FOMO: FORMERLY MORMON to Play Hollywood Fringe Festival
Actor-writer Frankie Lee brings his award-winning solo comedy about leaving the Mormon Church to Los Angeles.
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New York comedian and performer Frankie Lee brings his celebrated solo show, FoMo: Formerly Mormon, to the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June for five performances at The Broadwater (Second Stage), 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA.
Equal parts heartfelt and hilarious, FoMo: Formerly Mormon is the story of a young man discovering his queer identity while signing his life away to the Mormon Church. Frankie Lee takes the audience along for the ride as he genuinely, and humorously, reflects on the opportunity he seized to escape Mormonism and live as a gay man, despite the very real pain and opposition he faced along the way.
“FoMo has shown me the power live theater holds to connect and heal,” said Frankie Lee, writer and actor in FoMo. “This was a challenge to myself — to build something from scratch and soar with it.
The show moves with urgency and intimacy, weaving between tender self-reckoning and laugh-out-loud comedy. Lee plays every character himself: the bishop, the gay angel, the congregation, and the young man caught between two callings he cannot reconcile. What emerges is a solo show that is at once a confession, a celebration, and a love letter to anyone who has ever had to choose between who they were told to be and who they are.
A veteran of The Second City New York, The PIT, and UCB NY, Lee has been performing and honing FoMo since its premiere at the Denver Fringe Festival, where it earned two awards and went on to an extended run at Benchmark Theatre in Lakewood, Colorado. Now the show makes its Hollywood Fringe debut for five nights of love, loss, tears, and queer cheers.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
All performances at The Broadwater (Second Stage), 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Runtime: 50 minutes.
- Preview — Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | 8:00 PM
- — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | 9:30 PM
- — Friday, June 12, 2026 | 5:00 PM
- — Saturday, June 13, 2026 | 10:30 PM
- — Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 2:00 PM
Tickets & Info: hollywoodfringe.org
ABOUT Frankie Lee
Frankie Lee is an actor, writer, and comedian in New York City. He's a graduate of The Second City Conservatory Program, and a UCB alum. Lee also performs with the PIT house improv ensembles and works with Brooklyn Comedy Collective on new shows. He is best known for his award-winning solo-show, FoMo: Formerly Mormon, which he wrote and stars in. Past theatrical credits include Joe in Angels in America, Jon in tick tick… BOOM and Donald in Boys in the Band.
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