Jeff Leach
Actor and comedian Jeff Leach is a young man hell bent on world domination. He started acting at the tender age of four years old, with a lead cross-dressing role as Madame Diptheria Iceberg in his first school production. Whilst probably filling the poor soul with a whole host of identity issues, it did secure his love for performing and he has been doing so ever since. Always playing the fool, Jeff knew that his penchant for comedy and acting were what kept his blood pumping through his veins.
His obsession with acting throughout his school days led Jeff to spending three years studying theatre studies at Warwick University. Three miserable years, relieved only by nabbing the position of station manager and drive-time host for his student radio station, which secured him work at commercial stations Mercia FM, Kerrang! And Xfm whilst still studying. He also spent this time honing his skills as a improvisation and sketch comedy actor as part of the Improverts which gave him invaluable skills in the art of character acting. Once university had run it’s course, he performed as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival in a lead role and once again got to wear tights. This time it just felt nice rather than emotionally confusing.
In early 2008, Jeff met a producer who picked up on his engaging presence and evident comic timing and offered his a screen test. Jeff was immediately signed up to present for the BBC, fronting The Surgery and Scene Stealers. In the past two years he has stormed into focus as exciting new talent with shows such as T in the Park Festival, Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Virgin Music On Demand, Celebrity Scissorhands and Comic Relief Naughty Bits. He also spent alot of 2009 performing in comedy clubs and comedy tents at festivals throughout the UK as a member of The Story Pirates sketch group.
He now performs his own opulent and revealing brand of stand up comedy regularly, which includes numerous comedy characters, writes and performs his own comedy sketches and is working on various roles for both tv and film. Jeff wanted to have a life changing effect on the world and fittingly decided to play Jesus Christ in a number of comedy shorts currently being edited for online sites Funny Or Die and Myspace Comedy. ‘Jeff Leach: Leach On Society’ is the one man show Jeff is lovingly forming for Edinburgh Festival 2010.
Jeff wants to help the world cultivate the habit of laughter, use his stand up as a form of frightening self-therapy and share his abundant acting ability with the favourite people in his life… the audience.
http://www.jeffreyleach.com/