ALUMNI SUCCESS STORIES
STUDENTS TAKE A BOW!
Featured Alumnis
KATRINA BALBUENA 22
Print Model, American Idol Billboard
Former San Diego Chargers Cheerleader
JENNIFER BOWEN (30)
National TV Commercial, T-Mobile
CHRIS BURROWS
News Anchor, WPIX TV, NYC
& KTLA TV, Los Angeles
SHOSHANA BUSH (21)
Lead in Feature Film, Dance Flick, The Fling
3 Film Contract, Paramount Films
ANDREW DOLINKO (22)
Johns Hopkins Univ. Graduate
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Major Bio Physics, Minor Theatre Arts
PRESTON HABU (22)
Nike & Sprint, TV Commercials
Independent Film, Golden Girls
Spike Lee Film, SUCKER FREE CITY, Toronto Film Festival
PHILIP ITNER (38)
Foreign Correspondent, CBS News
Graduate of SF State U.
JOELLE JACOBY (18)
Co-star, Sci-Fi Series, TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY. (STARZ & BBC)
LYNDSY KAIL (21)
UC Berkeley Graduate
San Fransisco Shakespeare Festival’s tour of Hamlet,
performing Ophelia/Horatio.
Film Role, All About Evil
TV Series, Trauma
RENEE MARTINEZ (20)
Disney Ch., Host of Behind the Ears
JOHN MORRIS (26)
Voice of Andy, Toy Story 1, 2, 3
Feature Film, Sex and the City
Film,The Upstate House, Sundance Film Festival
TV Commercial, General Motors
ADAM MCARTHUR (24)
National TV Commercials: Sprite, Nintendo, Six Flags,
Cingular Wireless, and McDonald’s
KYM MCNICHOLAS (25)
Star Reporter of the Year, Silicon Valley, 2009
News Reporter, Comcast Sports Net
Business News Anchor, KRON
Anchor, KFTY
KAILA O’NEILL (21)
Attending Universite de Paris la Sorbonne
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Pursuing a degree in Physics @ Pierre and Marie Curie
Institute
SHEA PARKER (21)
TV Commercial, Pizza Hut
Roles in DRAKE & JOSH on NICKELODEON
CBS Series, STILL STANDING
TV Soap, PASSIONS
DUSTIN PEARSON (20)
Theater Arts Major, attending Loyola Marymount Univ.
Voiceover Alta Bates Medical Center & Gottchalks Dept. Store
Print model, AT&T.
Role, TV series, Trauma.
CLAIRE PLUMB (22)
Voiceover, SONY
Graduate, Peabody Conservatory of Music
Johns Hopkins Univ., BA in Music, Classical Vocal Major
BIANCA SAMS
Staff Writer, Warner Brothers TV series, Training Days
Feature Film Role, Rent
BRIDGIT WALSH
TV Series, Army Wives
JUSTIN WHALIN (32)
Emmy Award, CBS Movie, Other Mothers
Lead, HBO Movie, Suzie Q
Jimmy Olsen, Lois & Clark’s, The New Adventures of Superman TV Series
REBECCA WHITE (34)
Homeland TV Series, starring Claire Danes, 2017
Lead Role, T.I.C Trenchcoat in Common, at Encore Theatre Co., San Francisco, 2009
Host, Herpertek, & First Cut, KRON TV
Stage, NYC, The Exonerated, Bleeker St. Theatre
More Alumni Success Stories
CASSIDY ABERSON (12)
LL Bean Cover Model,
Target National Print Model
JASMINE ACEVES (11)
Music Video, Jenro
Wayne Dyer Video: Tales of Everday Magic
SF State U, Graduate Film Playground Politics
KATYA BAKER LAVINE (17)
Model, Pottery Barn
TV Commercial, Nintendo
Film Role, Dreams on a String
JAMES BARTON (14)
TV Series Role, Parenthood
Background Role, Anjaana Anjaani (Bollywood film)
Role, TV Show, Worlds Most Astonishing News,
KEANU BEAUSIER (14)
SEGA Commercial On-Line
Stage Role, JOE TURNER’S COME & GONE, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
TV Commercial: Chabot Space & Science Center.
HAILEY CAPOVILLA (10)
National AT&T Print Model
ELLIOTT CARR (9)
Voiceover, Incredible Hulk Toy!
Film Role, Allie’s Sleep Over Club andit will begin shooting in May.
