KARINA NOELLE CASTILLO
WRITER

Karina Noelle Castillo is an actor, producer, director and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, CA with 18 years of hands on experience in film/ television and theatre production, and decade of creative direction, graphic design, and social media management. She is an alumna of Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and California Institute of the Arts where she studied as a Theatre Major. Her film and television acting credits include NCIS, The Good Doctor, Grey's Anatomy, L.A.'s Finest, Better Things, and Promised Land as well as feature films Holidays and Missing, the highly anticipated sequel to independent smash hit Searching starring John Cho. 

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Karina worked as an assistant editor at boutique production company Lodger Films on web series Jerk All Stars, a Jerking dance competition hosted on MySpace and sponsored by Sprite. She has since gone on to edit projects seen on channels such as ABC, FYI, FOX, MeTV and Amazon.

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Karina is the current Artistic Director of Thymele Arts, an arts incubator in East Hollywood with over 8,000 square feet of rehearsal and performance spaces. At the arts center Karina is responsible for producing and curating The Salon, an artist showcase with new presenters sharing their artistic journeys, hopes and fears, and inspirations in Q&A sessions. In her position she is responsible for identifying and executing an artistic brand and vision for the whole of the company including color palettes, iconography, photography, typography, style guides, etc. 

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Karina is the recipient of the Mexican-American Cultural Education Foundation (MACEF) Filmmaker Production Grant and was a Second Rounder in ScreenCraft Film Fund Grant. Her script The Wall, is currently in the top 19% of all Short Thriller projects on Coverfly.