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. Although giving Jeff a whole host of identity issues and a worrying love of tights, it did secure his love for performing and he has been doing so ever since. Always playing the fool, Jeff knew that comedy and acting would always be his true passion.
His obsession with acting throughout his school days led Jeff to spending three years studying theatre studies at Warwick University. Whilst there, Jeff nabbed the position of station manager and drive-time host for his student radio station, and secured himself 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’ giving 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 sexually confusing.
At the end of 2007 Jeff met a producer, whilst DJ’ing at Bestival, who picked up on his engaging presence and evident comic timing and offered him a screen test. Jeff was immediately signed up to present for the BBC, fronting The Surgery and Scene Stealers for BBC Switch in 2008. 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, 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 and runs his own Time Out and londonisfunny recommended comedy club every fortnight at Paradise by way of Kensal Rise, honing his compering skills and working with the greatest in established and new british talent.
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 anyone who will watch. That means you.