Draft:Kate Roman

Kate Roman is a teenage actor, dancer and singer from Toronto, Canada who has been performing on stage and screen since age 4. She is most known for her breakout lead role as Ariana in season 9 of The Next Step. Kate is the younger sister of Emily Roman who is also an actor, dancer and singer. Emily plays the guest-starring role of Presley on The Next Step in seasons 6-9 and series regular Jeri Moore on Amazon Prime's The Lake. Kate is a highly-skilled, technically trained dancer in 7 genres with over 10 years pre-professional level training.

Kate also appears in 13: The Musical as part of the cheer crew, an ensemble role where she dances, sings and acts. 13TM is a Broadway-adapted film by Netflix produced by the Emmy/Tony winning team of producer Neil Meron (Chicago, Hairspray), writer Robert Horn and musician Jason Robert Brown; directed by Tamra Davis (High School Musical: The Series and Crossroads starring Brittany Spears). This is Kate's second Netflix project following Feel The Beat (starring Sofia Carson and directed by Elissa Down).

Other credits include: Amelia Parker/The Parker Andersons, Sad Girl music video as Charlotte Cardin's doppelgänger (Atlantic Records), The Big Fun Crafty Show (NBC Universal), and Gerry Dee's Kids That Are Amazing at Stuff (CBC), where she played comedy improv with Gerry himself and garnered her own laughs at only age 7. Kate also co-produced and starred in an independent film "Butterfly" at age 10 for which she won a Joey Award for Best Actress in a Short Film and was nominated for a Young Artist Award.