liana mesaikou
WRITER – COMEDIAN HOST
Feminist * Immigrant * Storyteller
Liana Mesaikou is an LA-based Greek artist (actress, comedian, writer). She has acted in a number of theater productions in Greece, London and LA. She earned her Master’s in Text & Performance Studies at King’s College London & RADA, and has studied comedy at The Groundlings, iO West and Second City. In 2019, she completed her MFA in Screenwriting at UC Riverside where she developed two comedic interactive projects for kids as part of her Gluck fellowship. Liana wrote the script for the 12th Orpheus Awards at the LA Greek Film Festival in 2018, and was a contributor on Ladies Night Live. Her first one-woman show Fifty Shades of Melania premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June 2019, and traveled to the New York Fringe in October. She was a member of the all-female group “Butter Sketch Comedy”, and she’s also a member of “The Interlocutors”, a long-form improv team. She can be seen around LA performing improv and sketch comedy at venues such as the Gary Austin stage at the Groundlings, Second City, the Pack Theater etc., as well as your zoom screens! Liana loves making people laugh, because it will be the closest she’ll ever get to being a heart-surgeon. And her grandmother always wanted her to marry one!