January 2020 article about Muffy

MUFFY PERFORMS AT CONFERENCES AND INSIDE PRISONS/JAILS

Comedian Muffy aka Laura J. Steele-Liebman, MA, CHES, is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) from The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. with a master's degree from New York University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in Communication and Psychology. 

She has over twenty-six years of professional work experience in Public Health, Behavioral Health, and Healthcare. 

Muffy grew up around Corrections, her parents, Drs. William and Nancy Steele, Clinical Psychologists, worked for prisons in Colorado, Ohio, and Minnesota. As a child, Muffy grew up across the street from a Canon City, Colorado, prison. Her Dad played Richard Pryor's records for her, thus beginning her love of comedy.  

She has written two books (for sale on Amazon), a children's book, Mommy Do Dinosaurs Have Belly Buttons, and 26 Life Lessons: Advice for Today's Youth and Adults. 

She has performed at the Comic Strip in NYC, Dangerfield's Comedy Club in NYC, The Broadway Comedy Club in NYC, and various other NYC/NJ comedy clubs.  

On July 29, 2022, she gave four thirty-minute performances (two men's groups and two women's groups) at the Nassau County Jail and Detention Center, Long Island, New York. She was invited by Sheriff James (Jim) Dzurenda. 

On December 27, 2018, at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville, Iowa, for 600 imprisoned women and staff (please view the testimonial video following these performances from Warden Cheryl Dahm).

Additionally, on July 11, 2019, she performed at The Coleman Federal Correctional Complex outside Orlando, Florida, for 143 incarcerated individuals and staff. 

On January 15, 2020, Muffy was the keynote after-dinner speaker at The 2020 Iowa State Association of Counties,  ISAC University conference in West Des Moines, Iowa.