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Kate’s TikTok parody of the Third Amendment + Avatar the Last Airbender featured on Insider: “As online discourse surrounding the Third Amendment has intensified due to military presence in Washington, DC and around the country in response to police brutality protests, Third Amendment memes are popping up on social media. The online discourse has also made its way to TikTok where creators are celebrating the amendment's time to shine.”
Denver Westword - Bloomsday Makes for a Lovely Outing in Dublin...and Boulder
“Kate Parkin is a very appealing Caithleen, her vulnerability pierced by occasional sparks of fierce defiance.” - Juliet Wittman
“Kate Parkin fascinated as the skitzy, sweet-sour Pony in The Realistic Joneses, adding a vibrating high note of charming eccentricity to an altogether very strong cast.”
“In Michael Morgan (Bob), Emily Paton Davies (Jennifer), Casey Andree (John) and Kate Parkin (Pony), director Stephen Weitz has hit the casting jackpot. I’d love to have been in on their conversations, hear their interpretations of the words they were required to say, listen to their feelings about motivation and meaning, because the resulting performances are vivid, and these actors work in beautiful synchronicity…Parkin plays flittering-fluttery Pony with beautiful, almost translucent style.” - Juliet Wittman
“A drama that feels raw, honest and true-to-life.” Boulder Daily Camera
“When new girl No. 46 (Kate Parkin) arrives, she throws off the pack. Not just because she’s home- schooled and “needs a shower,” as one Wolf quips. No, the joke’s on them: She’s got skill. While there’s no “I” in team, as the cliché goes, there is one in scholarship. One afternoon, a recruiter with a clipboard sidles up to the coach — whom we never see but gather is not well regarded by the girls — and tweaks the tensions.” Denver Post
“I can’t remember when I’ve seen the lives of young girls portrayed with such realism, understanding and sympathy.” Denver Westword
Los Angeles Theater Review - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Odyssey Theatre)
“Among the talented cast, the young lovers particularly stand out: Kate Parkin as Helena, Lily Marks as Hermia, Josh Heine as Demetrius and Noah James as Lysander. They get into some splendid arguments and fights, just like siblings do. Parkin’s body language is wonderfully expressive and her denunciation of Marks is particularly passionate.”
The LA Times - This Taylor Swift-Harry Potter mashup has the Internet exploding from joy
“If there was ever a video designed to make the Internet explode from joy, this is it. Los Angeles actress and self-described “Harry Potter superfan” Kate Parkin posted a video on YouTube featuring a medley of Taylor Swift songs reworked with Hogwarts-related lyrics and sung from the point of view of J.K. Rowling characters Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood and, of course, the boy wizard himself.” -Michael Schaub
HelloGiggles - The "Harry Potter"/Pokémon Go mashup you've always wanted is finally here
“We’re kinda obsessed with Pokémon Go at the moment. We’ve been obsessed with Harry Potter for the last two decades. Last week, we learned that Harry Potter Go could actually be a thing, and we need it like, yesterday. It’s coming, just not soon enough. So while we wait for the most magical augmented reality game to ever grace our phones, might as well go ahead and start combining Pokémon and Harry Potter together, yeah? YouTube user weasleysweaters — who has already given us some pretty magical HP tunes — has a brand new video out that combines these two things, and it is prefect perfect. What if instead of trying to catch them all, we were trying to…cast them all?” -Rachel Paige
Sweety High - This Is What Happens When Pokémon Go and Harry Potter Collide
“Although Niantic, the creators of the wildly popular Pokémon Go, have neither officially confirmed or denied the making of this game, we can still hope. Just in case dreams don't become reality, YouTuber Kate Parkin has combined the two wonderful franchises in another supremely creative way: with a magical, musical parody. Get ready to cast 'em all with this mash-up. This was Kate's first time directing a full-length video and collaborating with several talented actors and actresses. We have to point out that Kate also wrote the genius lyrics for this parody theme song. Kate tells Sweety High that it would be "a dream come true" if we could all walk around in the real world while casting spells in an alternate wizarding universe. We couldn't agree more.”
