Robyn Louie

During her first year of college at the University of California, Irvine (2008), Louie placed as a semi-finalist for Krazy Glue's online video contest for creating a commercial. Immediately following that, Louie became involved on the website take180.com. She grew in member rank, starting out as an intern and rising to director, executive, studio chief, and finally to mogul by commenting on and critiquing challenge entries, placing as a top reviewer on challenges, placing as a finalist in challenges, as well as winning challenges. On take180.com, Louie received two Producer Choice Awards signifying her role in two T180 webisodes. During her second year of college at UCI, Louie joined Zotfilm and Film-Arts-Drama-Alliance (FADA). For Zotfilm's first project Dear Brother (2009), a parody of SNL's Dear Sister, Louie served as an actor and videographer. Through FADA, Louie connected with people searching for cast and crew for student films. Louie has served as a voice actor, lead actor, and light grip on various student projects. In spring 2010 and winter 2011, Louie held different positions for two productions by Wiseman Visuals. In 2010, she was the light grip for the short Unsolve. In 2011, Louie was the script supervisor for Betray. For her video contribution to the game Truth or Lies' Casting Call in the summer of 2010, Louie received a Wii version of the game. In fall of 2010, Louie won 2nd prize in Barrett Moving's "Fess Your Mess and Win" Contest for her "Prop Central" video submission. In spring 2011, Louie's video about ethics was posted on Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics website. Around the same time, Louie won the Mother's Day video contest by Rio Roses. In 2012, Louie was a crew member for The Vagina Monologues at UCI. As a crew member, Louie carried components of the set to and from the production truck to the production site, screwed panels of the set together, and broke down the set at the end of each show. She also taped down wires of the lighting equipment to improve safety conditions for the cast, crew, and audience. Louie graduated from the University of California, Irvine in June 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in cognitive psychology. In September 2012, more than 100 people submitted videos to the McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union "We Hear You" contest. Louie placed as one of the top five finalists and won an honorable mention prize.