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Allyn Pintal is a writer and performer based in Los Angeles. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She co-hosts/co-produces "The Dial-Up Show," a monthly improv and storytelling show at UCB. She is currently on the UCB Harold team "Vulture" and the UCB Maude team "Thirst Trap...
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Chris Renfro (CBS, CollegeHumor) is an actor-writer-improviser from Los Angeles, CA. He has one of the few asian parents who fully support him being an artist and being gay. Though, they did have a very hard time accepting that he wasn't going to be a physicist.
Jes Tom (they/them) is a New York based actor, writer, and weird queer stand up comic, gleefully providing the nonbinary queer Asian American radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. As a comic, Jes has shared stages with Awkwafina, Kate Bornstein, Aparna Nancherla...
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Jiavani Linayao is a Filipina, Black, Queer actress and improviser. She can be seen on Netflix in "Between Two Ferns: The Movie" and performing comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.
Joy Regullano was a "Sesame Street" writing fellow and most recently was a staff writer on a new Netflix family show, "The Healing Powers of Dude." TV acting credits include "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," "Modern Family," "Speechless," "House of Lies," and "Supernatural." She has performed...
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JR De Guzman was born in the Philippines and raised in California, JR De Guzman began performing comedy while working as a music teacher, which he quickly learned just meant teaching Taylor Swift songs to teenagers. He has entertained all over the world, having performed for Stand-Up...
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Kathy Yamamoto is a writer, performer and cake enthusiast who lives in Culver City, where she coincidentally was raised, and where she will probably stay forever! She's Japanese and Polish, so you can stop wondering about her last name. She has written for Cosmopolitan.com, GOOD Magazine...
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Kim Cooper is from Iowa, which you can tell by looking at her. She improvises with Voltron at Asian AF and truly has the best time. Kim can most recently be seen on "Black Monday" and has also appeared on "Adam Ruins Everything" and in the pilot "Nice." She made a webseries called...
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Originally from Hawaii, Kimee is best known for her role as medical examiner Dr. Noelani Cunha on "Hawai‘i Five-0" and "Magnum P.I." When not examining fake dead bodies, she runs a handful of creative companies including: Improv Hawaii and The Hawaii Comedy Festival. Kimee also...
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Nori Reed is a comedian and writer originally from Christian County, Kentucky. Nori cut her teeth in the stand-up world in Oakland, CA, where she co-produces the award-winning comedy show, Man Haters. In 2019, Nori featured at
SF Sketchfest where she worked alongside Janeane Gar...
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Pallavi Gunalan is a biomedical engineer, stand-up comedian, improviser, and actor. She’s performed all over the US and India. Pallavi co-produces the Facial Recognition Comedy stand-up show and podcast, and has been featured in Splitsider, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and the...
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Ruman Kazi, a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory for Acting, has acted in contemporary and classical plays, directed a critically acclaimed production of "Our Lady of 121st Street" from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, and has acted in shows such as "2 Broke Girls...
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Saagar Shaikh is a Pakistani-American actor/comedian and producer based in Los Angeles. He graduated from business school from the University of Texas at San Antonio and then never got a job. You can catch him on the web series, "Unfair and Ugly." He's also a producer and co-host...
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Sam O is a writer and comedian from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, also the birthplace of George Lopez and the sister band HAIM.Sam wrote and starred in the music festival parody show, "Flayme Fest", which got a run at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles...
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Shilpa is a comedian, writer and producer in Los Angeles. She performs stand-up comedy around town and can be seen frequently performing improv and musical comedy at the Upright Citizen's Brigade theater in LA with Quick & Funny Musicals, Asian AF & South Asian AF, which she also...
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South Asian AF is (maybe?!) the only all South Asian improv team! This team made up of actors, improvisers, writers and comedians from LA perform an improv set based on a special guest interview. They perform regularly at the South Asian AF Show series at the UCB theater in LA.
Will Choi is best known as the creator of the hit Asian American variety show Asian AF at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles & New York. He hosts the NBC News award-winning docuseries "Break Shot with Will Choi," where he interviews up & coming Asian American comedians. Will’s voice...
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