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Above Your Nerve
Each term I teach at Soho Theatre, I learn more and more about the art of stand up, through the participants I work with. I have developed my teaching style and courses over the years and started Above Your Nerve, to continue nurturing emerging artists. The company is dedicated to finding and promoting new voices from underrepresented groups, so that the comedy industry becomes more reflective of the communities and world we live in.
Directing
As a director, I look to collaborate with an artist, to bring out the best in them and their work. My aim is to help facilitate their vision, evolve their material and polish their performance.
Currently, I am working with Katie Norris, on her show 'Farm Fatale'. Recently, I joined the creative team at Shotgun Carousel, on 'The Grotteaux'.
Reviews . . .
Or things people have written about things I've written (and how I've said them)
“Calm, collected and funny…”
[ThreeWeeks]
“Think Morecambe and Wise meets Smack the Pony…”
[Funny Women]
“Gemma Leader is impressive. Her material is good, as is her timing . . . she’s in panel show territory…”
[The List]
Where you can see their work . . .
Morossa is Head of Cabaret at Shotgun Carousel, and has performed and curated cabaret all over the country including Glastonbury Festival, Royal Academy, Tate Modern, The Vaults, Latitude Festival and Courtauld Gallery to name a few.
They were crowned Miss Ghostwood in the Miss Twin Peaks Pageant 2018, and regularly perform with the dark, Lynchian cabaret show The Double R Club.
Facilitating, writing and more . . .
They taught the Cabaret & Drag classes at Soho Theatre for a number of years, with Celine Lowenthal (of PECS Drag King Collective) and Leah Kirby (aka Cyro).
Morossa is one of the creative producers on Third Mind Production & Guerilla Zoo’s theatrical event The Goblin King’s Masquerade Ball. They wrote, produced and performed 2 solo shows, Carnival of Crows (Winner Best Actress Award - Dark Chat 2012) and Greywing House (Winner Vault Festival Spirit Award 2017).
Oh do go on . . .
Since becoming a finalist of Europe’s biggest drag king competition, Man Up, in 2016, Len has been kinging in alternative cabaret lineups at iconic queer London venues like the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The Glory, and Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, as well as at Southbank Centre, the Clapham Grand, the Hackney Empire the National Theatre’s River Stage. In 2018 Len put kings on a national platform when they sang in drag on BBC 1 prime time's All Together Now.
Len’s character comedy solo show 'Len Blanco: Firing Blancs' ran at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and 2019, and was then programmed at the Soho Theatre and the Wales Millennium Centre. They are a former Roundhouse Resident Artist and have taught the Drag and Cabaret Lab at Soho Theatre.
What about facilitating and the like . . .
They are also an experienced facilitator and workshop leader, co-leading Soho Theatre’s Cabaret & Drag Lab (2017-2021), and delivering workshops for drama schools (ArtsEd, ALRA, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School), theatres (Roundhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Clapham Omnibus, Lyric Hammersmith), and community groups (Clapham Library, Streatham Space, Sheffield People’s Theatre). They are a regular facilitator for queer theatre company Milk Presents.
Is that it then?
No! Our Celine is a polymath. In their other life as a writer, they are currently finishing their first novel, a queer literary crime caper set in St Tropez, for which they received an Arts Council DYCP grant in 2021, and are represented by United Agents.