Tony Leech

Tony Leech

Tony Leech is an American-actor, screen writer and producer. Born in Southfield, Michigan on May 28, 1968, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Tony attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While a student there, Leech and fellow ORU student Mark Steele (comedian/producer), along with some friends, wrote and performed a stand-up comedy show called Standing Room Only, or SRO. Leech acted, co-wrote and produced for the Fire By Nite Christian variety show that was based at Willie George Ministries in Tulsa. He also worked on projects with Teen Mania Ministries, then based in Tulsa and headed by ORU-alumnus Ron Luce.

Tony acted in the 1990 music video/short film Beyond Belief by tge Christian rock band Petra. He was a writer for the Christian variety show Carman: Time 2 hosted by singer Carman (singer). In 1999, Leech acted in 3 short films, Pit of Vipers, Holy Hollywood (along with Mickey Roonie and Camille Keaton) and Chillicothe (film)|Chillicothe]] where he served as first assistant director.

Leech later served as a writer, editor, actor and director of the animated 2005 film Hoodwinked!, in conjunction with friends Cory Edwards and Tony Edwards and released by The Weinstein Company. He produced, directed, edited and wrote the film short Gene in 2009, then worked with the Edwards brothers again to write Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, the 2010 sequel to Hoodwinked!.

He and Cory Edwards have also written/produced Escape From Planet Earth which is awaiting release.