Beth Reekles is the author of The Kissing Booth and the sequel, Going the Distance, now both Netflix films. She first published The Kissing Booth on Wattpad in 2010, at age 15, and it accumulated almost 20 million reads before it was published by in 2012 by Random House Children’s Books. Two more novels, Rolling Dice and Out of Tune, followed.
Alicia is perhaps best known to audiences as the vivacious and witty Kat on ABC’s hit teen series Dance Academy, which continued with feature film success in 2017’s Dance Academy: The Movie. More recent screen credits include the recurring role of Karlie in Screentime/Channel Ten’s Playing for Keeps Season 1 and a guest role in Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries. Previous credits include playing Chloe Lattanzi in Fremantle’s Olivia Newton John: Hopelessly Devoted to You and the 2017 feature We Were Tomorrow.