LEAH RENEE
NOT YOUR AVERAGE COMEDIAN
Leah Renee is a full time comedian based out of Philadelphia and NYC. She's produced and performed five shows to the world's largest art festival, Edinburgh Fringe (more on that below). She's performed to curious audiences at Philadelphia Theatre Week, Brighton Fringe, Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Philly Fringe, and other various festivals and events.
She’s storyteller comedian with a uniquely personal perspective on culture, religion, gender roles, and motherhood, her comedy offers a warm and distinct voice in a crowded field of Tinder/Trump/Am-I-right? jokes.
writer
A dedicated disciple of Morning Pages (The Artist's Way), Leah writes every day. Rather than keeping her thoughts under a bushel, Leah recently launched a Substack (which boasts double digit subscribers!). Everything from her life as a comedian, to the truth about attention harvesting by Big Tech, Leah's blog is often funny, always earnest.
She's currently writing her next comedy hour, a memoir, a screenplay, and a letter to her Aunt Kath for sending her such a lovely birthday present.
She may not be James Joyce, but she is joy...ful.
podcaster
Encouraged by her friends who were tired of hearing her ramble on, Leah began a podcast as a career move or perhaps a cry for help.
Season One offers some straight up woo woo stuff she's been experimenting with since she left Mormonism in 2022. From reviewing Joe Dispenza's books to deconstructing fairy tales, her podcast is a self-helpy ramble full of anecdotes, complaints, and off beat life hacks.
past shows
Bucket
Most people regret the things they didn't do more than the things they did do." What does this mean for lifelong Mormon, Leah Renee, the undisputed champion of "Never Have I Ever" game.
Bucket is an autobiographical insight into "scrupulosity", a form of OCD commonly experienced by members of high-demand religious groups that require a specific type of obsequiousness, like Mormonism.
Examining her own origins of OCD and in an effort to engage in her own innocent exposure therapy, Leah tried one thing one stage each time she performed Bucket. Whether it was having her first pint, or doing her first scratch card, Leah brought light-hearted play to something she would have otherwise considered a serious infraction whilst a Latter-day Saint.
A show about confronting your fears under the supervision and support of friends, Bucket was Leah's first solo show for the books.
TEn Pound baby
The average C-section in the USA costs £25-40K, but you can just squat one out in the back like a feral cat for FREE!
Leah's solo hour show 10 Pound Baby is about how blind confidence and American-Mormon optimism led her to have a give birth to a ten pound baby in her kitchen.
Called "the most American religion", Mormons embody and exceed American stereotypes about prosperity gospel, prepping, pathological optimism and happiness, sugar consumption and superiority complexes.
Leah left Mormonism and moved to the UK where she learned once again, things are not as you assumed. Leah's year of nomadic living in the Great Britain showed her it's not all tea and crumpets; it's Stella and Quavers.
Comedian Leah Renee and three time homebirther shares her experience of evacuating children from her bowels and making her own exit from what she didn't know the average person considers a cult.
Best Cult Ever
Best Cult Ever is a pure chaos comedy hour for the cult-curious.
Leah Renee picks up where the Book of Mormon Musical left off with songs, games and delightful surprises. Most ex-Mormon stories are shared with gravitas in hushed tones, but not when you hear one from a clown.
A punchline dense comedy show full of gags and surprises, Best Cult Ever is the comedy show for the cult curious. Polygamy? More like Polyga-WEEEE! The only comedy show from an ex-Mormon tradwife soaking in wit and the unexpected. The show that feels like a hilarious group hug, including the original hit game show Mormon May I? and the theme song Best Cult Ever played on autoharp, written and sung by Leah Renee.
Best Cult Ever picks up where the Book of Mormon musical left off with songs, games, wigs, and wonder.
With free muffins at every show and 60 minutes of hilarious and shocking vulnerability, Best Cult Ever was enjoyed by sold out crowds at Edinburgh Fringe, Philadelphia Theatre Week, Brighton Fringe and Philly Fringe.
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Tour updates
The easiest way to catch a show is to get an email when I'm in your city. Thus far I don't email for any other reason, but I'll let you know if that changes. :)