National Cable TV Commercial, Firefly
TV Commercials, Mervyns, Listerine, Walmart
SAMANTHA COLBERT (7)
Print Model, Mervyns, Pottery Barn
DAAN CREYGHTON (11)
Great America TV Commercial & Internet
Print Modeling for Peek
AUJENEE DOUGLAS (8)
Film, Santa’s Dog, Sponsored by Animal Planet
MTV Music Video, 18 Days
Independent Film, Every Other Week
MADDIE EISLER (11)
Film Roles: Milk starring Sean Penn
Four Christmases starring Reese Witherspoon
Harrison Montgomery starring Martin Landau
Commercials: Peter Piper Pizza; Extreme Pizza;
Voiceover: Clorox; Monterey Bay Aquarium; Pottery Barn
LONDON FREEMAN (11)
Film Roles, The Scene and All About Evil
TV Role, What About Brian, ABC Prime-Time
TV Commercial, McDonald’s
Lead Role, TBS Film, Valley of the Heart’s Delight
JERRILEE GEIST (14)
Japanese TV Series, The World’s Astonishing News
Print model, Cisco Systems
TV Commercial, Axe Body Spray
TORI GARCILLANO (7)
Dancing Credits: Performing w/ the Rockettes at the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, HP Pavilion, San Jose, 2010
Dancer, Holiday Spectacular Parade at Disneyland
Dance model, Cover of San Jose Mercury News & Palo Alto Daily News
MARIANNA GONZALES (6)
Print Model, Pottery Barn, Mervyns, Gymboree
National Print Model, Kids Kandoo Products
ALEXANDRIA HAMILTON (12)
TV Commercial, Intel
McDonalds Print Model, Champions of Play
Discovery Channel, WIVES STORIES
Kaiser Permanente Industrial Video & Commercial
MERCER HENDERSON (11)
Intel Model, website and billboards,
Public Service Announcement (PSA), Social Media, Economics of Walmart
PYPER HAYDEN (12)
Extra, Brad Pitt film, “Moneyball”.
Vocalist, Children’s CD w/ the Band The Raytones.
Lead Stage Role, Snow White in “Sleeping Beauty and the Beast”, San Carlos
Devyn Hocevar Smith (13)
TV Commercial, Dominican Hospital
Williams Sonoma Internet Promo
MASON HSIEH (18)
Film Roles, The Kite Runner, Bee Season, Peace on Earth
Independent Films, Superdude, Terminal Man, A Forgotten Innocence
Stage, High School Musical, Blue Moon Productions
Print Model, A T & T, Old Navy, Leapfrog Toys
OLIVIA HYTHA (14)
Discovery Channel: I Faked My Own Death.
National TV Commercials, Nissan, SEGA Power Monkey Ball, Chiquita Banana,
TV Series: Parenthood, Cresco Express
Industrial Film, American Express/Costco
Print Model, Walmart, AT&T, Mervyn’s, Verbaudet Clothing, Amy Byer Clothing
Stage: Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz & lead actor in Annie, Diablo Theater Co. Alameda Civic Light Opera, Scrooge, Town Hall Theater, Gypsy, Altarena Playhouse, Nuncrackers, Willows Theater, Bat Boy: The Musical, Altarena Playhouse, Annie Get Your Gun, Willows Theater, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Willows Theater, Miracle on 34th Street, Town Hall Theater, Sound of Music, Stage 1, The Music Man, Diablo Light Opera Co., Oliver! Pinole Players
RACHEL (17) & ERIKA (11) JACOBSEN
TV Commercial, Bank of America
DAKOTA JADE (8)
Film Role, Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
LEO JERGOVIC (6)
Voiceover, Toy Story 3
Actor, Educational Video: Department of Health: Immunization
LARA JOHNSTON (19)
MTV, Rock the Cradle
DEONTE JONES-MIMS (18)
National VO Commercial, Churches Chicken
DRAKE LEM (12)
NBC Series, Journeyman, Extra
Print Model, Pottery Barn, Nissan, Target
Extra, Film, Pursuit of Happiness, w/ Will Smith.
ELIZABETH LEVINSON (13)
Vocalist, OAKE National Honors Choir,
Chicago Symphony Hall
Stage, The Red Priest of Venice, Lamplighters Theatre
BRANDON LEVY (11)
Print Model, Wii Interactive Video Game
Kodak National TV Commercial
LOGAN LINK (14)
Sundance Film Festival, 2009, Independent Film Pencil Face,
Print Model, Macys, California Girl in Discovery Girls Magazine, Mervyn’s
TV Role, The World’s Astonishing News, Japanese TV Show
Independent Film Child of Apocalypse
EUGENE KO (18)
Attending UCLA Theater Major
Print Model: Vanguard Mutual Funds, “Day at the Beach”
TOMS Shoes Internet-Commercial
KEVIN MALTZ (15)
Co-host, Ch. 2, KTVU’s, Total Access for Kids
Sponsored by San Francisco 49’s. 100 youngsters auditioned for this role.
Chelsea Makela (19)
Film Role, Dance Flick, w/ the Wayans Bros,
Paramount Pictures Released in 2/09!
