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Esther K. Chae
Esther K. Chae is an award-winning actor/writer based in Los Angeles and New York. Her artistic work has been seen and heard in the US, Korea, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Italy and Russia. Her numerous credits as a performer include TV shows NCIS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, 24, The Shield, Night Stalker; and theatre stages such as Yale Repertory Theater, La Mama, Mark Taper Forum/ Kirk Douglas Theater, P.S. 122 and Harvard/A.R.T.
Chae's performances have been lauded as "talented" (Variety), "engaging" (Hollywood Reporter) - and "the willowy actress [with] subtle physicality" (LA Times). Her life in Hollywood has been featured in a Korean Broadcasting Station (KBS) documentary.
Her most recent solo performance So the Arrow Flies, about a North Korean spy and the FBI Agent who hunts her down, was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ("a powerful and compelling script... fascinatingly gripping" - ThreeWeeks Magazine), Ars Nova Theater Festival (NY) , World Women's Forum (Seoul), TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference of which she is an inaugural fellow, CUNY's Martin Segal Theater and NYU's Performance Studies. The play is being adapted into a film script incorporating live performance and animation.
Chae graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Acting, the University of Michigan with an MA in Theater Studies, and Korea University.
Chae's honors include:
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2010 Asian American Trail Blazer Award by NYS Governor Paterson |
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2010 University of Michigan Emerging Artist Alumni Award &
King/Chavez/Parks Visiting UM Professorship |
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2007 Korean Wave Asian Star Award |
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2011 NEWS
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Esther booked an ABC Family series regular role for the Untitled Brenda Hampton Project. Her on screen family consists of husband (Vic Chao) and daughter (Valerie Tian). Fingers crossed for series pick up!
2010 NEWS
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Italian newspaper Attualità interviews Esther Chae. Read it now
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Esther is invited to perform her show "So the Arrow Flies" and teach a workshop at the TILT transgressive Imola Laboratory Theatre in Italy.
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Esther received the 2010 Emerging Alumni Award from University Of Michigan's Department of Theater and Dance. She also performed her show "So the Arrow Flies" at the venue on Friday, Oct 15. For photos from the event, please refer to the Awards & Honors section.
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"So the Arrow Flies" plays at the Greenberg Theatre on Friday, July 16
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Esther is profiled on NTDTV in their story Korean American Superstar: Esther Chae. Please visit the Press section for the video.
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Esther's Notes from Nigeria is published in THE AUDACITY OF HUMANITY EBOOK page 15. Read it here.
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Esther speaks at the Asian American Writers Workshop on May 21 about her experiences in Nigeria. Watch the video now.
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Esther K. Chae honored 2010 APA Heritage TrailBlazer Award by NYC Governor David Paterson. For photos from the event, please visit the Awards & Honors section.
2009 NEWS
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Esther was in one of the inaugural 2009 TED Fellows and was invited to the prestigious TED University stage to perform an excerpt of her solo piece So the Arrow Flies. For a video from the event, please visit the Awards & Honors section.
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