Youth for Asian Theater's 2008 company biographiesAlice Li Amanda Arenas Angela May Chen Anita Wu Anthony Zhou Brandon Cheng Cathy Huang Celine Wu Clarence Tse Courtney Lee Cynthia Chau Debra Fong Diem Vo Elizabeth Chan Frances Yan Jason Xie Justin Song Chan Katherine Mar Kristine Reyes Lianna Hinh Margaret Tsai Mark Lee Matt Kitagawa Matthew Gee Mei-Chi(Mei) Lo Melissa Tsang Nathaniel Dizon Patrick Cervania Rose Johnson-Leiva Saerom Park Stephanie Tong Traci Liang Victoria Sterkina Victoria T. Wong Wendy Kwan Wilson Szeto Yessenia Chiau Alice Li Alice Li, the soon to be freshman in college, reports for duty. As much as she wants this to be interesting, she’s just got off a 12 hour flight and got less than three hours of sleep. So she’ll make this brief and painless — Alice has directed and acted for YFAT for two years already and has return for a third. She also has performed at Lowell and has taken drama classes, so dear God! hopefully she can act to some extent! This year, she has renounced her title of Publicity Director, but this doesn’t mean she won’t help out! Now she’s ready to pass out. top Amanda Arenas Amanda will be entering Lowell High School as a senior this fall. But for now, summer is here and Amanda explodes onto the YFAT stage for her third year! As both an actress and program director, Amanda has a lot on her plate. But it’s nothing she can’t handle so she can do what she loves – have fun with her friends. Amanda lives life day by day not knowing what hot guy (or hot guys, oh my!) will be around the corner. A shopaholic, blogaholic, and workaholic - Amanda is always constantly busy; however, she always tries to make time for everything else. Outgoing, cheerful, and very much a kid at heart, there is no reason for anyone to not stop and say hi. top Angela May Chen Angela May Chen, aka AMC, is returning to YFAT for her 2nd and probably final year. She is a Lowell High School graduate and will be attending Boston University this fall as a Communications major. Her acting experience includes being in Drama and Forensics in high school. She has always wanted to play a crazy, wacky character that's really out there, but has never gotten the chance to, so sometimes she acts pretty crazy and wacky in real life to make up for it. Last year she designed an "orignal" and "speical" YFAT poster with typos that scarred her for life. This year she wrote a play and will be directing for the first time. Her interests include filmmaking, arts and crafts, food, music, swimming, sign language, great ideas, "sausages and happiness," green things and free things. You will most likely see her arrive to rehearsals at the Sunset Rec on a blue bicycle, panting and out of breath, but always ready to work! She thinks most people are like avocados and are all beautiful on the inside. top Anita Wu Despite her nonexistent experience with theater, Anita joined YFAT this year to help out and learn about being a techie before starting her senior year at Lowell, but after appearing organized with color coded scripts, she became the new production manager. During the school year, she lives as an overachieving nerd trying to escape her parental restrictions, and she often ends up sleep deprived and stressed out due to extreme procrastination (but you wouldn't know it from the way she acts). Fearful of her rapidly approaching adulthood (she turns 18 in December), her current goal is to discover her life's passion... or at least a talent more useful than "The Matrix thing" and hula hoop tricks. At any given moment, you can probably find her on her computer, moving around while listening to music, or acting more like a guy than some of her guy friends. top Anthony Zhou With a backpack loaded with bottles of water, binoculars, crayons, cameras, and hand sanitizer, Anthony is always ready for whatever comes at him. In his first year at YFAT, Anthony serves as the videographer, recording anything and everything that deserves attention (except when he forgets to charges his batteries for the umpteenth time.) His hobbies include, but are not limited to, playing tennis, creating movies/music videos, taking pictures, sleeping to excess, and playing Tetris. He will be returning to Lowell High School as a senior this autumn. top Brandon Cheng Brandon Cheng, aka branch, has joined YFAT this year in hopes to further his technical theater experience. Armed with with his 2 years of Lowell Theater Tech experience and all-black clothing, he hopes to bring a new look to YFAT in his first year. top Cathy Huang After being the “baby of YFAT” last year, Cathy has grown to be one of the two Program Directors this year. Still being one of the younger members, she will be entering her junior year at Lowell High School. Cathy never had much theater experience before she joined YFAT, but has now developed a love for performing. Her other loves include her family, friends, music, chatting, shopping, laughing, being healthy, taking pictures, and reading random facts on the back of Snapple caps. top Celine Wu top Clarence Tse Clarence is awesome. He likes anything peach tapioca-related, long walks on the beach, relaxing in a hole at the beach, playing with fire, and making fun of certain shorter people (playfully). He will be spending his last high school summer with YFAT. top Courtney Lee This is Courtney's first year of YFAT involved with the tech crew as a foley artist. She has not written much of a biography for the YFAT Cast and Crew web page. top Cynthia Chau Cynthia began her directorial debut this year. As an