*Dear Leader* is a comedy performed live at UCB Theatre in New York City. The piece uses the language of authority and loyalty as raw material, tracing how a “leader” gets invented through repetition, fear, and group laughter. There’s no widely documented NYC premiere history attached to this title, but it sits squarely in the city’s long tradition of downtown satire that treats politics as a social behavior, not just a headline. Its sharpest insight is that devotion can look ordinary until the room agrees to play along.