Leslie Jordan (author/performer) stepped off a Greyhound bus in 1982 from the hills of Tennessee, said “hello” to Hollywood and has never looked back. With hundreds of television shows, films and commercials to his credit, he has become a familiar face on the entertainment scene. Leslie is the 2006 Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his delicious portrayal of “Beverley Leslie” on “Will and Grace.”
           
Feature film audiences will recognize Leslie from his performance as “Brother Boy” in Del Shores’ adaptation of his play Sordid Lives with Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke and Beau Bridges. He reprises the role in the television series based on the play and film for the cable network Logo. Recent feature film appearances include “Love Ranch” in a wonderful scene with Helen Mirren directed by Taylor Hackford, and “Wanted: Undead or Alive” with Chris Kattan. Television audiences will remember Leslie in recurring roles on “Ugly Betty,” “Boston Legal,” “Hidden Palms,” and “Reba.”

On stage, Mr. Jordan won the Ovation Award, The Garland Award and The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of “Preston Leroy,” the aging, sodden barfly in Del Shores hit play Southern Baptist Sissies.  Leslie’s autobiographical one-man show Like a Dog on Linoleum performed to sold-out audiences at the Elephant Asylum Theater in Los Angeles, the Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs, the Bailiwick Theater in Chicago, the 14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta, and the Lorraine Hansberry Theater in San Francisco. 

Mr. Jordan has also enjoyed considerable success as a writer. His play Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Thus Far ran to sold-out houses in Los Angeles and had a successful seven-month run Off-Broadway at the Playhouse on Van Dam in New York City. His screenplay “Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel” won the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival’s Production Grant Award, winning the competition over 600 other scripts. Subsequently, it was made into an independent feature film distributed by Northern Arts Entertainment.

David Galligan (Director) most recently directed Carole Cook’s one-woman show Dress Up at the New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, as well as Like a Dog on Linoleum, written and performed by Leslie Jordan, which has played to S.R.O. audiences across the nation. Other recent work includes Scott Martin’s Children of the Night, Always…Patsy Cline with Sally Struthers and the writing and staging of Valarie Pettiford’s one woman show, Finding My Voice. He is the co creator and director of theOff Broadway review Blame it on the Movies. Herepeated the staging for The Pasadena Playhouse. Other Pasadena Playhouse productions include Lettice and Lovage with Jane Carr and Mary Jo Catlett, Alone Together with Nancy Dussault, and The Lion in Winter with Carole Cook and Tom Troupe. Other credits include The Gay 90s Musical, Blame It on the Movies II, Cabaret, Angry Housewives, A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, Slings and Eros, Filumena, Trouble in Tahiti, Triplets in Uniform, Jesus Christ Superstar, Falsettos, Gifts of the Magi and Lullaby of Broadway. For the past 25 years he has directed and co-produced the annual S.T.A.G.E. fund raisers for AIDS charities, saluting the theatre music of noted composers and lyricists. He has also helmed all of the S.T.A.G.E. Too benefits for The Actors’ Fund of America – Kurt Weill: The Centennial, Tap Your Troubles Away: The Words and Music of Jerry Herman, The Richard Rodgers Centennial – Something Wonderful, Sing Happy, The Words and Music of Kander and Ebb, The Best is Yet to Come – The Music of Cy Coleman, Hooray For Love – A Celebration of the Music of Harold Arlen, Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Jule Styne Centennial and Falsettos. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Stage Alliance’s Ovation Career Achievement Award.