Cast

 

Tina Chen

"Ellen"

Tina Chen is a Golden Globe®, Emmy® and Drama Desk nominee. Tina's films include The Hawaiians, playing opposite Charlton Heston, for which she received a Golden Globe® nomination; Alice's Restaurant (dir. Arthur Penn), opposite Arlo Guthrie; Three Days of the Condor, opposite Robert Redford; the award-winning indie film, Face, directed by Bertha Bay-Sa Pan; and Almost Perfect playing opposite Kelly Hu, Roger Rees and Edison Chen. Tina has guest starred on numerous TV shows and has played opposite such actors as Max von Sydow, Anthony Quinn, Burt Reynolds, Ernest Borgnine, Wayne Rogers, and David Carradine. Tina was nominated for an Emmy® for her performance in the CBS Playhouse special, The Final War of Olly Winter opposite Ivan Dixon.

On stage, Tina has played leading roles in many productions on and off Broadway including Empress of China, Comfort Women, The Shanghai Gesture, The Joy Luck Club, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Arthur & Leila, The Year of the Dragon, and David Henry Hwang's Family Devotions. Tina has directed plays at various theaters in New York, including Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s production of Fairy Bones starring Lucy Liu in her stage debut. Tina co-produced the Broadway production of the Peter Nichols play, Passion, starring Frank Langella, and received a Drama Desk nomination as part of the producing team of the Broadway production of The Rink by Terrence McNally, starring Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli.

Her talk, Heroes of History: Legacy of My Chinese Family, with 157 pictures, is about three generations of her mother's family and their contributions to the history of China.

Tina is also a composer. Four of her songs were recently presented at The Mirror Repertory Company in Greensboro, VT: a Christmas carol called This Tree ( lyrics by Ruth Wolff), which had its premiere with the Hong Kong Children's Choir at its Silver Jubilee; a Hanukkah song called Eight Nights (lyrics by YiLing Chen-Josephson); Words Never Said (lyrics by Diane Winslow); and Mother Life (lyrics by Tina Chen).

In the beginning of her acting career, Tina simultaneously did research in the Serology & Genetics Lab of the New York Blood Center. She also started Food Liberation, one of the first health food stores in NYC.

Tina is a volunteer reader to the sight-impaired at the Lighthouse International. She is also on the National Council of the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Over the course of her career, Tina has received among others, the following awards: Urban Stages 25th Anniversary Award for Artistic Brilliance, Women’s Projects Women of Achievement Award, Girl Scouts Woman of Distinction Award and the Anna Mae Wong Award given by Asian Fashion Designers of LA.

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Albert M. Chan

"Andrew"

Albert M. Chan is a Chinese-Canadian actor and filmmaker based in the United States. Albert's film and TV roles include Gotham (FOX), Julia (HBO Max), New Amsterdam (NBC), Love Life (HBO Max), Girls (HBO), Patriots Day, 30 Rock (NBC), Law & Order SVU (NBC), Body of Proof (ABC), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The Makeover (ABC), and Brotherhood (Showtime). He has been cast by directors such as Spike Lee, Peter Berg, Greg Mottola, Henry Bromell, and Mark Waters to act opposite Kevin Bacon, Helen Hunt, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Justin Long, Larry David, Cybill Shepherd, and Mariska Hargitay.

As a filmmaker, Albert is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant and a finalist for the prestigious Roy W. Dean Film Grant, awarded to films that are "unique and make a contribution to society... stories that can heal and enrich our lives." He wrote, directed, and produced his first film, Fate Scores, which was recognized by the prestigious National Film Board of Canada. He directed and starred in his follow-up film, The Commitment, which screened at over 50 film festivals on six continents and won multiple awards, most notably edging out Oscar®-nominated Moonrise Kingdom to win a 2013 NASW Media Award. Albert's third film, Descendants of the Past, Ancestors of the Future, stars Golden Globe®, Emmy®, and Drama Desk nominee Tina Chen, and won Best Screenplay and Best Actress at the 2015 NYC Downtown Short Film Festival. His latest narrative film, Welcome to the World, was shot on an iPhone in one continuous 7-minute take for less than $140, and has so far screened in over 50 festivals on six continents. Albert also directed, edited, and produced the documentary MAP for Health: 25 Years of Asian Pride, about a group of young people who banded together to help the largely neglected Asian-Pacific Islander population during the AIDS crisis in the early 90's, which premiered at the 2018 Boston Asian American Film Festival.

Albert is currently developing science-based feature projects including the Black List Endorsed script Incarnations as a writer and The Elucidation of Dr. Park as a creative producer, the latter a collaboration with writer/director Alice Cox Neff.

www.AlbertMChan.com
www.ChanalProductions.com

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