Alesia Etinoff
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Actress
A first-generation Caribbean-American, Alesia Etinoff is an LA-based television writer from Maryland. Alesia 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 web series; she was attached as creator, writer and star. In May of 2022, 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. The short film that she wrote/starred in alongside Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Sherri Shepherd (Sherri Shepherd Show), and Marque Richardson (Unprisoned), 19 Weeks, was featured in PopSugar and Shadow & Act. 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 was a UCB Diversity Scholar and received a BFA in Dramaturgy from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in 2014.