ISSEI MILLS (11)
Corning Glass Video Industrial & TV Commercial
EMILY MORRIS (17)
TV Commercial & Print Ad: UBISOFT
Stage Role, The Sound of Music
RILEY O’FLYNN (14)
National TV Commercial, Captain Crunch Cereal
Industrial Film, Cisco Systems
CONGRATULATIONS CHLOE PARMELEE (9)
Chloe’s credits include: Disney Channel’s, A Poem Is Galbani Cheese TV Commercial, stage role in Willy Wonka, Town Hall Theatre and a voiceover for Northside Hospital Cancer Institute. In 2013 she met an agent from Los Angeles in one of our workshops and went on to attend auditions in LA and SF.
ISABELLA PANASCI (11)
Print Model, Mervyn’s, Old Navy, Gap
Hewlett Packard TV Comm’l featuring Kung Fu Panda
LOGAN PETRIN (9)
TV Commercial Alameda County Fair
Movie Theatre Promo: Cancer Research
JUNIOUS POOLE (9)
Print Model, Mervyns
ANDY RAY (12)
Dodge TV Commercial
NIA RICHARDSON (10)
Role, Discovery Channel Series, “I ALMOST GOT AWAY WITH IT”
ANTHONY ROBINSON (13)
Film Role, Hercules Saves Christmas
Levi’s Print Model & Fit Modeling
Film Role, Hide and Seek, Academy of Art U.
This film was nominated for an Independent Film Festival in Washington, DC.
TV Series Extra: Trauma.
SAM RUBIN (17)
Role, The World’s Astonishing News (Japanese TV Series)
Lead Roles in Dido & Aeneus, San Francisco Opera Conservatory
Role in MacBeth, California Shakespeare Conservatory
Vocalist, “Live at The Apollo!” Contra Costa College
Body Double for the lead (Lenden Lemelle), Feature Film, “The Kiss,”
Film Roles, Lipstick, & The Bee, Mill Valley Film Festival
SAMANTHA SADOFF (11)
Infomercial, Kodak
CARE Award Winner/Universal Studios
Feature Film “Tropic Thunder”
TV Commercials, Toyota & McDonald’s
Print Model: Macy’s, Mervyns, Old Navy
Voiceover, S.F. Children’s Zoo
SARA SCANNEL (13)
Print Model, Mervyns and AT & T
Stage Role, Alice in Alice and Wonderland
Stage Role, Antigone, ACT
JOSEPH SCHIRLE (10)
National TV Commercial, Kellogs Cereal
Role, TV Series, Trauma
PAGE SCHORER (15)
Editorial Modeling for ModCloth & Many Belles Down
National Vintage inspired brands
SADIE SCOTT (8)
Lead Stage Role, Tiny Tim, A Christmas Carol, ACT.
CHARLIE SHIREMAN (8)
Voiceoverm LEAPFROG, The Scout
Little Tikes Toys: Voice of Alpha Pig
Radio commercials, Raleys and Monterey Bay Aquarium
Stage roles, TheatreWorks, Palo Alto: The Secret Garden.
and A Christmas Carol: San Jose Repertory
KAI SMITH (15)
Film, Pixar’s Wall-E,
New Feature Film The Prankster,
National TV Commercials: JC Penney, Target, Macys, Pizza Hut, Fisher Price,
Video Game: Dora the Explorer
Print Model: Gap, Levis, Ocean Pacific
TV Commercials: Nickelodeon, Excedrin, Walmart & Trix Yogurt
Sega Game: Shinning Force, PlayStation, Xbox, Rainy Woods,
Independent Films, Ed Meets His Maker, Fear of Flight,
SOREN SPADA (9)
Corning Glass Video Industrial & Commercial
Independent Film, Berkeley Digital Film School
AMELIA, NAKITA, & KASSANDRA SPRINGBORN (TRIPLETS) (5)
Educational Video: Teaching Adults about Autism
ELENA TILLMAN (9)
Print Model, VISA International, AIG Insurance, Varian Medical Systems
ALEXI TORRES (18)
Film Role, The Prankster
Role, The World’s Astonishing News (Japanese TV Series)
CARL WENDLING (7)
Print Model, Hewlett Packard, Applied Arts Magazine
independent Film Averice, IMBD Internet Movie
TV Commercials, Pepsi & Chevrolet, Monterey Hospital
Hawaiian Tropic Print Model Winner
ANGELINA WHALER (12)
Nickelodeon Animated Series, BLAZE and BAD SEEDS
Commercials for Burger King & Nintendo
Nickelodeon Pilot “Blaze” aka Turbocharge
Voiceover: Film “Red Lights”
Stage role, Theatreworks, “The Secret Garden”
Nomination SFBATCC (SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award: “best musical principal – female”
1st place, Award: NATS (SFBA) Singing Festival 2012 (national association of teachers of singing)
PHILIP WONG (16)
Voiceover, Film, THE INCREDIBLES
PBS Documentary Film, Peace on Earth
TARO YAMAMOTO (10)
Voiceovers: Play School Toys & Monterey Bay Aquarium
Print Model, Venus Bridal
KERINA YAO (14)
Print Model, P&G Brandsaver Health & Beauty
JADA ZIMMERMAN (5)
Disney Video Promo, Toddler Einstein
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