About The Artists

Andy Danh (Actor/Singer/Musician) is a champion of new work including recent world premieres of Scenes and Teachings from the Life of Christ, an oratorio by Sarah Dawson, and Daughter of the Samurai, an opera by Yui Kitamura. Notable collaborations include Baayork Lee’s National Asian Artist Project, 52nd Street Project, BRICLab, The Daughter’s Collective, and writer/composer Marcus Yi. Favorite credits include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Theater of the Stars, Kansas City Starlight, North Shore Music Theatre, Wolf Trap, and national tours of  The King and I and Miss Saigon. www.andydanh.com IG/Twitter: @en_dedans

Katie Lee Hill: Thank you Yangtze Rep & Kaela! TV: Servant (AppleTV+), Succession (HBO), New Amsterdam (NBC), The Other Two (MAX), Fleishman is in Trouble (FX), The Changeling (AppleTV+), Tales of the City (Netflix), Law & Order: OC (NBC), High Maintenance (HBO). Film: The Spongebob Musical: Live on Stage! (Nickelodeon), Our House (premiered at CUFF). Upcoming: Tow (independent starring Rose Byrne), Dying for Sex (FX), 3 Women (STARZ), Our Rite (Form & Pressure Films). Various NY theater. Stream her band, Baby Chemist. 

Cynthia Yiru Hu 胡宜汝 is a multilingual actor originally from China, with a background in dance, martial arts, and movement theatre. Favorite credits include The Discarded (Rattlestick Theater); Wǔ Wèi (Yangyze Repertory); His Is A Cage (Lenfest Center); American Standard (Ren Gyo Soh); An Infinite Ache (Little Red Light Theatre); Fifth Planet and The Man Who Turned Into a Stick (ASDS Rep); The Giving Tree (Unfix NYC); Film: Ten Months; If I Make it to the Morning. Cynthia relishes every opportunity she gets to work with AAPI and immigrant artists. MFA Acting: The Actors Studio Drama School. cynthiayiru.com

Victoria Linchong  is a Taiwanese-American director, writer, actor, and producer working in both theater and film. A New York City native, she began working in theater at the age of fourteen. Her early credits as a teenage actress include a featured role in Jeff Weiss' Obie Award winning HOT KEYS at Naked Angels. Recent theater roles include the Good Fairy in Sleeping Beauty by Mat Fraser directed by Julie Atlas Muz (Abrons Art Center), a Dandy Minion in Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Berliner Festspiele), and her one-person play Dispossessed (HERE Arts Center). Victoria is also a burlesque performer who has performed throughout Europe. From 2016-2019, she directed and hosted the Full Moon Cabaret, a monthly burlesque show in Berlin, which toured to the VAULT Festival in London and the Edinburgh Fringe (★★★★★ The Wee Review).  She is currently hosting the web series Viva Lamore's Forgotten History. 

Sara Rahman is a Brooklyn-based actor best known for her work in developmental theatre, voice-over, and film/tv. Recent credits include: No One Plays Badminton in America (Playwrights Realm), Fish Meat (Frontera Reading Series (and soon to be at SheNYC this summer!)), Sinister Sisters (Breaking & Entering Rooftop Series), Return of a High School Gangster (English dub), Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (VO), Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (VO), Maggie (film), Party Favor (film). When she is not on stage or in a booth, she's cuddling her cats Cup & Boop.

Cameron Toy (they/them) is a musician/writer/sound designer based in Queens. They have worked on music arrangements for Gay Church (2023 Littlefield) and Ambition: The Female American Serial Killer Musical (2016 Ars Nova’s ANTFest). They have worked as a composer and sound designer for I Can’t Help Myself (2022 Rule of 7X7), Call Out Culture (2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), Asher Rhys Got Married Too Young (2017 Fresh Fruit Festival), Breakfast (2016 New York Short Film Festival) and the interactive graphic novel Half Lives or, Ernest Oliver Wineberg’s Book of Necessary Knowledge (2022 Undiscovered Countries Press). Cameron also plays in the bands Skeeter de Milo, Tacono Gate, and Canine Wedding, the latter’s music also written and produced by them.

About Yangtze Rep

For over 30 years, Yangtze Repertory Theatre (Chongren Fan 范崇人, Artistic Director; Sally Shen 申羽, Executive Director) has been producing and presenting theatrical works in the Greater New York area. Yangtze Rep celebrates artists who are global citizens and provides a platform to showcase their talents. Their past and present productions have served as an entry point for their audience, regardless of their cultural upbringing, to see the world through a contemporary Chinese lens. Since 2017, they have been focusing on supporting artists from the AAPI immigrant community and www.yzrep.org

About Project YZ

Project YZ is Yangtze Rep’s AAPI Artist Residency program. Launched in 2022, Project YZ is focused on supporting the artistic journey of each resident artist with a process that values open dialogue, honest conversation, and bold endeavors. During the one-year residency, each resident artist receives a grant of $10,000 and Yangtze Rep connects Project YZ artists with other collaborators, offers research support, and facilitates interviews and focus groups. Dramaturgical development and discussion with Yangtze’s artistic staff take place throughout the residency.