Leisa Rea
- Location: London
- Clip Details: Another Danish Killing
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- Clip Page URL: http://youtu.be/XAfngjonwHA
- Gender: Female
- Height Category: 5ft03-5ft06
- Build: Slim
- Playing Age: 36-45
- Appearance: Caucasian-Dark
- Nationality: English
- Accents: Manchester (native), American-Standard, Lancashire, London, Northern, RP, Scottish-Standard, Spanish, Welsh-Standard, West Country
- Website: http://www.leisarea.com
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/leisarea
- Singing: Soprano
- Musical Instruments: Guitar, percussion, ukelele
- Skills: Driving licence, mime, puppetry, story-telling
- For all enquiries phone: Noel Gay 020 7836 3941
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Details
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