incoming senior at Lowell High School, she wishes to fulfill her dreams as a director/writer and finally be able to spread her wings onto the stages at Broadway. When she is not wasting her time daydreaming about these impossibilities, she enjoys photography and taking random buses around the city. Although these hobbies occupy much of her time, she feels as if her life has no meaning. Maybe one day she will find some new hobbies and dreams that will actually heal the world. But as of now, that seems impossible. top Diem Vo Diem's new to yfat, this being her first year. She loves the fact that theater gives her the ability to portray different character roles, temporarily being someone else. Currently 17 years old, an incoming Senior at Balboa High School. Has an appreciation for art. Loves drawing, filmmaking, and creating things from nothing. She enjoys text messaging, exploring the unexplored, eating exotic foods, capturing those rare and spectacular "moments" and keeping them in her pocket. She's prone to breaking and losing things, is a huge procrastinator, and doesn't like cleaning. She hopes to eventually find her purpose in life, travel the world and experience all that is possible and even impossible. top Elizabeth Chan Elizabeth, soon to be one of thousands of freshmen at UC Berkeley, is uber aroused and excited about her second year at YFAT. She believes that life is a play filled with infinite roles to act out - roles we love, roles we despise, roles we are naturally good at, roles we are forced to play, and roles we choose for ourselves. If she could, she would major in etymology (the derivation of a word), fashionology (with an emphasis on blending together the elements of femininity and masculinity), or comedy. But until these majors are invented, her major is undeclared. Her religious view is lacto-ovo vegetarianism, and she might convert to veganism in the near future. Her special talent is making puns and/or making things sound dirty. In her free time, she likes to be artsy-fartsy, exercise, reading cool quotes, multi-task, being cheap - finding ridiculous deals, running into free clothes, and laughing uncontrollably at nothing in particular for long periods of time. She considers herself as a nosy newborn with too many interests and cannot decide on a career path. That's why she loves acting - it allows her to pretend to be anything and everything. She anticipates more laughter in her roles in the times ahead in this play called life. top Jason Xie Hoping to enjoy his summer with his friends, Jason entered his first year of Youth for Asian Theater. After joining, he experienced great joy for drama. Though he has no experience with being a techie what-so-ever, he is determined to try his best and help out any way he can and have fun doing it! top Justin Song Chan Justin Song Chan. December 26, 1989. Second year with YFAT. To-be at University of California, San Diego. Dislikes staying home, and hot weather. Likes meeting new people, writing, music, the night, and the wind. Plays a variety of sports. Sleeps a lot. Makes jam. Optimistic. And dreams to one day become a traveling photojournalist [slash] writer and to complete the novel Sea Sky after retiring around age 30. top Katherine Mar top Kristine Reyes This is Kristine's 3rd year of YFAT. First year directing a play in YFAT; the most difficult of the bunch. It's as if challenges are thrown at her without worry. Well, worry is her middle name, there is no escape. She's been doing theater since 9th grade for shows in YFAT, Lowell High School, and the Dark Room Theater. She will soon be a senior at Lowell. Whoohoo!! top Lianna Hinh top Margaret Tsai Hello everyone. This is Margaret Tsai's second year of YFAT and she is definitely looking forward to having as much fun as she did last year. Because of this theater program, Margaret has come to appreciate performing arts more than ever and is always pumped to set foot on stage. You can see Margaret rocking out at concerts, hiking long distances with her friends, and playing with all the cute little dogs & babies out there. Margaret also loves watching horror movies so if you're ever up for one, call her up. Margaret will be a senior at Lowell High School this year. top Mark Lee This is Mark's second year playwriting and likely his final year directing with YFAT, but he plans to continue writing scripts. He thanks everyone in the organization for the opportunity to express and experiment with his thoughts. He hopes to get involved with his favorite form of acting (improv comedy) in college next fall. Mark's interests include rock and dance music, playing basketball with the neighbors, and celebrating in lavish environments. He tries to act wise and mature, but knows that life is more fun as a silly man-child. top Matt Kitagawa Hi, this is Matt Kitagawa, a to-be senior at Lowell High School of the age of 17 with a birthday on April 22nd. He is one who enjoys serenading the moon and his non-existent girlfriend on his Mitchel acoustic guitar, Twilight. *hint hint* If that's not good enough for you, he enjoys long walks on the beach, through the parks, and (but not limited to) up mountains. He is known for his very sexy, long, dark brown hair, which often seen fluttering through the wind. Despite his slender appearance, he enjoys various meals from afternoon tea and romantic dinners. *double hint hint* Since he's too lazy to keep this up, his other likes are music, movies, song writing video games, writing complete nonsense, being unnecessarily descriptive, wasting