Les is a playwright and is concurrently enrolled as a PhD student in English at SUNY Stony Brook and at an MA program in playwriting at Boston University. His play "Broken" was produced by the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective in their Spring Festival. He is currently working on a new full-length, "To the Orchard", which was workshopped at the "Building Bridges" Festival at Brooklyn College. He also reviews for the Stony Brook "Statesman".