American Koko Launches on ABCd

This past June 19th, also known as Juneteenth – an important historical date in American civil history – ABC released Seasons 1 and 2 of the satirical comedy American Koko.  The series follows Akosua Miller (creator Diarra Kilpatrick), an agent of the Everyone’s A little Racist (E.A.R.) Agency that helps people solve problems in a “post-post-racial…

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“Ed Chen” bros it up on Silicon Valley Season 4

  As HBO’s critically acclaimed Silicon Valley continues it’s skewering of the eponymous tech scene in Season 4, you can catch Tim as “Ed Chen” – venture capitalist and rising star at Raviga Capital Management. Ed Chen is best described as corporate kiss-ass and frat-bro who becomes a snarky rival to a beset Monica (played by…

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Yoga Play @ South Coast Rep

South Coast Repertory will have the World Premiere of Dipika Guha’s YOGA PLAY, as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival.  The play will have a limited run, and shares the festival with other full productions and staged readings. Joan has been hired to stabilize Jojomon, a yoga apparel giant, after its CEO is brought down…

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Tokyo Fish Story

  The Old Globe Theatre of San Diego staged a triumphant production of Kimber Lee’s TOKYO FISH STORY this past summer in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.  It marks the third production of the play, but is the first to be done in the round and with real sushi. Master sushi chef Koji built…

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Love Is All You Need?

November 15th, 2016 saw the Los Angeles premiere of LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED? – the debut feature of award-winning filmmaker Kim “Rocco” Shields.  LOVE is based on her short film that features a young girl who is bullied in a world where the majority of people are homosexual, and those that are heterosexual are considered…

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“Unsingle” the Series

From the delciously twisted minds of LadyPantz comedy, comes: “UNSINGLE – a series about 3 women teetering on the edge of 30, and the men who love them.” Unsingle stars Minnie Goode, Dede Drake, and Hanie Lynch as Eve, Jo, and Katie, three friends who are navigating the complexities of monogamy in a not-so-monogamous town….

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The North China Lover @ The Lookingglass

You never forget your first lover. The affair plays like a moving picture over and over in your mind: passionate, consuming, secret, taboo. Fade in: the seamy French Quarter of Southern Indochina in the 1930s where the 14-year-old impoverished schoolgirl who will someday be French novelist Marguerite Duras is about to meet and captivate a…

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Living With Models Season 2

    The critically acclaimed series “Living With Models” is back for a second season with a bigger cast, bigger setting, and more reality show formats!   Living With Models Season 2 Trailer   The series follows Lauren (Lauren Reeder), a normal (read: boring) girl and her antics in a pseudo-reality show that replaces her…

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Video: Authenticity A Must

From the creators of “Ninja Say What?!” a short that examines race and stereotypes in Hollywood.   Authenticity A Must Written, Edited, and Directed by: Viet Nguyen Produced by: Chris Nguyen and Ryan Kim Featuring: Dante Swain Tim Chiou Aliza Pearl M’saada Nia Dane Collier Mike Kelley Damon Middleton  

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The North China Lover @ The Ground Floor

In July, I participated in the 2012 Summer Residency at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s conference and development lab, The Ground Floor.  I took part in the workshop of “The North China Lover” – an adaptation of the best-selling book by Margerite Duras, and in some respects an adaption of the 1992 film “The Lover”. The stage play…

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