gentefied (Netflix). Other highlights are five seasons on the George Lopez show (122 episodes) where Luisa served as CO-EP and Everybody Hates Chris (CO-EP). With the same producers, she helped shepherd the TBS series Are We There Yet? through a 10-90 order - working on its 100 episodes. Luisa was honored to be selected to co-write the feature length series finale of Hulu's East Los High after working on the Emmy-nominated second season. A diverse writer - Luisa has also worked in hour-long DRAMA AND DRAMEDY- writing for Robert Rodriguez's series, From Dusk till Dawn. She sold The Black Veil - an original pilot for premium streaming to TNT, Dirty Girls pilot to NBC and has a deal with Uni-TV for Never too Late to be Happy, based on a South American format. In feature films, Luisa wrote the dance-driven Tropico, for Universal Family, co-wrote National Guard Wives for Showtime, Amigas-Sweet Fifteen Club for Disney Channel and the animated The Kid Who Saved Christmas for Warner Brother's Premiere Entertainment. Other sold television pilots include: Fox: Sherri, (a sitcom for Sherri Shepherd) Mambo Palace - one-hour dramedy. CBS/Paramount: Lorenzo's Wife - one-hour format. And currently, under her blind pilot deal at WB - Luisa wrote Pedro and Sons - a 1/2 hour single cam comedy.(Propagate). Under her banner, Tortuga Productions, Luisa served as Executive Producer on Time Pulse - a feature film about time-travel soon to be released.

Awards: Luisa is the proud recipient of the 2019 Norman Lear Lifetime Achievement Writer's Award. She is also a Golden Eagle Award recipient for Writing, and the first New Voices, Humanitas winner. Luisa is the proud recipient of the 2019 Norman Lear Lifetime Achievement Writer's Award. She is also a Golden Eagle Award recipient for Writing, and the first New Voices, Humanitas winner.