about
Katherine Biskupic and Leah Frires make up Pure & Weary, a comedy team based in Los Angeles via Chicago, their first love (cue Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”).
Pure & Weary have headlined and performed at comedy festivals all over the country, from New York to Seattle and all the places with lower gas prices in between. They've been named Top 10 Finalists for Final Draft’s Big Break Competition, semifinalists for the Second City Original Sitcom Contest and "Best Sketch Group" at the Joshua Tree International Comedy Festival. Their comedy videos have been featured on Vulture, Funny or Die, UPROXX, USA Today, WhoHaHa and the iO Comedy Network. They love hosting and performing in shows all over Los Angeles and also produce videos for a range of clients (more on that here).
Their first names mean Pure & Weary. Meet them and find out who is who!
Meet Pure...
Katherine Biskupic is a comedy writer, producer and facilitator based in Los Angeles via Chicago and Wisconsin. She has worked with and written for the Second City Training Center, The Comedy Store, Flappers Comedy Club, The Annoyance Theatre, iO Chicago, Citadel Theatre, Stage 773, Writers’ Theatre and Door Shakespeare. She has curated comedy workshops in a wide range of settings from corporate to non-profit and is a graduate of UCLA Arts & Healing Social Emotional Arts facilitator program.
Meet Weary...
Leah Frires is a comedy writer, burlesque performer, producer and video editor born and bred in Cleveland, Ohio, currently living in LA via Chicago. She has worked with and written for KevOnStage Studios, The Lyric Hyperion, The Annoyance Theatre, The Second City Training Center, iO Chicago, Stage 773 and The Raven Theatre. She was a cast member of the non-equity Jeff-nominated show, Playboy of the Western World, at the Raven Theatre and has been performing burlesque for eleven years.
*Photography by Leslie Hassler