Lea McCormick

Lea (pronounced "Lee") grew up in a neighborhood in a small town in Oklahoma. She is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. She spent her summers as a kid playing softball, visiting her grandparents, & staying outside from sun up to sun down. The middle child of a teacher and a stay at home mom, she learned the importance of education and spending time with family is. At age 9, She wrote, directed, starred in, sold tickets for(sold out), built the set for a play about the story of Helen Keller at the back porch theater. After a long hiatus (30 years) She returned to the stage portraying an old Native woman in Nanyehi, A musical about the last Cherokee Beloved Woman. Written by Becky Hobbs and Nick Sweet. During her hiatus, she went to college on an athletic training scholarship after being an athletic trainer at her school from 7 to 12th grade. She left college and went to school to be a paramedic, she worked 10 years either on an ambulance or in the ER until taking a job at a Cardiolo