Christy Romano

 

               At 6 years old Christy was cast in several national tours of Broadway musicals, including Annie, The Will Rogers Follies, and The Sound of Music. At 12, she made her feature film debut in Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You.  She continued acting in independent films with famed directors Hal Hartley in Henry Fool and Martin Davidson in Looking for an Echo. Before heading West, Romano made her Broadway debut in the musical Parade by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown originating the role of Mary Phagan.

               Shortly after, Romano became the first person to act in three Disney Channel projects simultaneously. Supplementing her work on series Even Stevens, where she co-starred with Shia LaBeouf, she starred in Disney’s Cadet Kelly alongside Hilary Duff, and voice acted as the title animated character in Kim Possible. Romano’s voice was nominated for a Daytime Emmy and the show inspired an adventure ride at Disney’s Epcot, as well as two Disney Channel movies Kim Possible: So the Drama and Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time.  She was the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in the English version of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, as well as in the Disney/Square game Kingdom Hearts and has continued success as a voice over actor on shows like Family Guy and The Penguins of Madagascar and films like Casper’s Scare School and The Legends of Secret Pass. She has recently done scratch vocal work for Mila Kunis in To Hell and Back and is the voice of two Marvel characters in a highly anticipated video game. 

             Romano continued her relationship with Disney ABC Television Group by starring in movies for ABC Family like Campus Confidential, Taking Five, The Cutting Edge 2: Going for the Gold, and The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream. Various other TV appearances include MTV’s Kaya, NBC’S Joan of Arcadia, CW’s Summerland, and TNT’s HawthoRNe.

            On February 17, 2004, Romano began a 31-week run of playing Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway.  She left the production after raising ticket attendance from 30% to 99%.  Romano later returned to Broadway and starred in Avenue Q, in which she puppet-mastered ‘Kate Monster’ and ‘Lucy the Slut’.  She continues being involved in the theater community with an off-Broadway production of White’s Lies along-side Betty Buckley, and most recently the lead roles in industry readings of ‘Scary Musical’ and Martin Charnin’s ‘Robin Hood: The Final Adventure’.

            Romano penned a novel, Grace’s Turn, published by Hyperion, which received accolades by The New York Public Library as the 2007 Teenage Book of the Year.  She is currently in talks for a new young adult novel.

           Romano’s recently completed 3 feature films – Loosies (IFC), Mirrors II (20th Cent. FOX) and Infected (Universal) while continuing her BA at Columbia University with a double major in Film and Women’s Leadership.

          Romano has further branched off  in the industry and to date, has produced and directed two short films, and a music video, which has amassed almost 2 million views on YouTube and was selected in the 2012 Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival. She is in pre-production to direct her first feature in Indonesia in the Fall. Her INTERSTITIAL PRODUCTIONS is in pre-production for a dramatic family feature “My Father|My Son” in Massachusetts this July.

          At the GI Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2012, Christy received the ‘GI Spirit Award’ due to her work as a leading member of the Ambassadors of Hollywood Support Tour in Afghanistan and was offered a board member position.  She has since traveled to the Capitol and  presented Senator Chris Dodd  (MPAA) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT) as well as performed the National Anthem for the GIFF’s veteran filmmakers.

         Amongst being an ambassador for many charities and initiatives, Romano recently spoke at Old Dominion University and is available for speaking engagements nationally. 

 

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