2021 Grammy Nominee SAG-AFTRA, AEA

Upcoming:

• Series Regular role in a new short form series for a digital/cable network channel - stay tuned for more details!
• Narrator of an upcoming audiobook for Harper Collins
• March 7-14: Supporting role in readings of new musical Medusa the Musical  - NYC - press release HERE
• March 13-17: Playing the villain in a workshop of new musical Best Time to Be Alive - NYC
• March 27: Playing the villain in a new short play reading for PlayGround-NY 's Monday Night Playground - virtual
• April 10-23: Playing the villain in a new musical lab - NYC - details coming soon
• May-June 2023: Supporting role in a world premiere new musical production - more details coming soon!
• September-October 2023: Supporting role in another world premiere new musical production - more details coming soon!

Current Appearances: 

• Recurring role ("Michael Xufu Huang") in Shonda Rhimes' Netflix series "Inventing Anna" (episodes 103 & 104) 
• Supporting role ("Executive Chairman Li") in Judd Apatow's Netflix film The Bubble 
• Audiobook co-narrator of Grace D. Li's new heist novel Portrait of a Thief - NY Times Bestseller, now optioned for a TV series!
• Audiobook narrator of Belinda Huijuan Tang's new novel A Map for the Missing - longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize!
• Inaugural acting company member of the 2022 -2023 PlayGround-NY Company - NYC

Recent Highlights:   

• Summer 2021: Performed from the new musical Soft Power in the star-studded Kennedy Center 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert - live and also filmed for PBS (subscription required, check us out at 1:15:00-1:30:00)
• Spring 2020: Performed in the star-studded virtual concert Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration - Our "Someone in a Tree" quartet (1:40:55-1:48:28) was named one of the New York Times "Best Performances of 2020"! 
• Fall 2019: A supporting role in the new musical Soft Power at The Public Theater Off-Broadway - watch the MUSIC VIDEO and get the ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM (for which I was nominated for a Grammy Award as a principal soloist, Best Musical Theater Album!) 

I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where I played a lot of violin as a kid and then got more into choir and drama as a teen.

I went to Rice University, where I majored in Asian Studies (Chinese History, Culture and Language, magna cum laude), with additional major studies in Vocal/Opera Performance at the University's prestigious Shepherd School of Music.

Seeking a "practical" career in the arts, I went to the UC Berkeley School of Law and became an entertainment lawyer in S.F.--briefly.

I did a lot of theater in the Bay Area, started doing on-camera and print work too, and joined AEA & SAG-AFTRA (professional actors' unions).

I decided to finally go for it, and left law to attend The Boston Conservatory (at Berklee), where I obtained a Master's Degree in Musical Theater.

Now I live in NYC, and am having the time of my life doing musicals and plays, film and TV, commercials, modeling, hand modeling and voice acting!

I still play the violin every now and then. 

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I also love cooking and all things food-related.