Kenny Leon has a staging of August Wilson’s “Fences” running in Boston, and he’d just taken the red-eye from Los Angeles, where he’s directing an episode of “Ghost Whisperer” and will follow that by helming one for “Private Practice.” 

So when he spoke at a Sunday brunch to celebrate the launch of the 2009-10 season of his True Colors Theatre Company, which opens Oct. 7 with “The Sty of the Blind Pig” at Southwest Arts Center, he had just cause to complain of jet lag. His bi-coasal life increasingly finds professional peers posing the inevitable question about when he’s going to pull up stakes from Atlanta.

“I see folks in New York and they say, ‘Don’t you live in New York yet?’ and I say ‘No!’ ‘Don’t you live in L.A. yet?’ ‘No! I live in Atlanta and I have a theater company. It’s called True Colors Theatre Company,” he said during the affair at the Buckhead home of Amanda and George Olmstead.

“For many years, I was artistic director of the Alliance Theatre Company, now I’m artistic director of this theater company. But there’s room for all of us in this city. What we need is for there to be theatergoing all over the city, and until we realize that, we’re going to continue to  be a small city in the South that likes [only] one big thing.”

But he says he’s encouraged by the increase in TV and film production, to go along with all the small, medium and large theaters here, and noted that Atlanta-based filmmaker Tyler Perry along with long-time Leon pal Samuel L. Jackson have committed to being True Colors season sponsors for 2009-10.

Perry’s next film will be an adaption of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” True Colors staged a sold-out run of the choreopoem this summer directed by Jasmine Guy, and the company is currently trying to organize (translation: gather funding for) a 10-city tour.

—Howard Pousner