A first-generation Caribbean-American, Alesia Etinoff is an LA-based writer/performer and Rideback RISE writing Fellow! She was a Story Editor on Season 2 of THE GAME Reboot on Paramount +; she wrote episode #206 “Oceans 828;” as a staff writer in Season 1, she wrote episode #108 “Snips, Clips & Chair Sits.” In 2022, Alesia sold and developed AVANT-GUARDIANS with Paramount+, CBS TV Studios and Trevor Noah's Day Zero Productions and Avalon as Executive Producers, based on her award-winning webseries; she was attached as creator, writer and star. Later that year, Alesia wrote and performed a comedy one woman show about purity culture, “Allie v. The Abstinence Pledge” to sold out crowds at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood. IThe short film that she wrote/starred in alongside Lamorne Morris (NEW GIRL), Sherri Shepherd (THE VIEW), and Marque Richardson (DEAR WHITE PEOPLE), 19 WEEKS, was featured in POPSUGAR and SHADOW & ACT; the film was executive produced by Zoe Saldana's company, Cinestar. Her 2017 web series AVANT-GUARDIANS won Best Short Form Dramedy at the prestigious New York Television Festival, was nominated for best web series at ABFF, and was an official selection for the ‘18 LA Film Festival and Downtown LA Film Festival. It received rave reviews from Essence Magazine, Bust Magazine, Decider and TubeFilter. Alesia first discovered her passion for TV/Film writing at the age of 17 in High School; she wrote a full-length movie, SCARRED, for a class that her best friend directed and Alesia starred; there was a red carpet premiere in the auditorium that led to her admittance into Carnegie Mellon University's school of Drama where she received a BFA in Dramaturgy in 2014.