Lawrence Leung
Actor, Writer and Award Winning Comedian
Award-winning comedian, screenwriter, and speaker Lawrence Leung explores curiosity, science, and the quirks of human behaviour. Creator of Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable, he delivers hilarious, insightful performances at events worldwide.
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Lawrence Leung is a multi award-winning Australian comedian, screenwriter, and speaker who specialises in projects at the intersection of curiosity and comedy. He created the ABC TV comedy shows Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable and the AFI Award-nominated Choose Your Own Adventure, and co-wrote and starred in ABC2’s action/comedy series Maximum Choppage. He has written for The Family Law (SBS2), contributed pranks for The Chasers War on Everything (ABC1), presented segments for The Feed (SBS2), and acted in Jane Campion’s Top of The Lake – China Girl and Ten’s Offspring as Dr Elvis. More recently, he presented ABC Catalyst’s documentary SLEEP MATTERS on the science of sleep.
Lawrence’s comedy covers both personal and fascinating topics—from growing up and ghost-hunting in Scottish castles, to break-ups, breakdancing, poker cheating, and jetpack inventors. His original one-man shows have been performed at festivals and theatres worldwide, including the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House. His show Lawrence Leung Learns To Breakdance won the Age Critics Award at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the 2008 Best Australian Act at the Sydney Comedy Festival. He also received the 2009 Sydney Comedy Festival Jury Award (with Andrew McClelland) for Time Ninjas.
His debut show Sucker (Best Solo Show, Melbourne Fringe) was adapted into the AWGIE-nominated feature film Sucker, starring Timothy Spall. Lawrence is also a science communicator fascinated by psychology, belief, and deception. His solo show Very Strange Things explored fraudulent psychic techniques and won the 2017 MMF Directors’ Choice Award and a 2018 Fringe World Best Comedy nomination. He has lectured internationally, MCed Skepticon Australia and the Global Atheist Convention, and interviewed science advocates including James Randi, Paul Davies, and Bill Nye.
A University of Melbourne psychology graduate, Lawrence has a Star Wars character named after him and once solved a Rubik’s Cube in free-fall before the parachute was pulled—proof of his curiosity, creativity, and fearless sense of humour.
