ALICIA ARINELLA (Co-Creator, Producer and Director): For the past eight years, Alicia Arinella has worked in various aspects of Film and Theatrical production. Her credits include: stage management for regional and New York Theater, publicity and promotional work for Fine Line Features and New Line Cinema, editing and production coordinating for terraNOVA Collective, Asset Pictures and cineBlast!, associate producing for Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Noggin and Granada Kids, and producing projects for Little Airplane Productions, Playhouse Disney, New York Stage and Film, terraNOVA Collective, Our Time Theatre Company and the Naked Angels Theater Company. Alicia founded On the Leesh Productions in 1999 with her documentary, Interval. With On the Leesh, Alicia has been happy to produce the first work for many new writers including: Justin Spitzer of NBC’s The Office, Jenna Bans of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, Private Practice and Grey’s Anatomy and producing the directorial debuts of acclaimed New York theater writers and directors: Lucie Tiberghien, Michael Mastro and Sex and the City writer, Liz Tuccillo. Alicia is a frequent guest lecturer at The New School and has served on various entertainment panels. Alicia has produced eight short films screening at over 30 film festivals worldwide including: Cannes, Sarasota, Atlanta, Nantucket, Durango Independent, and San Francisco Independent. Awards: The Muse: A Girl’s Delicious Daydream About a Dangerous Man – 2nd place Short Film Experimental, 2006 Indie Gathering. With OTL, Alicia has also produced a number of theater projects including: the Naked Angels Issues Project: Democracy, Help Me Help Myself, Our Time Theatre Company’s 3rd Annual Benefit, SIN: A New Fashioned Spectacle of Legendary Vice, and most recently, Masquerade: calypso and home with terraNOVA Collective. Alicia is the editor of Table for Three, Denim, The Things We Know, For Belly and the hit web-series The In-Betweens of Holly Malone, In the Can and The Sexually. As a director, Alicia worked on the short film, Table for Three, a number of episodes of the popular web-series, The In-Betweens of Holly Malone, as well as the entire first and second seasons of In the Can and the first season of The Sexually. For the stage, Alicia has directed the one-woman show, Belly and has most recently produced and co-directed the feature film, For Belly, with Matt Rashid.
JEFF LYCETT (Juice, Co-Creator, Writer): Writer/Director Jeff Lycett is a Michigan born filmmaker, living in New York City. He has written six screenplays, including the award winning Planet 7. His directorial debut, "Denim," explores the humors and indignities of the modern dating scene. Jeff is inspired by and implements the cinematic comic timing he learned while working for Woody Allen. Lycett is the co-creator and writer/director of the web comedy, The Sexually.
PJ DeBOY (Johnnie): PJ most notably appeared in John Cameron Mitchell’s film, “Shortbus”. He’s also appeared in Showtime’s “Queer As Folk” as well as On the Leesh Productions’ other webseries, “The In-Betweens of Holly Malone”. DeBoy's sport-comedy show "Locker Room" can currently be seen on HERETV.
RICKY HARDS (Julian): Ricky hails from London, England. He’s been in 3 Bollywood blockbusters and is now an international voiceover artist with clients that include: BBC America, Gillette and National Geographic.
MATT RASHID (Dylan): New York Theatre: A Yorkshire Faire Tale (dir. Nancy Robillard), The Fear Project (Naked Angels, dir. Rob Morrow), The Naked Angels Lab (Premiere), The Democracy Project (Naked Angels, dir. Pippin Parker), Sin: An Old Fashioned Spectacle of Legendary Vice (On the Leesh Productions), Syria, America (Emerging Artists Theatre). New York Stage & Film: Break: Surviving the Recovery (On the Leesh Productions & Naked Angels, w/ Tony award winner Frank Wood). New York Stand-up Comedy: Caroline’s Comedy Club, Gotham Comedy Club, Don’t Tell Mama’s, Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Film & Television Credits include: “Law & Order” (NBC), “Mad About You” (NBC), “Table for Three” (On the Leesh Productions), “Soap Scum” (On the Leesh Productions), “Someone to Love” (Oracle Pictures). Matt has appeared and directed several episodes of the On the Leesh Web series: “The In-Betweens of Holly Malone”, “In the Can”, “The Sexually” all available at www.blip.tv and www.koldcast.tv. Matt co-directed On the Leesh’s first feature film “For Belly” with Alicia. MFA, Actor’s Studio Drama Program, The New School.
*All episodes are styled by Dani McIntyre.
JESSICA ARINELLA (Evelyn): has been acting in NYC since graduating with an award for excellence in theatre from Northwestern University. In NYC, Jessica has worked with the Naked Angels on numerous productions, notably in Tape directed by Geoffrey Nauffts, and Democracy costarring with indie legend Mark Margolis. With On the Leesh, Jessica worked at NY Stage and Film, costarring in Break opposite Tony Award Winner Frank Wood, Tom Digg’s award winning, A Yorkshire Fairie Tale, and starred in On the Leesh’s first film, What are the Odds? which was a Selection of the 2006 Cannes Short Film Market. She also played the role of Lucy in On the Leesh’s first feature film: For Belly. Other Film credits include, The Pink House with Heather Matarazzo and Fred Weller, and Cupidity, directed by John Gallagher which won the NY Independent Film Festival. She has appeared on the TV shows, Law and Order, Love Monkey Six Degrees and Rescue Me. Jessica created and founded the Naked Angels Lab, producing and starring in their Premier, The Opposite of Fear, as well as joint On the Leesh/Naked Angels Lab production, SIN. Jessica is currently playing the title character in the On the Leesh web-series, The In Betweens of Holly Malone as well as Sally in In the Can,and Evelyn in The Sexually.
JULIE TORTORICI (as Jane): Julie has been working as an actor and writer in New York for a number of years. She is a graduate of Atlantic Theater’s Professional Conservatory and has also participated in their teacher-training program. Theater credits include: Balm in Gilead, Museum, Every Dog, Help Me Help Myself and The Phantom Tollbooth. Julie has also written and performed her one-woman show Belly throughout NYC (it also appeared in the NYC Fringe Festival in 2003). Her play, Committed and her short film, Table for Three were both produced by On the Leesh in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Along with The In-Betweens of Holly Malone, Julie has also been seen in I’m Sorry Melissa and has a recurring role in In the Can (which she is also a writer for) and Jeff Lycett’s, The Sexually. Film: Julie has done a number of NYU and Columbia film shorts as well as appearing in Table For Three and the feature film, For Belly (which was based on her one-woman show). Most recently, Julie has started preproduction for her short comedy Milestone (which she will also direct) and is in production on the documentary, Best Laid Plans, which brought her to Ghana as a participant in a volunteer vacation. As a writer, Julie is working on her first novel and her full-length screenplays Waltzing Emily (finalist in the Script PIMP and ScriptShark Screenplay Contests) and This Call May Be Monitored.