Léland Downs Karas
Léland is a graduate of Gainesville State College where she earned a degree in Theatre, Speech and Drama and Athens Technical College with a degree in Radiography. She enjoys saving people's lives and entertaining them. Favorite roles include Rizzo in "Grease", the title role in "Sylvia", and the sassy newly-wed Corrie in "Barefoot in the Park".
Directed
- The Red Velvet Cake War — 2012
- Our Town — 2016
- Four Old Broads — 2017
- Christmas Belles — 2017
- Murdered to Death — 2018
- Four Old Broads on the High Seas — 2019
- The Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant — 2021
- The Last Round-up of the Guacamole Queens — 2022
Roles
- Shelby in Steel Magnolias — 2008
- Assistant Director in The Man Who Came to Dinner — 2008
- Jean McCormack in Plaza Suite — 2007
- Muffy in To Grandmother's House We Go — 2006
- Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace — 2006
- Corie Bratter in Barefoot in the Park — 2006
- Sabrina Fairchild in Sabrina Fair — 2009
- Assistant Director in Dearly Departed — 2011
- Annelle in Steel Magnolias — 2012
- Director in Dearly Beloved — 2013
- Tina Jo / Gina Jo in Dearly Beloved — 2013
- Co-Director, Paulette Coogan, Donna Jo Austin in Dashing Through the Snow — 2013
- Director in 13 Past Midnight — 2014
- Meg in Leading Ladies — 2015
- Marsha in The Harmony Baptist Church Ladies Auxiliary Christmas Jubilee — 2016
- Rosalind in Moon Over Buffalo — 2017
- Gina Jo in Christmas Belles — 2017
- Bev in Four Weddings and an Elvis — 2018
- Margaret Craddock in Murdered to Death — 2018
- Dorothy in It Was a Dark and Stormy Night — 2019
- Caroline in Packing Up Polly — 2022