Author: lawrence

ACMI CONVERSATIONS

Lawrence recounted tales, triumphs and tribulations when it comes to being an Asian Australian working in media. This ACMI panel included playwright/actress Michelle Law (Single Asian Female, Homecoming Queens) with director Corrie Chen (Homecoming Queens, Mustangs FC) and TV showrunner Tony Ayres (Family Law, Glitch).

ANNUAL DIVERSITY DEBATE

Lawrence gave an hilarious and insightful speech at the recent 7th Annual Diversity Debate, presented by the Diversity Council of Australia. Lawrence was on the affirmative team arguing that “It is a good idea to bring your ‘whole self’ to work.”

CREATIVE TECH PITCH NIGHT

Lawrence hosted the ACMI X-CEL ACCELERATOR pitch event. After taking their tech ideas through a 12 week boot camp of ‘start up’ coaching, seven teams pitched their creative visions in 5min mini-TED talks to hopefully secure funding and interest.

Feel free to drop us an email,  if you would like Lawrence to speak at your event.

COMEDY + SCIENCE! Lawrence Leung is heading to Tasmania as part of National Science Week in conjunction with some top comedy venues in three cities.

HOBART Wed Aug 15:
http://www.jokerscomedy.com.au/bookings.html

FRANKLIN Thurs Aug 16:
http://www.frankscider.com.au/funnies-at-franks/

LAUNCESTON Fri Aug 17:
https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=392714&

WHAT IS UNTHINKABLE?

UNTHINKABLE is Lawrence’s new hilariously twisted, mind-bending theatre show and the follow-up to last year’s award-winning “Very Strange Things” (2017 MMF Directors Choice Award 2017, Best Comedy Nominee 2018 Fringe World).

FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY

JULY 10-14

THE DARK @ 35 Johnston St Collingwood, Victoria.

BOOK TICKETS – CLICK HERE

(Cheaper Preview ticket – Tues 10th July only)

An unbelievable evening of twisted experiments, psychological game-play and intimate investigations into bizarre coincidence and unusual phenomena. The beginning is unexplainable, the ending is unthinkable.

Lawrence Leung is an award-winning comedian, screenwriter, science communicator and designer of illusions for stage and screen. He has spoken about paranormal investigation at science and skeptics’ conferences, lectured on the psychology of magic and lying at universities and made a feature film about con artists (SUCKER). He also created the ABC documentary series UNBELIEVABLE where he travelled the globe, meeting famous sceptics, mentalists, pickpockets and neuroscientists that explored the edge between deception, illusion and the unexplainable.

UNTHINKABLE.

FOR MORE:  CLICK  HERE

Lawrence’s award-winning show VERY STRANGE THINGS is on at the ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL for an exclusive 2-night season.

UPDATE: SELLING FAST, Book now!

13 & 14 JUNE

ARTSPACE @ ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE

TICKETS CLICK HERE

Pro-science comedian and celebrated nerd, Lawrence Leung hosted the 33rd Annual Australian Sceptics Conference, if you can believe it.

Skepticon Australia was a massive two day event in Sydney for all lovers of science & mythbusting. Speakers included scientists, documentary filmmakers, astrophysicists, former-naturopaths, doctors against anti-vaxxers, cancer biologists, poets, secular activists, comedians and podcasters.

Prof Alan Duffy and a Mars Rover.

Some highlights included ‘walking-wikipedia’ Dr Karl talking about Great Moments in Skepticism, Youtube sensation Captain Disillusion talking about viral scepticism without the cynicism,  vaccination campaigner Catherine Hughes relating her encounters the anti-vax movement, ABC’s astrophysicist Professor Alan Duffy introducing a Mars Rover on stage , Cara Santa Maria (Talk Nerdy, National Geographic) dissecting the state of science communication in post-truth America, Ruth Ellison on escaping a religious cult, and a live recording from the comedic Cognitive Dissonance podcast.

Attempting to solve a Rubik’s Cube whilst blindfolded is one way to impress and out-geek the celebrity super-minds in my company.

The Bent Spoon Award – Australia’s least coveted prize is bestowed annually upon the country’s biggest bullshitter. This is an individual or organisation that peddles nonsense claims or products without any scientific evidence that they actually work, or the promotion of pseudoscience in the public sphere.

Lawrence joined famed science communicator and US national treasure Bill Nye on-stage at his Melbourne show. Together they tackled all manner of fascinating, geeky and curious Audience Questions.

Lawrence wore a bowtie to match Mr Nye, but came across looking like “Bad Chinese Doctor Who Cosplay.”

Off the back of his new Netflix series Bill Nye Saves The World, the educator/science activist toured packed-out theatres Sydney and Melbourne with his trademark wit, wisdom, no-nonsense evidence-based rants and entertaining anecdotes covering everything from his mother’s top secret Enigma codebreaking, to solutions for climate change and the limitations of Mars colonisation.