Leslie Jordan Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Production Grant Award for his screenplay "Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel․"
• Won an Ovation Award, a Garland Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his role in the play "Southern Baptist Sissies․"
• Quote: "I learned to be funny because of the bullies at school who would shout 'smear the queer' during dodge ball - I learned they wouldn't throw the ball at me quite so much if I made them laugh․"
• Wrote the play "Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Thus Far," which had an off-Broadway run
• Wrote the book "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet," on which he based his one-man show of the same name
• Briefly worked as a jockey
• Created the autobiographical one-man show "Like a Dog on Linoleum․"