BEAU SIA 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 Spoken Word Revolution edited by Mark Eleveld ❖ The Spoken Word Revolution Redux edited by Mark Eleveld ❖ Poetry Slam edited by Gary Glazner ❖ The Last American Valentine edited by Derrick Brown ❖ Slam edited by Cecily Von Ziegesar ❖ Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam 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 Jonathan Demme ❖ Hitch directed by Andy Tennant ❖ Rachel Getting Married 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.