Cleo Handler, originally from Los Angeles, is a recent graduate of Yale University (’12) with both a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies.
A National Merit Scholarship Winner and AP Scholar with Honors, she received Yale’s Walter Parkes Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Dedication to the Arts, and was nominated for the prestigious Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Excelling in both the arts and sciences, Cleo was selected to be a Yale O’Neill Playwriting Fellow and, as such, taught playwriting to high school students. She has served in a literary capacity at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, as well as Hasbro Studios. As a distinguised science student at Yale, Cleo has written many psychological reports and worked in the Anxiety Lab at the Child Study Center, where she conducted research, and designed and carried out her own psychological experiments. She currently lives in New York.