refinery29 - The Taylor Swift/Harry Potter Mash-Up Of Your Dreams
“Internet/musical genius Kate Parkin posted this video a few days ago, and it has gone appropriately viral. In it, the self-described Harry Potter superfan cleverly mashed up Taylor Swift songs and Harry Potter plot points. She harmonizes with herself in four parts, and the results might be even catchier than the original versions.” -Lauren Levine
“There are only two things I love in this world, and they are Taylor Swift and Harry Potter (sorry, family). But now there is a third thing that I love more than either of them: this mashup of Taylor Swift and Harry Potter createdrefinery29 - The Taylor Swift/Harry Potter Mash-Up Of Your Dreams by bona fide genius and all around spectacular human Kate Parkin. She has masterfully rewritten pretty much all of Swift's 1989, donned Hogwarts outfits, and harmonized with herself as all of your faves. If I had an Amortentia potion in front of me, it would smell like this YouTube video. And grilled cheese. Parkin, an L.A. based actor and singer, is known for her covers of pop songs and various Harry Potter parodies, which are all a gift to magic kind. This video in particular features Ron (who looks hilariously drunk the whole time), Harry (whose sweater game is on point), Draco, Voldemort, Luna Lovegood, and — not to be missed — Hermione, who basically narrates the whole thing like a BAMF and reminds us who was really in charge of keeping sh*t from hitting the fan at Hogwarts.” -Emma Lord
Entertainment Weekly - Taylor Swift Harry Potter mash-up parody video
“YouTuber weasleysweaters (Kate Parkin) turned some of Swift’s 1989 songs into Potter-referencing tracks, which she sings dressed up as your favorite Hogwarts characters. There’s Harry, Ron, and Hermione. It’s only fitting she does most of the work, belting “Welcome to Hogwarts.” (It’s been waiting for you.) A snotty Malfoy also appears and is rightfully shunned out of the frame, berated for creating “Bad Blood” with his “Mudblood” diss. Luna Lovegood pops up, and J.K. Rowling is dubbed “our queen” in the lyrics.” -Will Robinson
Cosmopolitan Philippines - Watch This Taylor Swift x Harry Potter Mashup Vid That's Beyond Brilliant
“This mashup parody video, created by YouTuber Kate Parkin aka weaseleysweaters, fuses some of Taylor’s songs from her 1989 album with Harry Potter references like “Welcome To Hogwarts.” LOL!” -Jacinda Lopez
CNET - Taylor Swift meets 'Harry Potter' in mashup you didn't know you needed
“YouTube filmmaker weasleysweaters, aka actor and singer-songwriter of "Harry Potter" tunes Kate Parkin, is out with another one of her catchy "Harry Potter" songs, and this one's a Taylor Swift mashup that's perfect for all you muggles out there who just want to ‘Shake It Off.’”
Seventeen - This Taylor Swift/Harry Potter Mashup is Absolutely Brilliant
"Your lightning bolt's on fleek" is the lyric of the century. Actress Kate Parkin created a medley of Taylor Swift songs with ingenious lyrical changes to reflect the Wizarding World. The video is on point. She alternates singing as Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco, and Luna, puts on a flawless British accent, and chants spells straight from the book. She's clever. "Welcome to New York" becomes "Welcome to Hogwarts" and "Bad Blood" becomes "Mudblood." She also coins the phrase, "Your lightning bolt's on fleek," which you should definitely use next time you encounter a Harry Potter lookalike on Halloween.” -Hannah Orenstein
A.V. Club - Musical mashup unites Swifties and Muggles
“You may think that Taylor Swift and Harry Potter have nothing in common other than being loved by teenaged girls but actress Kate Parkin has found a way to bring the two even closer together in a musical parody mashup. Parkin, a member of the New American Theatre in Los Angeles, leads a double life making Harry Potter musical videos as YouTuber weasleysweaters. Last year she mashed-up Potter and Frozen to create “Do You Want To Build a Horcrux?”" -Lisa Rabasca Roepe
Billboard - Taylor Swift & Harry Potter Make a Perfect Mash-Up
"Bad Blood," meet Mudblood. That's thanks to enterprising YouTuber Kate Parkin, who took several of Taylor Swift's 1989 songs and changed the lyrics into a delightful mash-up touting the values of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.” -Erin Strecker
HelloGiggles - This 'Harry Potter' + Taylor Swift mashup is perfection
“YouTuber Kate Parkin has done a phenomenal job not only re-writing “Bad Blood” with Harry Potter in mind, but “Welcome To New York,” “Blank Space,” and “Shake It Off,” too. That’s still not the only magic she’s pulled off with her mashup. She sings all the roles, dressed up as Hermione, Ron, Harry, Draco, He Who Shall Not Be Named, and Luna, too.” -Rachel Paige
Elle - This Taylor Swift-Harry Potter Mash-Up Is My Dream
“YouTuber Kate Parkin took some songs from Swift's 1989 album and Harry Potterized them, changing the lyrics to be Potterific—think "Nice to meet you, Slytherin" and "Got a long list of horcruxes, you'll find them like a game. But I'm just a Mudblood, Harry, I don't fear his name" to the tune of "Blank Space." Amazing. It's just like magic.” -Sally Holmes
MTV - How Can Harry Potter Get Better? Just Add Taylor Swift
“YouTube genius Kate Parkin combined two great tastes that taste more than great together -- Taylor Swift and Harry Potter, to be exact -- to brew the perfect parody potion. In the magical song, which utilizes the melodies of TaySway's "Bad Blood" and "Welcome To New York," Parkin plays roughly 90 different Potterverse characters to tell of some of Harry and Co.'s plights at Hogwarts. Things even get a little emotional toward the end. No, we're not kidding. Is...is someone chopping onions in here? Sniff.” -Kase Wickman