Antonio Cipriano has been building toward this moment for a while. He has spent years on Broadway and television, and now he is carving out real space as a singer-songwriter too. Runaways, released in 2025, is one of the clearer signs of where that part of his career is headed.
The Song
Runaways is a tight, three minute and eleven second pop song about wanting to leave everything behind with the one person who makes that feel possible. Cipriano takes lead vocals, with background vocals from Justine Verheul, his real life partner since 2023, which gives the song a layer of authenticity that is hard to fake. The writing credits include Cipriano, Verheul, and Adam Watts and Josh Vida, a songwriting team with a strong pop pedigree.
The lyrics lean fully into the fantasy of escape. Let’s get in the car and drive all night, and we won’t stop till we’re out of sight. It is the kind of song built around motion, about getting away from wherever you are and choosing someone to go with instead. Baby, we’ll be runaways, run away together becomes the hook that the whole song circles back to, simple and direct in a way that makes it easy to sing along to after one listen.
Musically it sits in approachable, radio-friendly pop territory, built for warm weather and open windows rather than anything moody or complicated. That is exactly what it is going for, and it succeeds at being that kind of song. There is an official music video as well, with Cipriano and Verheul’s real relationship clearly informing the chemistry on screen.
Who Is Antonio Cipriano
Cipriano was born May 13, 2000, in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, and his path into entertainment started in musical theatre. He sang with the Michigan Opera Theatre Children’s Chorus growing up and represented Michigan at the 2017 National High School Musical Theatre Awards, often called the Jimmy Awards, where he won the Sutton Foster Ovation Award. That recognition led directly to his break. A casting director reached out after seeing him at the Jimmys, and months later he was auditioning for Broadway.
He made his Broadway debut in 2019 as Phoenix in Jagged Little Pill, a role he played through 2019 and 2020 along with regional productions of the show and of Cinderella. From there his television career took off. He appeared in God Friended Me and City on a Hill in 2019, had a recurring part in The Sex Lives of College Girls in 2021 opposite Renée Rapp, who he dated from 2019 to 2021, joined the main cast of Disney+’s National Treasure: Edge of History in 2022, starred in Harlan Coben’s Shelter on Prime Video in 2023, had a recurring role in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin in 2024, and led A Week Away: The Series on Max in 2025. He also appeared in the film The Alto Knights in 2025 as a young Vito, alongside a co-star who would become very relevant to his next role.
Off Campus and John Logan
That co-star was Belmont Cameli, and the two of them ended up together again on Off Campus, Prime Video’s adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s hockey romance novel series that became one of 2026’s breakout hits. Cipriano plays John Logan, Garrett Graham’s best friend, roommate, and a right wing on the Briar Hawks hockey team.
Logan is written as warm and easygoing on the surface while carrying a difficult family history and a quiet, unspoken crush on Hannah Wells throughout the first season. Cipriano has talked about how close he and Cameli got while preparing for the role, including a two-week hockey boot camp alongside co-stars Stephen Kalyn and Jalen Thomas Brooks to get the team’s physicality right. He has described the connection with Cameli as almost instant, helped along by their shared history from The Alto Knights.
Off Campus adapts a different book in Kennedy’s series each season, and Logan’s own romance with a character named Grace Ivers is the focus of The Mistake, the second novel. That sets Cipriano up for a much bigger role if the show continues, and given how the first season was received, that seems likely.
Balancing Both Careers
What makes Cipriano an interesting artist to follow right now is that he is not treating music as a side project while he waits for the next acting job. He has spoken about wanting to balance his acting work with what he calls his burgeoning career as a singer-songwriter, and tracks like Runaways suggest he is serious about it. He has also talked about wanting to help other artists find their own voice, which points to ambitions that go beyond just his own catalog.
The Verdict
Runaways is not trying to reinvent anything. It is a well-built, warm pop song about wanting to run off with someone you love, performed by two people who are actually doing exactly that in real life. That sincerity carries it further than the simplicity of the songwriting might suggest on its own. For an artist who has spent most of his career being known for his acting, Runaways is a strong, confident step toward being known for his music too.
Combine that with a major role on one of the biggest new shows of the year, and Antonio Cipriano looks like someone worth keeping an eye on in more ways than one.
Runaways is out now. Stream it on Spotify and Apple Music. Off Campus is streaming now on Prime Video.
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