ComedyCaster » lisa http://www.comedycaster.com The Online Directory of Professional Comedians & Comedy Performers Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:41:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Leisa Rea http://www.comedycaster.com/profile/leisa-rea/ http://www.comedycaster.com/profile/leisa-rea/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:09:36 +0000 leisarea http://www.comedycaster.com/?post_type=ad_listing&p=2101 Leisa is a performer, writer, director and musician.
She won Best Act in 2009 as one half of ‘Adams & Rea’ (Musical Comedy Awards), and went on to earn a raft of accolades for her solo stand up show ‘Pension Plan’ in Edinburgh, 2010. She is currently working on a new live project: Bastard Legs & Other Shows I Haven’t Written which previewed this summer to great acclaim.

She’s written for British Comedy Award-winning series Miranda, (BBC2), created underground super-freak ‘The Biscuit-Eyed Lady’ for The Odditorium, (ITV2) and toured internationally with The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Leisa is also a master of eccentric dance.

PRESS QUOTES:

‘Exquisite’ Time Out

‘Rea has an unerring eye for the absurd’ The Independent

‘Much salacious booty shaking, musically astute and gleefully un-PC”  Scotland on Sunday

‘Genuinely Funny and strangely cathartic’  Scotsgay

SCREEN

Another Danish Killing (online mini-series) 2012
Oddinary People (pilot) – Giametta & Hoque, 2010
The Odditorium (pilot) – Celador Productions, 2007
Space Pirates – CBBC, 2007

RADIO

4 Stands Up – BBC Radio 4, 2009
Play and Record – BBC Radio 7, 2008

STAGE

Bastard Legs – Camden Fringe, 2012
Pension Plan – Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival, 2010
Blissfully Unaware – Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival, 2009
BBC Comedy Presents… – London and Edinburgh, 2009
Time Out Comedy Presents… – Edinburgh, 2009
Adams & Rea – Edinburgh Festival and Tour, 2008
Red Ladies – ICA London, 2008
Yarnbards – Edinburgh Festival and Leicester Comedy Fest, 2007
The Congress of Oddities – Edinburgh Festival, 2007
Agnes of God – North Eastern Tour and Etc. Theatre, 1993
The Odyssey – Theatr Y Werin, Aberystwyth, 1992
Oedipus – Haymarket Leicester, 1992
Macbeth – Haymarket Leicester, 1991
Beverley’s Butcher – Traverse Edinburgh, 1990

COMMERCIALS

Sex Change Hospital – On-Air Promo, More 4, 2007

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