other people's time, sleeping, hugging people of both genders, taking long showers, making long lists, and partying. He is also currently working at Pacific Art Camp, only two blocks away from his Tuesday and Thursday rehearsals. (He loves kids too, ladies.) This is his first year with YFAT and first acting experience, not including the Japanese Skits he failed, regardless of being of the Japanese-Chinese, white-washed breed. - At least he's honest. He believes the YFAT people had chosen him based on ultra, super sexiness and is going to be the next George Clooney, type person. He dreams to be a super-dee-dooper rock star, food critic and for general good to be prevalent throughout the world. top Matthew gee Matthew Gee is proud to represent the Thurgood Marshall C/o 2009. He's so proud that sometimes he would be the only person cheering for his class during spirit rallies. He's into philosophy and sometimes he thinks too much about it that he can't really socialize properly. So instead he's more like a dork until you really get to know him. Matthew prefers long snug sittings on park benches over walks through the park and is more nostalgic than sentimental. Yes there's a difference and he would be happy to dispute about it. >=] Oh and his dream is to become a masseur. top Mei-Chi(Mei) Lo top Melissa Tsang I am Melissa Tsang and I am currently a freshmen going to be sophomore at Lowell High School. I like art and food. What kind of art? All kinds: Theater, origami, drawing, ceramics, and photography. top Nathaniel Dizon Nathan Dizon graduated Thurgood Marshall Academic High School 2008. He will be attending San Francisco State University in the Fall, majoring in Nursing. This is his third year with YFAT with no real theater experience prior. When not haphazardly going through work, he is always bettering himself at one of his many hobbies. In his free time he likes to dance, write, sing (when no one is paying attention), juggle, draw, hacky-sack, skate, play guitar, daydream, chill, and change his hair. He plans to become famous through some sort of media. top Patrick Cervania My name is Patrick Cervania. I just recently graduated from Lowell High School, barely surviving four years of academic hell and currently recovering from senioritis. The doctors said I'd be fine by the time classes start at SFSU. (Yay?) This is my first year at YFAT, and I've got to say it's always a pleasure to work with old friends and make new ones in the process. I joined not only because of them but because I love being a part of theater. I've only acted once, and that was for Lowell's version of Les Miserables. I had fun then, but for my first year at YFAT I'll be working behind the scenes- er.. stage. My interests and hobbies? Uhh.. I like kittens..? And long walks on the beach? Just kidding (but I really do like kittens). Well, I'm a singer and a writer, and I'm a gamer whenever I encounter this thing called "free time". Its mysteries still elude my understanding. My goal? The sky. I'll leave that for interpretation. ^_^ top Rose Johnson-Leiva top Saerom Park Hello~ My name is Saerom Park. I am a student at Lowell High School entering my senior year. This is my first year being a part of YFAT and I am very excited. I have never acted before, so this will be a brand new experience for me. I joined for the love of expression, through which everyday thoughts, emotions, and actions can be communicated in a meaningful way. My hobbies include running, drumming, listening to various types of music, ... and starcraft. top Traci Liang top Victoria Sterkina top Victoria T. Wong This is Victoria's second year in YFAT and she is loving it! She is 16 years old and will be entering her senior year at Lowell High School. She enjoys hanging out with the cast and crew of YFAT and expanding her horizons through directing and acting. Outside of YFAT she loves to shop, hang out with family and friends, talk on the phone, and meet new people. She plans on doing her best everyday and enjoying the summer to its fullest. top Wendy Kwan Often mistaken as a freshman on the first day of school, Wendy is actually entering her final year at Lowell High School. She is a couch potato and often sits at home watching dramas with a box of tissue in hand. On nice sunny days, she enjoys goofing around with friends and playing badminton against the wind. This is her first year at YFAT, and she is one of the many technicians. top Wilson Szeto Wilson Szeto doesnt want to write one, but program director cathy huang, is bullying him to write one- so here it is (such a shame to be bullied by the baby of yfat) I am a WANTED man; for the crimes of: sarcasm, clownish behavior, good looks, weird stories, and crazy personality that elicits death threats daily. Recently graduated from Lowell High School, I will be an incoming freshman at UC San Diego this fall. I am proud to be entering YFAT for my 3rd year, and hopes to have a great time and build lasting memories. SEEK ME OUT if you want to learn more: a mere biography does not suffice for real-life encounters. Third level of deception: The feint within the feint within the feint; a lie upon a lie upon a lie. Life is a gamble, a game of chance, a web of lies. The straightest path to the heart of the web is a straight line- spin your own lies and and make others believe them. When the whole world is a lie, make sure your lie is the strongest, make sure your lie becomes the truth. Is this not the truth of acting? top Yessenia Chiau top |
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