Lea McCormick

Lea (pronounced "Lee") grew up in a neighborhood in a small town in Oklahoma. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation. She spent her summers as a kid playing softball, visiting her grandparents, & staying outside from sun up to sun down. The middle child of a teacher and a stay at home mom, she learned the importance of education and spending time with family At age 9, She wrote, directed, starred in, sold tickets for(sold out), built the set for a play about the story of Helen Keller at the back porch theater. After a long hiatus (30 years) She returned to the stage portraying an old Native woman in Nanyehi, A musical about the last Cherokee Beloved Woman. Written by Becky Hobbs and Nick Sweet. During her hiatus, she went to college on an athletic training scholarship after being an athletic trainer at her school from 7 to 12th grade. She left college and went to school to be a paramedic, she worked 10 years either on an ambulance or in the ER until taking a job at a Cardiology group as an EKG technician for nuclear stress testing. She is a Native American artist and craftsman & teaches Native American crafts as a private contractor. She also sang with Native Praise choir, a choral group that represents 22 native tribes and sings in 5 Native languages all over the world. Comedy is her favorite thing in the world. Hearing others laugh and laughing herself are Heaven on earth. Lea is very active in Native Theater all over the United States. She is studying acting with Tom Todoroff and comedy with Matthew Barry.