about
Katherine Biskupic and Leah Frires make up Pure & Weary, a comedy duo 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.
Their first names mean Pure & Weary.
Meet Pure...
Katherine Biskupic is a comedy writer and facilitator based in Los Angeles via Chicago and Wisconsin. She has worked with the Second City Training Center, The Annoyance Theatre, iO Chicago, Citadel Theatre, Stage 773, Writers’ Theatre, Door Shakespeare, Madison Children’s Theatre, and Savvy Theatre Works (Bocas, Mexico). 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 an actor and writer born and bred in Cleveland, Ohio, currently living in LA via Chicago. She has had the pleasure of working with such theatres as The Annoyance Theatre, The Second City Training Center, iO Chicago, Stage 773, The Raven Theatre and the Uptown Underground. She was a cast member of the non-equity Jeff-nominated show, Playboy of the Western World, at the Raven Theatre and is a four-year member of Burlesque Is More, a Chicago Reader nominated show for "Best Burlesque Troupe".
*Photography by Leslie Hassler