![]() ![]() Lax wrote the libretto based on her memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home, narrating thirty years as a Hasidic wife, mother, and closeted lesbian. In 2013, she created and designed Houston's In Concert Against Hate for the Houston Symphony In collaboration with the Anti-Defamation League, In 2020, Lax created an opera Uncovered with composer Lori Laitman and director/dramatist Beth Greenberg. In 2007 Lax co-wrote The Refuge for the Houston Grand Opera with composer Christopher Theofanidis debuted at Houston's Wortham Center. Lax started writing in earnest after she underwent a secret abortion to terminate a life-threatening pregnancy. Her interest in writing started while reading anthologies by feminist and lesbian poet Adrienne Rich. She had completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Subsequently, Lax graduated from the University of Houston with an MFA in Creative Writing. In 2002 she left the community to lead a secular life and live openly as a lesbian. In 1975, Lax entered an arranged marriage at the age of 19, and remained among the Hasidim for thirty years, bearing seven children. She joined the Lubavitcher Hasidim at sixteen. She is best known for her memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home which was later created as an opera with composer Lori Laitman. ![]() Leah Lax is an American author and librettist. ![]()
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