John Robert Powers Acting School Student Casted In Major Hollywood Film

March 24, 2008 - PRLog -- Ron Patterson, President of John Robert Powers, announced today that another one of its acting and modeling students had landed a coveted role in a Hollywood major motion picture.  Six year old Laura Ann Kesling  who has been attending acting classes at the John Robert Powers School in Scottsdale, Arizona  since early 2007 landed a co-starring role opposite Adam Sandler and Keri Russell in The Walt Disney Picture, Bedtime Stories.  The film is being directed by Adam Shankman.
Laura Ann Kesling is just one of several breakout talents who have recently emerged from the John Robert Powers school system which currently has over seventy-five acting and modeling schools in the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe.  Children, teens and young adults from all over learn the in-and-outs of acting for television and film at John Robert Powers.  John Robert Powers acting students center their curriculum on television commercials and theatrical workshops, scene study, soaps and sitcoms, improvisation, audition techniques, cold readings, voice and diction, monologues and film work.
While Laura Ann Kesling took classes at the John Robert Powers school in Scottsdale, Arizona she attended an iPOP! (International Presentation of Performers) 2007 convention in Las Vegas where she was discovered and signed by Trilogy Management.
John Robert Powers is an internationally recognized acting and modeling school system with locations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.   For over eighty years, John Robert Powers has been training students in personal development.  John Robert Powers provides every student with the schooling, guidance, and confidence to further their individual potential and to reach their highest career goals.  
Famous John Robert Powers alumni include First Ladies, Jackie Kennedy and Betty Ford.  Other celebrities include Princess Grace of Monaco, Raquel Welch, Lucille Ball, Ann Margaret, Diana Ross, Faith Ford, Janice Dickinson, Nikki Taylor, Ryan Locke, and Josh Duhamel.  John Robert Powers actors and models have appeared in national commercials, television shows and films such as Levi Strauss & Co., Dr. Pepper, Revlon, Apple Computers, Target, Chevrolet, American Idol, Superman Returns and Hannah Montana.

International Presentation of Performers, iPOP! is the successful merger of the music and acting industry with fashion and modeling, creating one of the largest and most well respected events for aspiring actors, singers, dancers and models to attend.  Inaugurated in July 2005 with two conventions annually, iPOP! has already introduced close to seven thousand talented children, teenagers and young adults to the most respected agents, managers, producers and casting agents in the business today.  iPOP! participants ranging from the ages of six to twenty-five years old attend iPOP! events knowing in many cases that their audition may lead to modeling contracts with Wilhelmina, Elite, MMG or LA Models as it already has for several recent iPOP! graduates who have done fashion layouts for such industry giants as Glamour Magazine, JC Penny, Mervins, Target, Teen Magazine and Seventeen Magazine.   iPOP! auditions may lead to a national commercial as was the case for recent iPOP! participants who appeared in commercials for Motorola, Cingular, L’Oreal, McDonalds, Band-Aid and Microsoft Windows.  

At iPOP! children, teenagers and young adults audition in front of agents in specific industry categories headshots, commercial and television print, fashion print and runway, television, singing, dancing, monologue, scene and swimsuit.  In the last three years, iPOP! attendees have booked appearances on Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Scrubs, Entourage, Hannah Montana, Zoey 101, Criminal Minds, Bones, Law & Order and Grey’s Anatomy.  They have appeared in films such as Blood Oranges Crossing Over with Harrison Ford and The Number 23 with Jim Carrey.  

Contact: Tas Steiner
Tas Steiner Public Relations
Tel: 323-857-6700
tas@tspr-la.com