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At 10, she followed in her ballet dancer mother's footsteps by appearing with The Washington Ballet Company in The Nutcracker Suite.
In college, she took a couple of theater courses as well as attending The Tampa Academy of Performing Arts to study commercial acting and improvisation. She also took numerous workshops with casting directors and acting coaches.
Oddly, Kathy never really intended to get into acting. Her dream was to write and produce prime-time television series. She entered college as a Cinematography major, but when the university cancelled that program, Kathy decided to try to get into the business in any way she could - which she did first by working at a local TV station and, second, by taking on-camera roles (hoping to work her way behind the camera at some point). After a while she decided she enjoyed acting, and perhaps more importantly, she just enjoyed being on a set.
Her first roles were as an extra in films and bit parts in commercials. Her most notable role was as one of the neighborhood hair ladies in Edward Scissorhands. She has since appeared in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Burn Notice, Ballers, and Barely Famous. In “real life” she worked in television programming for over 20 years before changing careers to teaching. She is currently a university administrator and college professor whose area of research is participatory fandom. She has an M.A. in Mass Communication and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
Reviews
Infection (2005)
This makes my uncle's family videos look really good
Okay, first I should say that I assume this was just made by a group of friends with a limited budget. With that in mind, it really shouldn't be compared to blockbuster features and my rating would be higher. But still...
After giving it a chance, it still violated some basic film-making rules to such an extent that both the viewer and the amateur director in me cringed. A LOT.
Think: Blair Witch in a car but REALLY boring.
Think: You left your camcorder on the dashboard and recorded yourself getting lost in the park at night for an hour, then making your friends watch it.
The scariest part (POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT... IF SPOILING HERE IS POSSIBLE) was at one point the picture rewinds and you might think you will have to watch it all over again. SCARY.
Silliness aside, this is a pretty good idea for a low-budget lets-go-make-a-movie-tonight film. But the concept walks a fine line between being really good and really bad, and let's just say it wasn't really good. There were just too many parts where nothing happened. At first I thought that was the director's plan -- you were supposed to be lulled into a sense of security and then really scary things would start happening. But...no.
I kept trying to find good things to say about it (and I had plenty of time to think), and I'll say the music was kinda cool. And I have to give the female lead credit for standing around by herself looking scared for a really, really long time. But that's it. The actors playing "infected" people looked as if they were making fun of zombie movies. Or they got their motivation from the Bug wearing his Edgar suit from "MIB." Chances are, if for some strange reason you're going to watch this movie, it's on DVD or Tivo, so you can fast forward it whenever waiting for something to happen gets too difficult.
I hate to be so critical of something, but at the same time I've watched a lot of similar movies and nothing has ever been this painful. If they just chopped a half an hour out of it and added some scary stuff, it might be decent. Maybe that'll be the director's cut...