Katie has always had a knack for making people smile. The Hollywood Group’s core classes and her ongoing training with Sterling Studio have added poise, confidence, and an outgoing and positive outlook, not only in her acting, but also in her everyday life. Katie’s acting experiences have encouraged her creativity. She writes plays for her friends and family to perform. She also writes her own scripts for the Hollywood Group showcases, impressing several agents who have expressed an interest, with top marks for her acting technique, appearance, attitude and believability. With every showcase, Katie has learned something new, and is improving everyday. We’re confident she’ll be signing with an agent in the near future.
The classes the Hollywood Group referred us to have given her the foundation she needs to continue to grow as an actor. Katie particularly enjoyed the Sterling Studio Actors Acting Camp. At the camp, the actors participate in special classes with guest teachers (sitcom acting, hiphop dancing, etc.) and learn all about filmmaking. Every actor at the camp gets a part in a short film that Constance Tillotson wrote. Katie had a great time partaking of the film Karma and playing the character Dareios in Summer 2008. Constance was impressed that the group of actors in her scene, they got it in one take!
Katie has been a judge (along with 30 other children) on two episodes of Beat the Boss, a BBC TV show. She has been picture-picked for auditions including a role in the TV show Southland and as stand-in for a principal actor. She has auditioned for short films and theater (How the Grinch Stole Christmas.) She had recently done background work for a commercial (the ProtectmyID.com school bus commercial) and the hit sitcom The Office.
In The Office, Katie was in a restaurant scene next to the lead table (with Steve Carrel, Rainn Wilson and guest star Mike Starr). She was on camera for almost the entire restaurant shoot. As a background actor, she had a pretend family and pretended to talk, eat, drink and had a great time. At the end of the day, we sat next to Mr. Starr in the shuttle back to our cars. I was carrying Katie’s wardrobe (hangers and all) and accidentally bumped into him; I was mortified, but Mr. Starr was very gracious and helped us with our things when we reached the parking lot. I told him that I loved him in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” and he said, “Good, now we can be friends!” Before we left, he told Katie what a nice girl she is. Katie makes new friends on all of her jobs and is looking forward to many more, thanks to the Hollywood Group!
Stacy Lewis (Mom)
