Acting Out - Our Staff Bios

Christine Wolf - Marketing

2008-03-01T09:05:00.000-08:00

Christine considers herself as being tri-coastal. A native New Yorker, who spent a few years in LA before coming to Texas, her permanent home. Christine started acting 8 years ago with credits such as: Guest star on "Friday Night Lights", Principal role in Pat Green's music video "Dixie Lullaby", Feature films, Narrative Shorts- that have shown in many festivals including Tribeca, numerous commercials, industrials, and voice overs. Christine even enjoys doing stunts and has been a part of Richard Hancock's Action Actors for over a year.
Being an Aries who likes being in control, Christine tried her hand in producing. She has produced two shorts and is working on her 3rd. Recently, Christine has also gotten into casting. Besides currently interning as a casting assistant on the Terrence Malick film, "The Tree of Life", she has now casted two SAG commercials for the production company Action Figure. Christine aspires to become a Commercial Producer. She is excited to join CITA mag. as she is a fireball of energy and wants to make Austin the home for film that it should be. Christine is an avid member of the Austin Film Society and Reel Women.

Courtney Pierce - Photographer

2007-11-09T20:07:00.000-08:00

Soon after Courtney was born, her aunt had her cards read and they revealed that she would become a great and influential artist. However, when Courtney’s childhood art only reared stick figures her parents doubted any artistic talent in their youngest child and soon forgot all about the cards. At 12, Courtney stole her mother’s camera and rekindled everyone’s hope of her becoming an artist.

Courtney moved to Austin to attend St. Edward’s University where she graduated with a BA in Photocommunications. She loves Austin for it’s music and film scene, as well as it’s beautiful lakes and trails, it’s ample vegetarian restaurants, and of course the talented and all around amazing people who reside there.

She believes in CITA and it’s brilliant staff and is anxious to become a leader in the Austin film community!

Alison Chester - Editorial Contributor + Marketing

2007-04-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

Alison Chester is an all around go-to girl. She is good at everything, yet has no discernible talents. She loves living in Austin, her friends, her cat, her house and her (soon to be) husband. Her background and current job at Front Gate Tickets keep her in her marketing hat, but she also enjoys writing, producing, acting, making deals, brainstorming and telling people what to do. She has co-produced and acted in several short films in Austin in the past year and hopes to add a few more to the list, and eventually produce her own projects. Alison got involved as a contributing editor with Caught in the Act through friends she met in The Ben Taylor Workshop, namely Corey Burke, who she thinks is amazing.
You can reach Alison’s cat at www.myspace.com/hurricanechester or Alison459@yahoo.com

Michelle Keffer - Editorial Contributor

2007-04-05T13:04:00.000-07:00

Michelle Keffer is a lot of things. She is a Scorpio. She is an actress, a singer, a television host and a writer. She loves people and parties and performing. She is a wife, a sister, a daughter and a friend. She is a Yankee, by birth and by nature, but loves Austin. She is a graduate of Kent State University with a degree in Theatre. She loves music, ice cream, spicey food, dancing like no one is watching, deep, late night conversations, laughing so hard it hurts and CITA!!!
http://www2.blogger.com/www.MichelleKeffer.com
http://www2.blogger.com/www.readmysubtext.com/hosts
http://www2.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/116841505

