Leina Betzer

GPA: 4.33 | Class Rank: 10% | SAT Super Score: 2140

EDUCATION
2012
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
2016
Competitive Entry Fine Arts Magnet (8% Acceptance)
Acting Major (9,10,11) Theatrical Design Major (12)
Summer
2015

Summer
2014
2012
2014

University of California Los Angeles

Design Media Arts Summer Program
Learned video game design, logo design, website
development, film shooting and editing, and
typography
University of Houston, Bauer School of Business
5% Acceptance rate to the program
Studied entrepreneurship and toured successful
businesses
University of Houston Film School
Created three original films
University of Michigan
Independent Chinese language study (9,10)

Summer
2014

University of Florida
Independent Psychology study

Summer
2014

SERVICE EXPERIENCE
10th
PVA Takes Action, Houston, TX
Present
President
School affiliated club created to promote
community service with weekly Friday
outings
Over 200 hours of service
10th Young at Art, Houston, TX
Present
Founder/President
Created organization that provides
nursing home residents with vocal and
instrumental performances.
Over 50 hours of service
10th Brown Bag Shows
Present
President
Lunchtime pop-up theatre with over 100
audience members at each performance
Students showcase their original work
including spoken word, playwriting, music
composition, choreographic, and songwriting
pieces
11th
Film Productions Club
Present
Founder/President
Over twenty members
Club created to facilitate the making of
original films/school advertisements
th
10
International Thespian Society, Houston, TX
Present
Secretary

Houston, TX

Los Angeles, CA

Houston, TX

Houston, TX
Online
Online

Elected position
Over 175 hours of volunteer service

WORK EXPERIENCE
2012-2015 Accelerate Learning, Houston, TX
Actress - Auditioned and was chosen as lead actress
for a series of STEM videos designed to teach critical
math and science skills to students K-12th grade.
Summer
Hune Company, Houston, TX
2015
Songwriter and publicist - Composed original music
and lyrics
Present
YogaOne, Houston TX
Karma Yogi Clean Yoga studio in exchange for free
classes
HONORS & AWARDS
12th
Teens Serving Texas Nominee
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10th
Pollination Project Grant Recipient
11th
2nd Place UIL Marketing and Publicity State Level
11th
Featured Playwright, The Alley Theatres Playwriting 360
11th
TEDx Speaker on The Importance of Art in Education
th
10
Best Actress
9th
Most Improved Theatre Student
9th
Third Place, Bellaire Buzz Photography
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THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
2013
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
This play performed 30 original scripts
written by members of the cast in 60
minutes.
2014
The Sins of Sor Juana
This play followed the life of a Spanish nun who
fought to educate herself, and express her
opinions through poetry.
2014
The Lesson
This play was an adaptation of The Lesson by
Eugene Ionesco, about a professor who tries to
murder one of his pupils.
2015
Inherited
This play was a devised work combining
sonnets, scenes, and poems from Shakespeare,
Bukowski, Hughes, Whitman, and myself.
2015
True West
This play follows the rivalry between two
estranged brothers.
2015
Bobrauschenbergamerica
This play was about what goes on in an artists
mind as they create something new. I pitched
this play to my school and was chosen from fifty
other pitches.
2015
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Playwright/Lead
Actress
Sor Juana (Lead)

Pupil/Marketing
and Publicity
Juno /Marketing
and Publicity
/Songwriter
Marketing and
Publicity
Phils Girl
/Marketing and
Publicity
Marketing and

2016

This play was adapted from the original script to

focus on current day police brutality.
Clybourne Park
This play is about the gentrification of a Chicago
neighborhood over time. It is meant to be a
sequel to A Raisin in the Sun.

Publicity
Marketing and
Publicity