Cast of Prom Queen

[milowent]

This thread is for information on the cast of prom queen

cast confirmed 3/28:


The Babes:

Lauren Holland - played by Haley Mancini (leftmost in pic below)
"Lauren's" Myspace: www.myspace.com/sexylalalauren
Haley's Myspace (private): www.myspace.com/haleymancini
on imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm2268818/

Sadie Simmons - played by Katy Stoll (2nd in cast pic below)
"Sadie's" Myspace: www.myspace.com/sadiesimmons
Katy's myspace (private): www.myspace.com/katystoll
Actorspages: www.actorspages.org/KatyStoll/
Katy is a 22-year old graduate of UC-San Diego.

Nikki Wagner - (center in pic below) played by Alexandra French (confirmed)
"Nicky's" myspace: www.myspace.com/nikkiwagner
Alexandra French myspace (private): profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7640317
on imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm2250955/

Danica Ashby - played by Laura Howard - (fourth from the left)
"Danica's" Myspace: profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=145562911

Courtney Wood- played by Sheila Vand (far right in below pic)
"Courtney's" Myspace: profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=145541467

Michele Evans- played by Kateland Carr (not in this cast pic, but apparently still a fairly significant role)
"Michelle's" myspace: www.myspace.com/michelebelle89
Kateland's myspace: www.myspace.com/lindsey_kateland

Jill Holland - played by A.K. Raymond
"Jill's" myspace: www.myspace.com/172728143
A.K. on imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm2584104/

The Dudes:

Chad Moore - played by David Loren
"Chad's" myspace: www.myspace.com/radchadmoore
David's myspace (private): www.myspace.com/lorenlewis
on imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm2111771/

Ben Simmons (sadie's brother) played by Sean Hankinson. Likely has love interest in Courtney.
"Ben's" myspace: www.myspace.com/bensimmons4prez
Sean's myspace: www.myspace.com/hankipanki
On imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm1971499/

Brett Barnett - played by Andre Boyer
"Brett's" myspace: www.myspace.com/ballinbrettbarnett
Andre's myspace (private): www.myspace.com/andreboyerii
on imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm1894575/
(previous credits include role as "Jerky Dude" on an ep of Veronica Mars)

Nolan White - played by John Shires
"Nolan's" myspace: www.myspace.com/thepillionaire

Josh Becker - played by Jake Schidler
"Josh's" myspace: www.myspace.com/gambitodelrey
Jake's myspace (private):
www.myspace.com/jakesmyspacebitch

Curtis LaRue - played by Mills Allison
"Curtis'" myspace: www.myspace.com/defconcurtis
Mills on imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm1794240/

Coach Zumwalt - played by David Storrs.
"Float" - short starring David: www.atomfilms.com/film/float_brief.jsp


Lauren / Sadie/ Nikki / Danica / Courtney

[milowent]

Article about Kateland Carr, cast as Michele:

www.shelbycountyreporter.com/articles/2007/03/21/lifestyles/life01.txt

Shelby County High grad makes Hollywood debut

By MICHAEL McCLENDON / Staff Writer
(Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:18 AM CDT)

A Columbiana native might have found her big break in Hollywood, all while taking part in a new media movement.

Things like YouTube and blogs, once thought of as just fads, are now attracting some big names.

Michael Eisner, former head of Disney, is launching Vuguru, an independent studio to produce and distribute original programming for the web, according to the New York Times.

Vuguro’s first major project is an 80-part series called “Prom Queen.” Featured in a recurring role will be Shelby County graduate Lindsey Kateland Carr.

“I’ve been really, really lucky,” said Carr, 20, known to publicly as Kateland Carr.

Carr is playing Michele, a popular high school girl who is close friends with lead character, Nicky.

The series debuts in early April. Each episode is ninety seconds in length, but despite the short time it is sure to “hook you in,” said Carr.

Carr moved to Hollywood in June of 2004, just two weeks after graduation.

During high school, she participated in the drama program and her passion for the arts grew so much, that by her junior year she dropped most other activities to focus on acting.

Her first major break came after a chance encounter on an airplane during a family vacation. While flying to Las Vegas, Carr met the relative of talent agent Jan Luker.

Phone calls were made and a few months later she traveled to Hollywood to audition. Some would-be stars spend years in ‘Tinsle Town’ just trying to get an agent, much less worrying about a gig. But before Carr even left the heartland she had an agent and a big step up on the competition.

She has appeared in a few commercials and was a featured extra in the Bad News Bears, staring Billy Bob Thornton.

Carr currently lives just outside of Burbank.

“I’ve been out here three years and moved like seven times,” she said.

According to Carr, missing family and the constant turn-around of an actor’s career are the scariest part about her experience.

“It is unsettling, there is no sense of stability,” said Carr. “You really have to want it (and) work at it everyday.”

Despite the hardships, Carr said she enjoys her work and has high hopes for the project’s success.

[milowent]

Another article about Kateland Carr, this one makes it sound like she is the "sixth" member of a cast originally intended to be five. She debuts in the April 6 episode.

www.al.com/entertainment/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1174810998217900.xml&coll=2

Hollywood calls while mom frets
Sunday, March 25, 2007NANCY WILSTACH

A 2004 graduate of Shelby County High School is one of the featured actresses in a Michael Eisner brainchild that is billed as the Internet's first murder mystery soap opera, "Prom Queen."

Kateland Carr, who dropped her first name, Lindsey, at her agent's suggestion, has known what she wanted in life since the third grade.

