Katie Contini - "Jordina"
music/writer
special thanks!
Aline Bernstein - "Sheila" - Mother Leeds
- "Paul"
JerSHEy Devil was inpsired by the legendary Jersey Devil (Leed's Devil) that's been roaming the New Jersey Pine Barrens & beyond since before the 1900's.
Katie Contini is an actor, model, writer, and dental hygienist. She has lived in places all over the world including California, Texas, Hawaii and Cambodia. Her passion for adventure continues as she pursues her love of acting and all things creative in NYC. She studied at The Barrow Group, HB Studio and the Deena Levy Theatre Studio in New York, and The School of Acting for the Screen in Brisbane, Australia.
Aline Bernstein is a native of Brooklyn, NY and has been a theatre enthusiast for over 50 years. Since moving to New Jersey ten years ago, she has acted with the Little Egg Theatre Co. in productions of "You Can't Take It With You," "Harvey," "Twelve Angry Jurors," "Leading Ladies," "The Man Who Came To Dinner," and "Calendar Girls."
South Jersey native and grandfather of ten Paul Evans Pedersen, Jr. is a singer/songwriter, screenwriter, author, and glass jewelry artisan who lives in Malaga (Franklin Twp., Gloucester County) with his wife, Cookie. Nominated for 4 Grammys in 2008, and seven more in 2009, Pedersen's recent CDs include "Endlessly", "Agua Noir", "Manhattan Grits", and, most recently (2014), "Lines On The Pines", a cd of 13 songs that is entirely about the Pine Barrens of South Jersey. Many of the over 1200 songs composed by Pedersen have charted nationally and internationally and have been featured in three films: "Breathless", “You, Me, And Him”, and "The Demented", and on FXX's TV series "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia". Paul and his song "The Pine Barrens Blues" were featured on the hit CNN series, "Anthony Bourdain-Parts Unknown" in May 2015, and several other “reality TV series” programs. Paul and his song “In The Pine Barrens Night” were featured in the hit YouTube show “Sam & Colby” in the “Haunted Forest-Pine Barrens” episode that generated well over 7,000,000 views in 2021.
He is the author of two published books. "Required Restroom Readings", a self-published collection of short stories and Haiku, was published in 2009. His most recent book, "The Legendary Pine Barrens-New Tales From Old Haunts", was published in 2013 by Plexus Publishing of Medford, NJ.
Pedersen was a reporter/photographer/columnist for The Weekly Retrospect, The Hammonton Gazette, and the Vineland Daily Journal.
Pedersen's line of custom-made jewelry, known as "Pine Barrens Diamonds", is available at some 15 retail shops throughout south and central Jersey. The jewelry is fashioned from discarded glass chunks Pedersen unearths at the ruins of several old glassworks (circa 18th & 19th century) sites in the Pine Barrens.
Paul is currently working on his third book, and several other projects.
