Nancy Wang Yuen is a sociologist and pop culture expert. She is the author of 'Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism' and co-author of The Prevalence and Portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islanders Across 1,300 Popular Films.' She is the host of The Disrupters Podcast and has appeared on PBS, NPR, MSNBC, BBC World, and Dr. Phil. She has spoken and consulted on diversity issues at Amazon, Disney, Dreamworks, Lionsgate and Netflix. She is a guest writer at CNN, Elle, Los Angeles Times, NBC, Newsweek and Vanity Fair. Nancy is currently writing a book about her life through the films and TV shows she grew up watching.

CARLA CHING

Carla Ching (Playwright) is a native Angeleno who called NYC home for 16 years. Her plays include Revenge Porn or The Story of a Body (Toulmin Commission for The Atlantic; O’Neill  Playwrights Conference 2021), Nomad Motel (NNPN Rolling World Premiere at City Theatre, Pittsburgh, Horizon Theatre  in Atlanta and Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City; NY Premiere at The Atlantic Theatre in NYC), The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists at Play, Theatre Mu), Fast Company (South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio  Theatre) and TBA (2g). Carla’s full-length plays have been produced or workshopped by Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Huntington Theatre Company, The Kitchen, The Lark Playwrights Workshop, Lyric Stage, Ma-Yi, Midnight Rice, PFP and The Women’s Project among others. Carla is a co-recipient of the 2021 Horton Foote Playwriting Award from the Dramatists Guild and with Ammo, a recipient of The Los Angeles New Play Prize. On television, Carla has written for Graceland, Fear the Walking Dead, I Love Dick, The First, Preacher, Home Before Dark and the forthcoming Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-created by Francesca Sloane and Donald Glover. She is developing new projects with Monkey Paw and Superfrog for Amazon, Field Trip and Hivemind for FX, Shondaland for Netflix and Imminent Collision with Sameer Gadhia. A million thanks to Ammo, producers, designers, cast, SM team and Bernardo.

BERNARDO CUBRIA

Bernardo Cubría (Director) is a Mexican director/playwright/screenwriter who was recently awarded the 2021 Smith Prize for political theatre. He helmed the World Premiere of Malcolm Barrett’s Brain Problems for Ammunition Theatre Company in 2019. Cubría’s work, The Play You Want, premiered at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles in 2022 and garnered the Generation Award by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, and the Ingenio Award for new play by a Latinx Playwright by The Milagro Theatre in Portland, Oregon. In 2019 Cubría was nominated for BEST PLAYWRIGHT at the Ovation, Stage Raw, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his play The Giant Void In My Soul. The play is having its Regional Premiere at Luna Stage in Orange, New Jersey, its international Premiere at Foro Shakespeare in Mexico City in 2022, and it received a reading on Broadway at Circle in the Square in 2019. His play Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement was a Semifinalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in 2016, and was produced Off-Broadway at INTAR in fall of 2017, as well as regionally. In 2016 his play The Judgment of Fools received three productions nationally, in NYC, Los Angeles, and Houston. Cubría is co-writer of the film "Kill Yr Idols" which is being Executive Produced by Carlos Lopez Estrada. He was also the co-writer of the short film “Spanish Class,” winning Best Comedy at The NBC Universal Shorts Awards in 2018.

TINA HUANG

NELSON LEE

JEANNE SAKATA

KAHYUN KIM

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