Josh Leeper
Appalachian roots. Chicago grit. Human stories.
Actor • Voice Artist • Producer
Current Creating
In Post-ProductionThe Ladybugz
A 1960s period piece that highlights all the highs and lows they will encounter while pursuing their dream. A retelling of the story of The Beatles, if they were an all-female band instead.
Advocate Health Care
All season long, watch Josh eat a Chicago-style hot dog during commercial breaks during the Chicago Bears games to promote taking care of your gut! After all, it takes a lot of care to be a Bears fan.
Plaud Campaign
Josh joins the roster of eccentric meeting lovers in the next Plaud campaign and provides the ad's voiceover. Keep an eye out for the ad playing nationally!
IN POST-PRODUCTIONComplicit
After a forbidden affair between a professor and her student is secretly recorded and released, both find themselves trapped in a spiraling scandal where reputations are destroyed and the truth becomes the most dangerous thing of all.
Josh joins the cast as Chair of the University oversight committee, Lee.
Chicago Med
Members of the city's most highly skilled medical team save lives while navigating their unique interpersonal relationships. The Gaffney Chicago Medical Center's elite team of dedicated doctors, nurses, and staff faces challenges each day as they do what it takes to treat their patients, sometimes in surprisingly inventive ways.
Josh joined the cast of Dick Wolf’s Chicago Med for a two-episode arc during their eighth season as Rob Graham.
Quantum
By Quantum Leeper
Quantum is a sharp, genre-blending album that moves between the personal and the political with equal precision.
Written and performed by me as Quantum Leeper, the project explores the tension between intimacy and scale, falling in love on a train, questioning inherited beliefs, and confronting larger systems like wealth disparity and power. Grounded in Chicago, the album uses specificity and humor to navigate complex, often uncomfortable realities without losing its sense of play.
At its core, Quantum is about living in contradiction and finding clarity, or at least connection, within it.
A Short Leap Theatre Company
Josh is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of A Short Leap Theatre Company, a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to fostering the growth and development of Chicago performing artists by being intentional, thoughtful, and professional in all rehearsals, productions, and performances, and in doing so, celebrating your win, my win, our win.
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Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding
Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding is a one-of-a-kind night of entertainment – an immersive comedy show staged as an evening of nuptials for two Italian-American families. It invites the audience to actively participate in all festivities: everyone is a welcome guest at the ceremony and reception, there’s real food, real dance, and real mingling with the cast of loveable characters.
“Just like a real wedding… only funnier.”
–Chicago Tribune