INTO THE WILD.
Animals & Co. is a creative production studio based in New Orleans. We conceptualize, make, distribute, and monetize beautiful work across—and beyond—mediums.
We create everything—documentaries, podcasts, books, TV series, brand identities, websites, even hospitality ventures. Animals & Co. was born of a desire to transcend any one format and build a world that you want to inhabit from social media accounts to restaurants.
Animals & Co. teams up with networks, brands, talent, media, and entrepreneurs to conceptualize outside-the-box work—and get that work made and seen. We seek out ambitious ideas and partners that are committed to beauty, complexity, and depth. Our modus operandi is to create connections between the work we’re making and the audiences that crave it.
We have directed, produced, and created content for HBO, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Facebook, Nat Geo, Discovery, History, A&E Networks, Vice, Time, Inc., the NBA and G League, Lyft, Rakuten, Weedmaps, Zitti, Diageo, Bacardi, Constellation Brands, Pernod Ricard, Estée Lauder, Penguin- Random House, the U.S. Cannabis Council, and more. We direct marketing for PDQ and have built brands for St. Pizza, Patron Saint, Streetlight Taco, the forthcoming Blundy Bagel Co. & more.
THE TEAM.
Creative Director Tony Biancosino has over 18 years of experience in television creation and production. He's the former Executive Vice President of Stephen David Entertainment and Senior Vice President of Truly Original, both Banijay companies. He’s worked with talent across formats, including Carmelo Anthony, Michael Beasely, Kevin Hart, Killer Mike, Tobe Nwigwe, Issa, Rae, Leah Remini, and Eric Thomas.
Writer and producer Leslie Pariseau has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, The Ringer, The Intercept, Oxford American, and Condé Nast Traveler. She is co-founder of PUNCH, created with Penguin-Random House and acquired by Vox in 2021. Leslie has an MFA in fiction, ghostwrites books, including a New York Times Bestseller and is a three-time James Beard Award nominee.
Together, Tony and Leslie built and own Patron Saint, a wine shop +bar, and St. Pizza, a New York Times 22 Best pizzeria + tavern, in the Lower Garden District.
