Whitney LeBlanc, born on June 20th, 1931, in Memphis, Tennessee, spent his formative years in Opelousas, Louisiana. He pursued higher education at the University of Iowa, where he earned a Master's in Theater Production in 1958. LeBlanc began teaching in 1960 at Antioch College, followed by positions at Howard University, Lincoln University, and the University of Texas.

The Speech and Drama Department was established at Towson State College (TSC) by Richard Gillespie in 1964. Just a decade after the ruling of Brown v. Board, Gillespie set out to integrate the department by recruiting Whitney LeBlanc as the assistant professor in Speech and Drama and the first Black faculty member at the school. Despite his contentment as a professor at Howard University at the time, LeBlanc felt compelled to serve the purpose of integrating Towson's faculty. He joined TSC in 1965.

In 1969, he joined the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, directing and producing 86 episodes of Our Street. He then moved to Hollywood, where he joined the Norman Lear/Tandem Tat organization as the Associate Director of Good Times. He would spend the next two decades as a director and a stage manager for numerous shows.