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General
Lea's interests include women, women and more women. Especially young women. Young women in short, plaid skirts. She also enjoys singing. Singing to women...young women...in short, plaid...well, you get the picture.
Music
Lea's solo jazz releases include Play It Cool, Double Standards, and Lea DeLaria - The Very Best Of. Lea has also guested on albums by Janette Mason (Din and Tonic) and Ian Shaw (Drawn to All Things...the Songs of Joni Mitchell), and is a featured vocalist on the Broadway revival cast recording of The Rocky Horror Show, as well as Hair – The Actors' Fund of America Benefit Recording.

Lea's next jazz album, Swingin' at Smoke, was recorded live at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City in October 2007 and is scheduled to be released on June 17, 2008.
Movies
Lea has appeared in the films Fat Rose and Squeaky, Mercury in Retrograde, Edge of Seventeen, Homo Heights, Plump Fiction, The First Wives Club and Rescuing Desire. She is also the headlining performer in the Outlaugh! 2005 comedy festival DVD.
Television
Lea's television appearances include Will & Grace, The Job, The Oblongs, Further Tales of the City, The Beat, In Through the Out Door, The Drew Carey Show, Friends, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, OP Center, The John Larroquette Show, Matlock, The Award Show Awards Show, Just for Laughs, Cabaret Live, The 55th Annual Tony Awards, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, Great Performances, We're Funny That Way, Out There in Hollywood, In the Life, Camp Christmas, The Word, Out There, The Arsenio Hall Show, One Life to Live, The World According to Us, Today Show, Last Call, Women Aloud, Two Drink Minimum, and Comedy at the Danger Zone. With her guest spot on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1993, Lea was the first openly gay entertainer to appear on national television.
Books
Lea's writing credits include the book, Lea's Book of Rules for the World (with Maggie Cassella), along with the script for In Through the Out Door.

..Theater and Cabaret..

Lea's theater and cabaret credits (Broadway, off-Broadway, national, regional, etc.) include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, On The Town, Little Fish, The Vagina Monologues, The Rocky Horror Show, Boys From Syracuse, Li’l Abner, As You Like It, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Chicago, Once Upon A Mattress, Happy Days, Godspell, Roller Derby, and DeLightful, DeLicious, DeLaria.

..Performance..

Lea's international jazz and comedy performance venues include Joe’s Pub – New York City; Just For Laughs (one-woman show) – Montreal, Quebec; Newcastle Comedy Festival – Newcastle, England; Edinburgh International Theatre Festival – Edinburgh, Scotland (won Critic’s Choice Award – Outstanding Comedy); Vancouver Comedy Festival – Vancouver, Canada; New Zealand International Comedy Festival – New Zealand; Carnegie Hall – New York City; Palladium (opened for Pet Shop Boys) – London; Apollo Theatre (one-woman show) – London; Long Beach Jazz Festival – Long Beach; Tribute to Billie Holiday – Hollywood Bowl/Tour; Newport Jazz Festival – Featured Vocalist - 50th Anniversary; London Jazz Festival – London; Provincetown Art House Theatre - Provincetown, MA; Pizza Express, London.

..Honors and Awards..

1994 - Regional Emmy, The World According to Us (Lifetime); 1998 - OBIE Award, Performance, On the Town; 1998 - Theater World Award, On the Town; 1998 - New York Theatre Award, On the Town; 1999 GLAMA Award, Best Jazz Performance, Blue Skies; 2000 - Back Stage Bistro Award, Oustanding Musical Comedy, DeLightful, DeLicious, DeLaria; 2002 - Back Stage Bistro Award, Outstanding Recording, Play It Cool. Drama League honoree for her performance as "Hildy" in On the Town. Nominated for 1998 Drama Desk Award for On the Town. Should have been nominated for (and won) the Tony for her performance in On the Town. But we won't go there...

Latest Blog Entries

27 Feb 2009 8:39 Event: Lea DeLaria on Law and Order SVU This Sunday
12 Feb 2009 20:26 Event: ArtExplosion 2009 Finale-GLBT Arts Festival - Fort Lauderdale
27 Jan 2009 3:23 Event: Out on the Edge: America's Rebel Comics - Book Signing/Party
26 Jan 2009 4:34 Lea DeLaria at Examiner.com - Facebook'd or Facepunk'd?
19 Jan 2009 23:31 Check out this event: Day One: An Evening of Celebration

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"Lea DeLaria is the hardest working black man in show business."

--Dave Attell

Welcome to the MySpace fan site dedicated to the amazing jazz vocalist/musician, comic, actor, author, Broadway diva, playwright, civil rights activist and construction worker LEA DeLARIA. This woman does it all...and she does it all extremely well!

For more detailed info about Lea, please visit her official MySpace Music page (featuring blogs by Lea herself), her official website and the MySpace Lea DeLaria Jazz Group, as well as the sites listed in the Bio, Reviews, Articles and Interviews section below.

