bio / resume

Leslie is an improv actress and stand-up comic who has been under cover as a corporate consultant building cell sites across the country for years. Farmers, CEOs, planning commissioners, and city councilwomen and men have yelled at her in private and public from Indiana to Arizona.

Influenced by watching thousands of hours of Carol Burnett, Mel Brooks, Flip Wilson, Madeleine Khan, Terri Garr, Goldie Hawn, Gilda Radner, Angie Dickenson, Richard Pryor, and many more, she skipped team sports in favor of the stage. She was a student at A.C.T. in San Francisco as a child, The Attic Theater, a member of the Donna Vercesi Dancers (tap & jazz), and the alto in a signing group called Underground Parking. Later she was a student at The Groundlings (early 1990s -- Kathy Griffin was her teacher), and Second City in Chicago (later 1990s). She was the featured singer in a few top 40 bands and back-up singer for the Joe Wood Blues band. She has more recently studied Improv with Jim Doughan and George McGrath. She worships them both in different and appropriate ways. She studied stand-up comedy with Judy Carter, and has continued to work on her act with the king of comedy in Orange County, Mr. Bill Word. She is out there playing clubs and theaters right now – go see her!!

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