EDUCATION ❖ BFA from NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program at The Tisch School of The Arts

POETRY BOOKS ❖ A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge

❖ The Undisputed Greatest Writer Of All Time

SPOKEN WORD ALBUMS ❖ Attack! Attack! Go!

❖ Dope and Wack

ANTHOLOGIES ❖ The Revolution edited by Mark Eleveld

❖ The Spoken Word Revolution Redux edited by Mark Eleveld

❖ edited by Gary Glazner

❖ The Last American Valentine edited by Derrick Brown

❖ Slam edited by Cecily Von Ziegesar

❖ Presents on Broadway

❖ Poetry Nation edited by Regie Cabico, Todd Swift, Bob Holman

❖ Heights of The Marvelous edited by Todd Colby

❖ Crossing State Lines edited by Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes

❖ Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera

❖ Local/Express: Asian American Arts and Commmunity 90s NYC edited by Curtis Chin, Terry Hong, and Parag Rajendra Khandhar

THEATER as a writer/ performer:

❖ Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway

❖ Norman Lear’s Declaration of Independence Road Trip ❖ Fish Out of Water as a director:

❖ Midnight Makeout Session written by Dante Basco as a Lyricist:

❖ Krunk Fu Battle Battle written by Qui Nguyen, music by Marc Macalintal, directed by Tim Dang as a host:

❖ Brave New Voices Finals 2011 at The War Memorial Opera House (SF,CA)

❖ Urban Word NYC Finals 2009 at The Apollo (NY, NY)

❖ 2005 Asian Excellence Awards at Lincoln Center

TELEVISION ❖ Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO (All 6 Seasons)

❖ ESPN X Games 2000

❖ Brave New Voices

❖ Showtime! At The Apollo

❖ Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices on HBO (Both Seasons)

DOCUMENTARIES ❖ SlamNation directed by Paul Devlin

❖ The Drums Inside Your Chest Vol. 1-3 directed by Stephen Latty

❖ Spitting Ink directed by Ralph de Haan and Lars Siemens

ACTING ❖ Slam directed by Marc Levin

❖ The Manchurian Candidate directed by

❖ Hitch directed by Andy Tennant ❖ directed by Jonathan Demme

❖ Hits directed by David Cross

❖ Ricki and The Flash (in pre-production) directed by Jonathan Demme

❖ Paint It Black ( in pre-production) directed by Amber Tamblyn

YOUTH MENTORSHIP ❖ Workshop facilitator for Brave New Voices (2006-2012)

❖ Artistic Director for the LA based youth literacy non profit Get Lit (2010-2011)

❖ Writer-in-residence for Youthspeaks (2001-2002)

GRANTS AND AWARDS • Creative Work Fund Grant (2001-2002)

• California Arts Council Grant (2001-2002)

• 2004 Jury Prize for Best Alternative Show for Fish out of water at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen

• 2008 KCET Local Hero Award for the Asian Pacific American community

• 2003 Special Event Tony for Def Poetry Jam on Broadway