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Title: Leland Moss papers
Dates: 1952-1990 (bulk 1972-1989)
Collection Number: 1990-04
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 6 linear feet (4 cartons, 1 manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Leland Moss (1948-1990) was a theater director and playwright who is best known for The AIDS Show, a 1984 work he produced
with Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco. This collection includes personal and professional correspondence, as well as nearly
30 years of personal journals and writings, including plays, poetry, prose, screenplays, and journalism. Materials related
to Moss’ work with Theatre Rhinoceros include drafts, scripts, notes and research materials for The AIDS Show, Unfinished
Business, Quisbies and other plays.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Leland Moss papers. Collection Number: 1990-04. GLBT Historical Society
Biography/Administrative History
Leland Moss (1948-1990) was a theater director and playwright who is best known for The AIDS Show, a 1984 work he produced
with Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco. After studying at Harvard and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he worked
with companies that included La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, and the New York Shakespeare Festival.
In 1980, he moved to Berkeley and began working for Theater Rhinoceros. Moss died of AIDS in 1990.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes personal and professional correspondence, as well as nearly 30 years of personal journals and writings,
including plays, poetry, prose, screenplays, and journalism. Materials related to Moss’ work with Theatre Rhinoceros include
drafts, scripts, notes and research materials for The AIDS Show, Unfinished Business, Quisbies and other plays. The collection
also contains documentation of his lengthy career in the theater, including notes from his studies at Harvard University,
plays he directed and roles he played, as well as flyers, playbills and photographs. There are also materials related to Moss’
Buddhist practice, and personalia, including writings by his parents, Paul and Thelma Moss.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004301; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374
Theater
AIDS (disease)
Gay men