ADVISORY/Rising Pop Star Katie Neil Returns to Northern Virginia to Debut her First CD, 'How I Feel'.Entertainment Editors/News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Friday (Nov. 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Rising Pop Star, Katie Neil Katie Neil (born in 1989) is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and former actress. Biography Early career At the age of 8, Katie began working in Broadway and singing and acting in many shows. , is returning to Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. this Friday, November 21st, to perform songs from her first CD "How I Feel" at 2:00pm, at The Langley School Langley School can refer to:
Katie, now 14, was a student at The Langley School when she announced to her first-grade classmates Classmates can refer to either:
New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Her acting and musical roots started in the Washington area. At age 6, Katie started auditioning for roles. By the time she turned 8 she had made her professional debut at the Kennedy Center with the Royal Shakespeare Company Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), a British repertory theater. The company, established in 1960, was based on the earlier Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. It is a national theater supported by government funds. in Hamlet. The rest, they say, is history. Katie now has her sites on conquering the pop music world. Her CD "How I Feel" will soon be available on her website, www.katieneil.com. Katie's talents are not only found in singing, dancing and acting, she has also written 6 out of the 11 songs on her debut CD. Each song tells a story based on Katie's life, experiences and friendships. Watch out Hillary Duff and Britney Spears... Northern Virginia's own Katie Neil is hot on their tracks! To attend her concert at The Langley School, please contact Dawn Hopke at 703-356-1920. For more information on Katie or to schedule an interview, please contact Terre Hall at 703-973-0519 or Neil Kahanovitz at 917-224-5298. To learn more about Katie Neil, please visit her website at www.katieneil.com Katie Neil biography follows: KATIE NEIL On the wall next to Katie's bed is framed an entry from her first grade diary. She promised her classmates she would make her Broadway debut by her tenth birthday. Katie would have kept that promise, but that year her tenth birthday happened to be on a Monday. And Broadway shows are dark on Mondays. On Tuesday, one day after her tenth birthday, Kate took over the role of Jessie Oakley opposite Bernadette Peters in the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Katie Neil, age 14, did not begin her show business career like most children. She made her acting debut at the age of eight with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Hamlet at the Kennedy Center in her hometown of Washington, DC. Next she appeared in the Washington Opera's Boris Godunov (Placido Domingo, Artistic Director) followed by the Nutcracker with the Stanislavksi Ballet, both at the Kennedy Center. Her musical theater credits began with an ensemble role in the Ocean City, New Jersey Pops rendition of Fiddler on the Roof. The lead in a new, experimental musical, Winnow See chaff and winnow. Winds, in Martinsburg, W.V. was next. Midway through the third grade, family friends Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls, Tap Dance Kid, Sideshow See Windows SideShow. ) and Bill Russell (Sideshow, Elegies
Elegies (エレジーズ , Pageant) urged Kate to seek out an agent in New York City. At the end of that year, Katie and her family moved to New York City. Within two months Katie landed a role in her first Broadway show. While performing on Broadway, Katie appeared in a number of other theatrical events working with such show business veterans as Eartha Kitt, Bebe Neuwirth, Sandy Duncan, Polly Bergen and Rita Moreno. She was also featured on the Broadway Kids recording of America Sings. After sixth grade graduation from New York's Professional Children's School Professional Children's School is an independent day school enrolling 210 students in grades 6-12. Located in Manhattan, a few blocks from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the school provides a college-preparatory education to young people preparing for, or already pursuing, , Katie made her pop music debut, Katie K. Beyond Broadway, at one of New York's best-known cabarets, Don't Tell Mama Don't Tell Mama is a piano bar and cabaret located at 343 West 46th Street (Restaurant Row) in New York City. It is award winning and featured in the Friends TV show. Piano Bar features live piano music every night with performances from the bar staff and singers. . In September 2002, Katie moved to Villanova, PA. with her dad and step mom, Suzanne. In November 2002 she made her Philadelphia stage debut as Mary Lennox, the lead, in the musical The Secret Garden at the Media Theater. Just before Christmas 2002, a family friend sent a recording of a few songs Katie had recorded the year before in New York City to veteran songwriter and producer Cliff Downs. Cliff invited Katie to visit his studio in Franklin, Tennessee in January 2003. Four months and eleven songs later, Katie's first solo pop CD, How I Feel, was completed. Of the eleven songs recorded, six were written by the new songwriting team of Cliff Downs and Katie Neil. Each song tells a story based on Katie's life, experiences and friendships. At the age of thirteen Katie founded her own publishing company, Katie Neil Publishing. Katie is now trying to juggle being an eighth grader and hitting the road with her new band performing songs from How I Feel. Check out the music and watch for her near you. |
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