Leonora Pitts is an actress, filmmaker, dancer, and community organizer, born and raised in Grand Forks, ND. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received her BFA in Acting, studying with the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Upon her graduation, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Atlantic and NYU, and a year later, Atlantic hired Leonora onto their faculty, where she taught for the following three years.
As an actress and dancer, Leonora spent several years on the New York stage, including a lengthy run in the long-running off-Broadway hit, The Donkey Show. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has appeared on numerous television shows including The Grinder, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rita Rocks, and The Rookie, and is a recurring character on the Apple+ series, For All Mankind. She recently acted opposite Adrian Brody and the late Ray Liotta in Charlie Day’s feature film debut, Fool’s Paradise. She has also continued her teaching and coaching career.
She continues to collaborate with the prolific Duplass Brothers, co-starring in the films The Freebie, and Manson Family Vacation, and guest-starring on two of their HBO series, Togetherness and Room 104.
Leonora’s four short films have collectively screened at over fifty festivals worldwide, including the Aspen Shortsfest, Outfest, Mill Valley, Citizen Jane, Heartland, Bentonville, and Indie Memphis.
Leonora is the creator and host of Mothering Heights, a weekly podcast focused on the intersection between caretaking, creativity, and community.
She is the co-founder and leader of the Los Angeles Women’s Film Collective and the popular LA moms’ group NELA Mamas. She spent eight years serving as one of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s City Commissioners, working on habitability issues surrounding the rent-stabilized properties of the City of Los Angeles. She is a board member emeritus for the Independent Shakespeare Company, which brings free Shakespeare in Griffith Park to nearly 50,000 Angelenos every summer, and is a founding member and on the advisory council for the legendary Vidiots Foundation. She and her husband Scott Pitts have two young children.
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