"I just always have known that this is what I wanted to do," Carr said in a telephone interview from Hollywood.


She sees the "Prom Queen" role as what could be her big break.

Carr describes her character, Michelle, as "pretty much a typical popular girl. She is best friends with the lead character and all involved in the parties and the drama of the prom."

If she had known Michelle at her own high school, would they have hung out together? "Probably, but we would not have been best friends. I went to the prom and all, but I was not all wrapped up in it," Carr said. "I had my plans and was looking ahead."

Almost before the ink was dry on her diploma, "I had all my stuff in my car and was driving west on Interstate 40," Carr said.

Fate already had smiled on her. The youngster, whose acting credits had been limited to SCHS stage productions, knew she already had that all-important contact in Hollywood, a talent agent.

A few months earlier on a trip with her family, airline karma plunked Carr into a seat between two complete strangers - one of whom turned out to be first cousin to Hollywood agent Jenna Luker. Impressed with his seatmate, he set up a meet.

Luker now is Carr's agent. Kateland Carr was on screen for a few seconds of "The Bad News Bears" with Billy Bob Thornton, and she had a more substantial role in an indie film "Under the Gaydar."

And the girl did a couple of commercials before catching Eisner's eye to become part of one of the new media's biggest showbiz buzzes. According to the buzz on the "PQ" set, a script that had cast five girls in featured roles made room for a sixth after Eisner saw Carr's picture.

Eisner, the former Disney CEO, is launching "Prom Queen" as a short-form serialized online soap opera with the launch of Vuguru, his new production studio built to create content for various digital platforms. Vuguru's goal is to be the leader in producing high-quality, story-driven content for the Internet that up until now could only be found in movie theaters or on television, according to the online EContent magazine.

"Prom Queen" kicks off April 2 on PromQueen.tv, although Kateland Carr does not show up as "Michelle" until April 6. The series runs for 80 straight days in 90-second increments. The mystery-themed, "Laguna Beach"-like series follows a group of high schoolers for two months of school culminating in the senior prom. A product tie-in twist geared to the high-tech lifestyle of today's adolescents and young adults is that viewers will be able to buy items they see on the Webisodes by going to StarStyle.com.

Carr knew going in that "Prom Queen" could be her big break.

"She called me at 2 a.m. crying because she was so excited when she found out she got the role," said her mother, Trena Carr.

The girls were well into the filming of "Prom Queen" before Eisner's involvement became public. Working in a groundbreaking production with Eisner's name on it put the advances in Forbes, USA Today, Washington Post, Business Week and all the trade press publications. "It is huge, just huge that Eisner is behind it," said Kateland Carr. "I am ecstatic."

The audience will be on two levels, she predicted. "The targeted audience is the high school and middle school kids, but, because his name is attached, the bigger names in Hollywood will be watching."

Smalltown girl grows up

People frequently ask Carr how she avoided becoming totally overwhelmed - a small-town Alabama product, reared in Harpersville, schooled in Columbiana and then - poof - Hollywood. "Oh it definitely was crazy, but I have never been more passionate about anything. When I am auditioning I am happier than I have ever been. It is all about the places you go inside yourself, because you have to become another person," Carr said.

Friends and family tried to persuade her to wait until she was a little older before heading to the West Coast, "but I was really ready to be here. It was a little easier for me to make the decision because I knew this is what I wanted to do and what and where I wanted to be."

However, that did not make it easier for Carr's mother.

Trena Carr, who is the SCHS guidance counselor and all-too familiar with the adolescents' problems even in the quiet world of Shelby County, worried about all the awful things that could happen to a beautiful 17-year-old girl on her own in LA.

"I lost 22 pounds worrying about her the first year," Trena Carr recalled. "Putting herself out there every day for rejection, and she was still 17 years old. But she has tremendous courage and confidence."

Carr cut a deal with her daughter on the eve of that 2004 odyssey: The parents would foot the bills for the first four months, and then Kateland had to make it on her own or come home.

"I thought she would be coming back home to go to school on a scholarship at Jeff State," Trena Carr said.

[adviltablet]

snooping around the promqueen site tonight and i found this staging.promqueen.tv/characters

intersting perhaps?

[milowent]

adviltablet said:

snooping around the promqueen site tonight and i found this staging.promqueen.tv/characters

intersting perhaps?

nice one, advil! apparently, some of what i thought were actress myspaces appear to have been CHARACTER myspaces -- setting up the backstory of the characters, interesting.

[milowent]

ah, there's the full cast listing:

[milowent]

update: added imdb links for 7 cast members to the top post. there may be more, that was just a quick search.

[Smashing]

Here's a funny short starring David Storrs (Prom Queen's Coach Zumwalt)
www.atomfilms.com/film/float_brief.jsp

[milowent]

smashing said:

Here's a funny short starring David Storrs (Prom Queen's Coach Zumwalt)
www.atomfilms.com/film/float_brief.jsp

lol. Coach is gonna have some 'splainin to do once screenshots of this show up at school.

[milowent]

Blurb on Katy Stoll (who plays Sadie Simmons - the do-gooder anti-promite introduced tonight in episode 2)

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=14870

"It also turns out that the series features a local actress, Katy Stoll, a native of Redwood City. Stoll got her start at the California Theatre Center in Santa Clara and graduated from Woodside High School. She plays the alternative, anti-establishment, anti-prom girl, aka Sadie Simmons."