2021 Grammy Nominee SAG-AFTRA, AEA

Now available! 

• Model in the 2022 Broadway Asian Men Calendar <-- click to get it for $19.99 (partial proceeds benefiting #StopAAPIHate)
• 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!

Current/Upcoming:

• Series Regular role in a new short form series for a digital/cable network channel - stay tuned for more details!
• Leading and principal role in several new musical readings, concerts and workshops - NYC
• Inaugural 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 (I was nominated for a Grammy Award as a Principal Soloist in the Best Musical Theater Album category!) 

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 theater as a teen.

I went to Rice University, where I really got into musicals and even transferred into The Shepherd School of Music as a Vocal/Opera Performance major for several semesters before ultimately graduating with a degree in Asian Studies (Chinese History, Culture and Language, magna cum laude).

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 was still loving doing theater on the side, started doing on-camera and print work too, and joined AEA & SAG-AFTRA (professional actors' unions).

I decided to finally go for it for real, and left law to attend The Boston Conservatory (at Berklee), where I gat 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 voiceovers!

I still play the violin every now and then. 

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I also love cooking and all things food-related.