Lelander Comedy

I'm from Minnesota, where I grew up enjoying the wonderful outdoors that beautiful state has to offer, especially fishing, hiking, and playing baseball and football.

After my first year at Winona State University, which is in southeastern Minnesota, I discovered acting, in which I immediately got professional training, and pursued a professional career. For my first professional acting job, I acted in a troupe at CLIMB Children's Theater, based in St. Paul, where I was able to tour almost half of the schools in the entire western part of Minnesota.

That was immediately followed by a pivotal role I played in the American-premiere production of the British farce, "IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY", which ran at The Old Log Theater, in Excelsior, MN, which is one of the very first dinner theaters in the country. Our production ran for nine months straight.

As soon as that production ran its course, I moved to Los Angeles, where I studied acting with the great Eric Morris, and his son, Jeff Morris, then earned many roles on national and international TV and radio commercials.

These were followed by numerous theater and television show roles. Now, to keep myself creatively sane, in the meantime, I am honing my craft of stand-up comedy, and enjoy playing guitar.