Miss Coco Peru

Miss Coco Peru aka Clinton Leupp has written, produced, directed, and starred in one person shows across the globe including Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret, Miss Coco Peru: A Legend in Progress (1992 MAC Award), Miss Coco Peru’s Universe (1998 GLAAD Media Award nomination), Miss Coco Peru’s Glorious Wounds…she’s damaged (2001 GLAAD Media Award nomination), and Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted (2004 GLAAD Media Award for Best L.A. Theater).

On screen, Miss Coco was seen in the feature films To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, trick, Straight-Jacket, Disney's animated feature The Wild (as a Mama Hippo) and Girls Will Be Girls. 

TV appearances include Will and Grace and Arrested Development as well as her very own Half-Hour Comedy Special on LOGO’s Wisecrack Series.

An avid traveler, Coco has performed in theaters and other venues all around the world including a yacht in The Mediterranean, a living room in Pittsburgh, and a nudist camp in the mountains of Malibu, CA.

Come catch up with Coco in what will be like a gathering of friends getting together for an evening of intimate chit-chat…but only Coco gets to talk.

"'Ugly Coco' is transformative. The show, directed by Michael Schiralli, transcends the complaints to become Coco's personal tale of perseverance and transformation, related with biting humor and occasional interludes of song." – L.A. Times

"...[Ugly Coco] at first looks like standup in heels. As the performer continues, however, first one thread and then the other are deftly picked up and woven together, and by the time it's over, elements as disparate as the Peter Pan ride at Disney World, drag as a calling, and a favorite stained-glass window at St. John the Divine synthesize into something that hearkens to the very root of theatre: storytelling as immanence." – Backstage West

"Hilarious, inebriating and elegant all at the same time... If there were an award for most girlish and glamorous, funniest, mouthiest diva/icon/trannie/comedian, the inimitable Miss Coco Peru would win hands down." – L.A. Weekly

"Miss Coco is a heavenly hoot... Wry and uncensored, the show is a hilarious exorcism, with music, no less. Hey, that's entertainment." – Los Angeles Times

"A composite of dozens of creamy homegrown femmes fatales." – The New York Times

"It is the brutal honesty behind the comic facade that makes Miss Coco Peru a special event." – San Francisco Bay Area Reporter