BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS
Leon has been picked by Back Stage magazine for their "Take Fivers" for 2009. The magazine will follow Leon & four other actors through 2009 with monthly articles that track their progress throughout the coming year.
Check back soon for more info...
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Final Remains Gets US DVD Release Jan. 27
Leon Stars as Murderous Mortician in 2006 Horror Film
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After two title changes (Mortified, Mortuary), and several years after completion of principal photography, Shawn Hazeleur's horror thriller Final Remains, in which Leon stars as mortician and serial killer Henry Parks, will finally make its US DVD debut on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, from Vanguard Cinema.
The film also stars Michelle Bellaver, Heather Hartmann, Mike Holley, Dan Lawson, Page Jackson & Phil Sheridan.
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Carved in Stone Staged Reading Nov. 2 at Theatre Asylum
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Leon joins the rest of the LA cast of Carved in Stone Nov. 9 at 2pm at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood for a staged reading of Jeffrey Hartgraves' hilarious after-life literary comedy.
Admission is free. The reading will be followed by a wine-and-cheese reception.
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| Photo: Peter Solari |
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Jeffrey Hartgraves Passes Away at 47
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Jeffrey Hartgraves, the prolific, gifted and San Francisco theatre artist -- and Leon's dear friend and frequent collaborator -- passed away early Sept. 25, following a three-year battle against bone cancer. He was 47.
Leon just produced and hosted the benefit The Butterfly Effect, a benefit for the Jeffrey Hartgraves' Recovery Fund, in April 2008, featuring many of Jeffrey's theatrical cohorts, at Theatre Rhinoceros. The benefit raised more then $10,000.
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| Jeffrey Hartgraves |
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Leon Goes Solo for a Good Cause
Performs in Monologue Madness! Benefit for Doctors Without Borders
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Leon joined Starving Actors for Starving Children for Monologue Madness!, a benefit for Doctors Without Borders, on August 16 at 8p.m. at Electric Lodge Theatre in Venice, produced and directed by Lisa Soulé Christensen.
The evening featured Hollywood actors performing their audition pieces. Leon performed two monologues: one from Jonathan Tollins' stage comedy Last Sunday in June, in which he appeared at New Conservatory in San Francisco in 2004; the second from his dramatic film OUT, which he also wrote.
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| "Last Sunday in June" Photo: Norm Palley |
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Carved in Stone Comes to LA Spring 2009
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(July 2008) After a triumphant run in San
Francisco, Jeffrey Hartgraves’ stage comedy Carved in Stone comes
to Los Angeles
in Spring 2009.
Los Angeles actors Kevin
Remington (Truman Capote), Jesse Merlin (Oscar Wilde) and Curt Bonnem
(Tennessee Williams) will join original cast members Leon Acord (Quentin Crisp) and Matthew Martin (Gertrude Stein/Judy
Garland/Bette Davis) for the Los
Angeles run.
Read MORE or check the show's Official Website for more details.
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Butterfly Effect Raises Over $10,000 For Jeffrey Hartgraves Cancer Recovery Fund!
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The Butterfly Effect: An All-Star Gala Benefiting the Jeffrey Hartgraves Cancer Recovery Fund was a tremendous success, raising over $10,000 for the Fund!
Leon co-produced and hosted the sold-out event to raise money to assist good friend and frequent collaborator Hartgraves in his battle against bone cancer.
Well-known Bay Area talents Connie Champagne, Leigh Crow, Veronica Klaus, Matthew Martin, Trauma Flintstone, David Bicha & Don Seaver, davidmahr, Liz Ryan, T.J. Lee, Donald Currie and Libby O'Connell lent their support ... READ MORE
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| Leon & Jeffrey Hartgraves Photo: Steve Savage |
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Leon Celebrates Quentin Crisp's 100th with Interview
Website to Interview Actors Who Have Played Crisp
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Leon recently sat down for an interview with Nigel Kelly, webmaster of the QuentinCrisp.info website, to discuss his experiences playing Qunetin Crisp in the 2002 smash stage comedy Carved in Stone, and the impression Crisp made on him, in honor of what would have been Mr. Crisp's 100th birthday.
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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT GIFT SHOP!
T-Shirts! Buttons! Clocks! More!
All Proceeds Go To The Jeffrey Hartgraves Cancer Recovery Fund
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