Career
In 2002, Romano became the first person to act in three Disney Channel projects simultaneously, supplementing her work on Even Stevens with a starring role in a movie named Cadet Kelly, alongside Hilary Duff, and voice acting as the title character in Kim Possible, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy. Her show inspired an adventure ride at Disney's Epcot which ran for over 5 years at the theme park, as well as two Disney Channel movies Kim Possible: So the Drama and Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time. She is also the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in the English version of the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, as well as in the Disney/Square game Kingdom Hearts and has continued success as a voice over actor on shows like Family Guy and The Penguins of Madagascar. Throughought her teens and twenties, Romano starred in movies for 'ABC Family and Disney Channel, including Campus Confidential, Taking Five, The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold, and The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream. Various other appearances include MTV's Kaya, CW's Joan of Arcadia and Summerland, and TNT's Hawthorne. In 1998, Romano made her Broadway debut in the musical Parade by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown as Mary Phagan.
On February 17, 2004, Romano began a 31-week run of playing Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. She left the production on September 12, 2004, after raising ticket attendance from 30% to 99%. She starred in the Broadway company of Avenue Q, beginning her run on September 29, 2008.
She most recently starred as Michelle in an Off-Broadway show, White's Lies, which began previews at New World Stages on April 12, 2010, and officially opened on May 6, 2010. The show closed on June 13, 2010. She also penned a novel, Grace’s Turn, for Disney literary subsidiary Hyperion, which received accolades by the New York Public Library (NYPL) as the 2007 Teenage Book of the Year. In 2012, she directed a music video for Steph Gold's "THE SUN" which was accepted into the Los Angeles Shorts Fest 2012.
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