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LEA DELARIA:
THE LIVE SMOKE SESSIONS

the new jazz album from Lea DeLaria

Recorded live at Smoke Jazz and Supper Club
in New York City – October 26 and 27, 2007

CD AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Click HERE for more info.

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Lea DeLaria's Official Website

Visit Lea's official website at: www.delariadammit.com. While there, enjoy a few samplings from her jazz CDs.

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Lea DeLaria's Official MySpace Music Page

Visit Lea's official MySpace Music page and add yourself as a friend, if you haven't already. This page will feature blogs by Lea herself and has several tracks from Lea's jazz albums for you to enjoy and download to your own page. Click on the image below to go there.

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Lea DeLaria Jazz Group on MySpace

Come and join other Lea fans in forum discussions about her work in music, comedy, theater, film, television, civil rights advocacy, picking up women, etc. Join the Lea DeLaria Jazz Group today at: http://groups.myspace.com/LeaDeLariaJazz

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Contacting Lea DeLaria

Lea DOES read the comments posted at the Lea DeLaria Unlimited fan site as well as the messages sent to and comments posted at her official MySpace Music page. Lea DOES NOT see the inbox messages sent to Lea DeLaria Unlimited, however. Your best bet for contacting Lea is to cruise on over to her official MySpace Music page and add yourself as a friend, if you have not done so already.

Because Lea is one busy, busy, busy woman, it takes her a while to go through all of the messages and comments...but do keep them coming! Also, because she is so busy, she is unable to respond to most of them individually...thank you for understanding.

Business inquiries (bookings, interview requests, etc.) should be sent to Lea via the contact link at her official website, www.delariadammit.com.

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Lea DeLaria's 2010 Live Performance Dates:

Check out Lea's 2010 live performance schedule at her official website, delariadammit.com. Click here to go there.

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Lea DeLaria on TV

For a listing of Lea's upcoming US television appearances within the next seven days, you can visit her page at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). Click here to go there.

Be sure to catch Lea in dual roles on ABC-TV's daytime drama One Life to Live starting in September. One of her characters, the psychic Madame Delphina, was labeled "What's Hot" in Soap Opera Digest!

Lea as "Nurse Carver" on Will and Grace.

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Lea DeLaria Merchandise

Most of Lea's merchandise (jazz CDs, comedy CDs, book, videos, etc.) can be purchased through Amazon.com. Click here for Amazon.com's website.

(Note: Try hitting the "Refresh" button if the slideshow below doesn't start up right away.)

..Jazz CDs..: Play It Cool, Double Standards, Lea DeLaria - The Very Best Of, Lea DeLaria - The Live Smoke Sessions (Release Date: 9/9/08)

..Comedy CDs..: Bulldyke in a China Shop, Box Lunch

..Book..: Lea's Book of Rules for the World

..Guest Vocalist CDs..: Janette Mason, Din and Tonic; Ian Shaw, Drawn to All Things...The Songs of Joni Mitchell

..Broadway CDs..: The Rocky Horror Show; Hair - The Actors' Fund of America Benefit Recording

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Lea DeLaria Bio, Reviews, Articles and Interviews

..BIOGRAPHY..
Wikipedia: Click here
GLBTQ.COM: Click here
IMDB: Click here
Paul Lucas Productions: Click here

..ALBUM REVIEWS..
Play It Cool: Click here
Double Standards: Click here and here
Lea DeLaria - The Very Best Of: Click here
Lea DeLaria - The Live Smoke Sessions: Click here

..THEATER REVIEWS..
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Click here
On The Town: Click here
Once Upon A Mattress: Click here

..CONCERT REVIEWS..
Empire Plush Room: Click here

..ARTICLES..
Virgin Mary, Make Mine A Double - A Very Lea Christmas: Click here
The Advocate - On The Town: Click here

..INTERVIEWS..
AfterEllen.com: Click here
Barnesandnoble.com: Click here
Breakupgirl.net: Click here
Jazzreview.com: Click here
Oasis Magazine: Click here
Talkinbroadway.com: Click here

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Lea DeLaria's Lesbian Mafia Podcast Interview

Listen to the Lesbian Mafia's July 2007 podcast interview with Lea. Click on the link below.

Podcast Interview w/ Lea Delaria on The Lesbian Mafia! Click me!

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Lea DeLaria Quotes

"What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny. Your belief isn't necessary."

"I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!"

"As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room."

"It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me."

"A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing."

"No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago."

"I tend to like very bitchy women. I find myself most attracted to smart, sarcastic, bitchy women."

"Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works."

"Now everyone's decided that all lesbians wear lipstick!"

"They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!"

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Lea DeLaria Video Clips

Check out Lea in the short film by Richard Currier, Become A Big Hairy Dyke. Click here to see it on YouTube.

