Karina Noelle Castillo

Karina Noelle Castillo is an LA Chicana, actor, producer, director and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, CA. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and California Institute of the Arts where she studied as a Theatre Major. In 2014 Karina served as the honorary Quinceanera for Hollywood Forever Cemetery's 15 year anniversary of its famed Dia De Los Muertos celebration. The event was attended by over 40,000 people and is the largest Day of the Dead event in Los Angeles. Karina is the CEO and founder of Another Killer Winter, a production company focused on projects that explore the bitter-sweetness of humanity with an emphasis on looking through the female lens. Projects include Latina talk show The Trend Talk! on MeTV and web series Buzzchat which premiered on the FYI channel as a featured segment of talk-show KikiMobile in 2017. In 2019 Karina and co-founder Stevie Rae Dominguez launched their Los Angeles based arts collective The Heartbreak Artists. As a subsidiary of Another Killer Winter, The Heartbreak Artists seeks to continue its parent company's goal of highlighting life's bitter-sweetness by supporting local artists in their quest to find beauty in chaos. Members include poets, cartoonists, painters, filmmakers, photographers, and more. In 2020 Karina started Humana/Xicana, a clothing line focused on connecting to her indigenous roots by bringing the iconography of Pre-Columbian civilizations into the modern age.