Tiffany Montgomery - Advertising Manager

2007-04-04T20:13:00.000-07:00

Tiffany has always had a passion for acting and knew that this is one area that she would forever use her God-given talents! She desires to give people the same emotion and intimate connection that she has gained from phenomenal films/acting over the years. After making her way from Oklahoma she soon fell in love with Austin, the local entertainment industry and the fabulous people! At the University of Central Oklahoma she graduated early with a degree in Theatre Arts/Marketing. She has an adventurous spirit and is continuously in quest of ways to fashion her own destiny. Exercising, prevention health, reading, writing, photography, traveling, dancing, film festivals and music are some of the things that spur her on in life! Her training in Austin includes Van Brooks and Dan Fauci of Two Chairs Studios, Donise Hardy of Casting Works LA, Steve Prince and private coaches/workshops. One of her favorite quotes is "If you can dream it, you can achieve it!" by Walt Disney. Be ready for more amazing things to come from Caught In The Act Magazine because with a staff of such amazingly talented and driven people there is no stopping the success that we aspire! Now, Tiffany is off to Nashville for a bit but will soon make her way back to the Great City of Austin!
www.tiffanymontgomery.com
http://www.colliertalent.com/TIFFANY.MONTGOMERY/montgomery.htm
www.myspace.com/tiffanymontgomery

Corey Burke - Executive Editor

2007-04-02T07:29:00.000-07:00

Corey has always had big dreams for herself and a solid belief that she can do and is capable of whatever it is that she wants. Caught in the Act Magazine is one of the many ideas that Corey has had, and it wasn't until she became friends with Lauren Scott and the other members of the CITA staff that this one idea was able to take real form and develop itself. Acting too, is something that Corey also devotes much of herself to - but becoming one takes being dependent on other people to supply the parts. This doesn't quite suite Corey's independent nature and she's constantly looking for ways to create her own future exactly the way she wants it. Look out for the future of CITA MAG because with Corey as its leader - just being a magazine is far from where its headed!
Corey has studied with Gabriel Folse at the State Theater, Van Brooks and Dan Fauci at Two Chairs Studio, Donise Hardy and Pato Hoffman at Casting Works LA, and is currently taking classes with Ben Taylor at the Gibson Guitar Center.
http://www.tcoettalent.com/Burke_Corey/CoreyBurke.html
www.myspace.com/coreytheactress

Mikel McCurdy - Marketing Manager

2007-04-02T07:15:00.000-07:00

Mikel has been passionate about acting for as long as she can remember. She has studied with Ivanna Chubbuck in LA and Van Brooks in Austin. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Journalism/Advertising. She has 3+ years experience in media placement/sales. Mikel loves to travel more then anything. Here she is at Buckingham Palace in England. Coming this fall... pictures from Paris!

http://www.agencetalent.com/cgi/site/talentdetail.php?talentfolder=mikel_m

Patricia Robinson - Editorial Contributor + PR

2007-04-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

Ever since Patricia was five, she wanted to be an actress. She went away from it in high school to focus on cheerleading competitions, but she found her way back to acting in 2002. Ever since she realized that acting is what she's wanted to do, she's been working hard in classes (Van Brooks, State Theatre classes, and private coaches), studying hard and finding different ways to keep her inner child alive.
Patricia got her degree in Social Work from the University of Texas and is represented by Erin Franklin at Agence Talent. http://www.agencetalent.com/cgi/site/talentdetail.php?talentfolder=patricia_r_
Patricia made her community theatre debut in Breast Entanglements, and has also worked on several short and student films, and other print and commercial work. When she's not acting, she enjoys volunteering, reading, writing, and keeping up to date with all things Harry Potter!
Patricia was so excited to help start Caught in the Act Magazine and cannot wait to see where the magazine goes. www.myspace.com/prob

Lynn Burnor - Editorial Contributor

2007-03-28T14:15:00.000-07:00

Lynn Burnor arrived in Austin in May 2005 after an
acting internship with Mill Mountain Theater, where she
toured Virginia as part of a children’s theater troupe, as well as performing on the main stage in Seussical and the Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works. After attaining her Texas massage therapy license in 2006, she has gone on to perform in several area short films, as well as with the Vestige Group’s production of Muses: Memories of a House, Gobotrick’s Elektra, and the City Theatre’s upcoming Songs for a New World. She met the founders of CITA through Van Brooks’ acting classes and is proud to be present at the magazine’s inception. She is excited to be on the CITA staff, and looking forward to making this a banner year!
http://www.agencetalent.com/cgi/site/talentdetail.php?talentfolder=lynn_b