As a Broadway Diva, Lea stopped the show eight times a week with her award-winning portrayal of "Hildy" in the New York revival of the musical On the Town. You can see a clip of her singing "I Can Cook, Too" by clicking here.

Lea crossed genders several times on Broadway. Watch her sing and dance as the leather-jacketed, pompadoured "Eddie" (she also played "Dr. Scott") in the Rocky Horror Show cast's performance at the 55th Annual Tony Awards. Click here to check it out. ("It's just a jump to the left...")

In June 2008, Lea appeared off-Broadway in the review, Don't Quit Your Night Job. To see one of her performances, just click here.

Lea's most recent film is Fat Rose and Squeaky. Click here to view the trailer.

Here is a little bit of Lea's stand-up. Watch her totally rank on Los Angeles in her intro from the OUTLAUGH! 2005 DVD. Click here to see it.

Lea sings her award-winning rendition of Blue Skies from the film Edge of Seventeen in the clip below:

Lea DeLaria Blue Skies

Blue Skies by Lea DeLaria

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Lea as Madame Delphina on One Life to Live

Catch these YouTube clips of Lea's 1999 and July 2008 performances on ABC-TV's daytime drama, One Life to Live. (Lea returns to One Life to Live in September in dual roles!)

Dorian and Mel – End of Romance, Part 5
(In this clip, Lea's Madame Delphina shares a kiss with OLTL diva Robin Strasser's Dorian Lord.)

A Crime, A Confession, A Charge – Part 1 of 6

Madame Delphina and the Cramers – Part 1

Madame Delphina and the Cramers – Part 2

Bird on a Wire – k.d. lang

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Who I'd like to meet:

Lea DeLaria friends and fans.

With Clare Teal and Simon Little - Pizza Express, London
October 16, 2007

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LDU Top Friend of the Week

BOB SMITH

Connect with the funnyman and author Bob Smith at www.myspace.com/bobscomedy and check him out.

What you’ll find on Bob’s page:

“Born in Buffalo, Bob Smith has the distinction of being the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and also have his own HBO Comedy half-hour. Other TV appearances include Politically Incorrect, The Late, Late Show, Entertainment Tonight, Tom Snyder and Comedy Central's Out There. Bob's Lambda Literary Award winning collection of essays, Openly Bob, was published to acclaim by Rob Weisbach Books/William Morrow and his most recent Lambda Literary Award nominated bookWay To Go, Smith! was published by HarperCollins. He has written for Amblin Films, the MTV Video Awards, Dennis Miller, Roseanne, and was a staff writer for Fox's MAD-TV. His sketch, ‘The Zapruder Films,’ was recently featured in The Best of MAD-TV…”

Click here to view some of Bob’s comedy on YouTube.

LDU Top Friend of the Week promotes up-and-coming and established LGBT and LGBT-friendly artists and entities who are friends of Lea DeLaria Unlimited. Please support our top friends by visiting their pages, checking out their work, and showing some love in the form of a comment (and/or a purchase!).

If you would like to be considered as an

LDU Top Friend of the Week, please send your request in a message to the LDU inbox. Thanks!

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LDU WANTS YOUR PICS!

Do you have a photo of yourself with Lea? If so, you are invited to send it to be added to the LDU “With Friends and Fans” photo album.

Your photo will be posted and tagged with a link to your own personal page, unless you indicate otherwise. Please send your Lea pic(s) to ldualbum@yahoo.com and include the following:

- the words “LDU Pic” in the subject line
(so that we'll know it’s not spam)

- a caption for each pic (e.g., “with Anita Fixx and Frieda Slaves at the Asthmatic Animal Fund Benefit, NYC - 2005”)

- your MySpace profile name and URL

- photographer's credit, if any

LDU will also replace the photos below with a regular rotation of submitted pics…so send yours in soon!

Thanks!

Lea and Kelly after a fantastic show at the Art House Theatre in Provincetown MA - July 26,2008

Lea with LDU host Gena at Smoke Jazz Club, NYC
October 26, 2007
Photo by Wyl Muchrison

Saint Teresa, Robert Tiny Gibson, Lea and Candye Kane at the House of Blues, West Hollywood
Photo by Bernaded Dexters

Joy ZZ and Lea at the Vixen Bar in Provincetown, MA
after Lea's great show - August 2006
Photo by some random drunk girl at the bar.

Mike Memphis and Lea after Rocky outside of the theatre, NYC
(That's confetti in Mike's hair.)

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

...naughty ..and.. nice...!

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For more on Lea's "favorite" president (the "PFDNSOB"), check out the video clip below.

Details

Status: In a Relationship
Here for: Networking, Friends
Hometown: Belleville, IL
Orientation: Lesbian
Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Occupation: Entertainer, Artist, Activist

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