Lekethia Dalcoe

Lekethia Dalcoe is an award-winning playwright and actress from Houston, TX, who now resides in Los Angeles. Lekethia served as an executive story editor on Armour Wars for Marvel Studios. Prior to that, she was staffed on Two Sentence Horror Stories for CW. She was also staffed on the show SILO for Apple TV & AMC Studios and was hired to write an unannounced Bad Robot/Stephen King project. Lekethia is also featured on HBO Max Project Greenlight: New Generation writer's roundtable. Her pitch, The Elite, sold to OWN with Harpo Films producing. Lekethia was a fellow in the 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab, where she developed her pilot "script—"Valley of Bones"—based on her play of the same name. Her play "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" received five nominations for the 2018 Audelco Awards, winning Best Play. Lekethia is a mother to a teenager, a southern girl with big-town experiences, a high school varsity cheerleader and Drama Club vice president, an HBCU alum, Pentecostal-raised, former Blockbuster and Astro world employee (when they once existed), middle child of five who was once teased for wearing bifocals, actress, and lover of big creative ideas. Lekethia holds an MA in Theatre from Texas A&M University-Commerce and an MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama (NYC).

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