Storyteller/monologist Miss Coco Peru aka Clinton Leupp grew up in the Bronx on City Island and got his/her start as a downtown favorite in the cabaret world of NYC after he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his first show "Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret" in the early 90´s.

On screen, Miss Coco is best known for her roles in Jim Fall's Fineline feature film, trick (Sundance 1999) and Richard Day's IFC feature length comedy Girls Will Be Girls. For this film Coco shared the Best Actress Award with his two co-stars Jeffery Roberson and Jack Plotnick at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen as well as the Best Actor Award at Outfest Film Festival. Other film appearances include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Nick and Jane, and Straight-Jacket. Coco can be heard in the Disney animated feature, The Wild as Mamma Hippo!

Coco has appeared on TV in Arrested Development, Twins, Will and Grace, New York Undercover, Showtime's Rude Awakening, Bravo´s Boy Meets Boy, Bravo´s Sexiest Moments in Film, Bravo´s Welcome to the Parker, and in an Orbitz commercial that was nominated for a 2005 GLAAD Media Award. Coco also has her very own half- hour LOGO comedy special taped as part of the "Wisecrack" series. The episode airs regularly and is available on itunes!

More recently, Coco has been appearing in follow-up Girls Will Be Girls short films, recreating her role from that now cult film on the small, small screen also known as the internet: www.girlswillbegirlsonline.com

Coco´s live one-person shows include: "Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret", "Miss Coco Peru: A Legend in Progress" (´92 MAC and Bistro Award), "Miss Coco Peru at the Westbeth Theatre" (´95 MAC Nomination), "Miss Coco Peru's Liquid Universe"(´98 GLAAD Nomination), "Miss Coco Peru's Universe" (´99 LA GLAAD Nomination), "Miss Coco Peru´s Glorious Wounds…She´s Damaged" (´01 LA GLAAD Nomination) "Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted" (´04 GLAAD Award Winner, Ovation Nomination), and most recently "UGLY COCO." These shows have been performed to sold out audiences in Theatres, Clubs, Restaurants, Ballrooms and Cabarets throughout the US and abroad.

An avid traveler, Some of Miss Peru´s favorite venue´s have been Joe´s Pub, Rose´s Turn and The Westbeth in NY, The Renberg and The Gardenia in Los Angeles, The Colony in Miami, The SOHO Theatre London, Phoenix's Little Theater, Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Charlotte´s McGlohon Theatre, The Blue Moon in Rehoboth, Delaware, The UU in Ptown, Maine Street in Ogunquit, Maine, Toronto´s Buddies in Bad Time Theatre, Harrah´s Reno, a yacht in The Mediterranean, a living room in Pittsburgh, and a nudist camp in the mountains of Malibu, CA.

Coco hosts an on-going live series of shows at the Renberg Theater in Los Angeles called Conversations With Coco in which Coco interviews and celebrates the lives and careers of the GLBT community's favorite icons. Miss Peru's guests have been the amazing Bea Arthur, the sassy Lainie Kazan, drag legend Mr. Charles Busch, and the beautiful Lesley Ann Warren.

At sea, Coco appears exclusively on TravelPride´s all-gay luxury international cruises. www.travelpride.com