Phil Ridarelli is a voice actor, general actor, comedian, stage performer, singer, and stage writer, best known for voicing Josh "Schmitty" Schmitstinstein, among other things.
He is Jellyvision's head mentor and frequent YDKJ host, was born and bred in Chicago. He "got out" of the theater school at DePaul in 1987 with a degree in acting. He was once in a made-for-TV movie with Scott Bakula. He's worked at a lot of theaters around town, as well as at a few regional theaters. Most of his time has been with the Neo-Futurists performing Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. He got married three days before he started working at Jellyvision in May '96.
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- He, Andy Poland & Harry Gottlieb, all have interviews archived on the wayback machine, you can read Phil's interview here.
- If you're curious about other aspects of Phil's career as an actor, check out his BlogSpot interview as part of The Neo-Futurists here.