Staff
The Reel It Up team handles all aspects of production. Our artists are respectful, approachable, and quick on their feet. And maybe just a teensy bit goofy.
You will be matched with an actor from our immediate roster or professional talent from our extended network. Materials are here for your review should you prefer a specific scene partner.
Reel It Up Studios is associated with ScrewUp TV as a part of Red Handed LLC.
PJ Barnes
Director, Actor, Writer
New York born actor PJ Barnes started performing early in his life, putting on shows for his family. He eventually stumbled into the wonderful world of Theatre in middle school and took to the stage. Always driven by his obsessive creativity, PJ is noted for writing most of the material he appears in. A huge fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and comic books, PJ was determined to stretch the borders of reality in his work, putting his characters in incredible situations.
When PJ was in high school, he choreographed his first ever dance number for their spring musical Footloose. Since then, PJ has explored the stage via acting and dancing, and has enjoyed doing both in order to express himself in front of a live audience. Around his senior year of college, he and his friend, Keith Welborn, founded the company "ScrewUp TV," which started as a sketch comedy series and quickly evolved into something much greater.
In the summer of 2011, PJ wrote, directed, and produced his first ever feature film, The Screw. It served as his starting point to being taken seriously in the film world. Later that year, he wrote and directed his very first short film, Tree Frogs. He has since written, directed, produced, and starred in dozens of projects for the screen and stage.
Barnes has 7+ years of experience as an acting coach for Acting Out Studios and choreographer. He has studied with Vincent D'Onofrio.
PJ is represented by Carolina Talent Agency.
Aaron Kasey
Cinematographer
Natascha Shipp
Actress, Producer, Writer
Natascha Shipp is known for All We Got, Ogden, Recovery, and Message. She is an actress, writer, and producer. She performs live sketch comedy and improv with ScrewUp TV and Mom's Adhesive and is represented by Evolution Talent Agency.
Melanie Lech
Actress, Writer, Crew, Web Manager
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Melanie Lech is an actress, writer, voiceover artist, and sketch comedian from North Carolina known for her videos on the Rizzle app (@meanbeancomedy & @wafflechick). She makes music as singer/songwriter Copperhead Curls and sketch comedy videos with Mean Bean Comedy and ScrewUp TV.
Melanie is signed with Carolina Talent Agency and has been in various short films, features, and web series. She has done comedic principal commercial work for Kenmore Appliances and Killingsworth Pest Control.
Her voiceover work for His House and The Others has established her presence as a dramatic voice in horror and sci-fi.
She offers photography, event videography, plus other odds and ends as Melanie Lech Multimedia.
One fun fact about Melanie is that when she was a kid, she thought she threw up one of her lungs, but it was just a fruit roll-up.
John Bonds
Actor, Writer, Coordinator
My name is John Bonds and I've been acting professionally in the Southeast since 2016. I was born in a suburb of Atlanta, GA and after receiving my Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education and teaching fourth grade for 3 years, I recognized my love outside of the classroom. I had always loved theatre and movies, and never thought I had an opportunity to be a part of that life until I took my first acting class in 2016 and fell in love. I began acting, writing, producing, and whatever else I could to get onto a film set to learn and grow my passion.
My wife and I moved to Charlotte in 2019 where I continued to grow and collaborate breathing Sketch Comedy, Short Films, and joining an incredible improv group, Mom's Adhesive. My passions will lead me to one day have a starring role in a comedic sitcom, as well as several timeless movies.
Aleshia Price
Actress
Aleshia Price is best known for her roles in All We Got (Kristin Baker) and The Love App (Rachel Shaw). She is an actress who seeks out intriguing and diverse roles in film, television, and theatre. Aleshia is a graduate of Wake Forest University, where she received her Bachelor Arts degree in Theatre and Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise. After earning her degree, she moved to Chicago, Illinois and secured a casting internship at Goodman Theatre. In addition to her degree, Aleshia has trained with Vincent D'Onofrio, Meredith Monk, and Kyle Haden.
Continuously tapping into her true passion, Aleshia has recently starred in feature films (All We Got and The Love App). She has also starred in limited series (Ogden and Super Sheroes), short films (At What Cost and The Burden), and web series (Angela Day and Sketch).
Alex Bradford Cobb
Actor, Sound
Alex Bradford Cobb was born on Winter Solstice, and he invented the Charleston AND the Charleston Chew.
The first flick he directed was a paper football towards a finger field goal, but the first movie he made was a cringey 6th grade science weather project. He was a lone wolf because no one wanted to work with him on it.
Since then, he's written, shot, and directed countless 6th grade science weather projects, and has carved out a niche in the 6th grade science weather project "biz," but he's also started dabbling in 7th grade science weather projects as well.
Essynce Victoria
Social Media Manager
Essynce Victoria is a singer, actress, and dancer known for Fatal Attraction (2013), The Trees (2022) and Ourselves (2023). She crochets as Essential Crochets and performs with her family as Minter Girls Fourever. Mark 11:24.
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