Lisa Christine Holmberg

Young Entertainer Award winner Lisa Christine Holmberg is an international award-winning actress. Lisa was born in Elgin, Illinois, to Craig and Sarah Holmberg, on September 13th, 1997. Lisa has won 21 awards internationally for her portrayal of Alice, an AI who becomes sentient, in ALT + <3 (2018), 14 for her role of Kim in the time travel comedy Love Takes Time (2018), and 15 for the passive aggressive Kiera Lewton in Say It with Your Vest (2019). She's also won awards internationally for her work in the series Just The Tip (2019) as the whimsical Smokey and received a nomination for the obsessed, bedsheet snorting, exceedingly eccentric Jennifer Bates in Roses and Restraining Orders (2017). Lisa also won a Young Entertainer Award, considered to be the child actor equivalent of the Oscars, for portraying Kiera Lewton in Say It with Your Vest (2019) and has had five additional YEA nominations Be Happy (2017), ALT + <3 (2018), A Family Christmas (2018), Just The Tip (2019), and If the Shoe Fits, Buy It! (2019) respectively.

When she was eight-years-old, her first musical was a youth theater production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999). Later when Lisa was 16, her first professional, theater performance came when she was cast in an Equity production of the same show with Ozark Actors Theatre playing the role of Zebulun. She was also cast in the 2014 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's A Christmas Carol (1999) where she played the role of Chalmers and was a resident performer at Burbank Family Theater (2016-2019).

She began singing professionally in 2007 when she sang in the Christmas spectacular Holiday Showcase at the Sears Centre Arena. In 2008, she sang in Holst's The Planets which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy and performed again in the Sears Centre's Holiday Showcase with Tony award winner Jodi Benson. Since then, Lisa's sung the National Anthem for the opening of the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, the Chicago Rush at the Allstate Arena, and the Chicago Express at the Sears Centre Arena. She was also selected to perform in the international Aloha Children's Choir Festival at Waikiki Shell in Honolulu with Henry Leck. Lisa has performed in concert with the Grammy® award winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Dove award nominees BarlowGirl.