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• "So the Arrow Flies" plays at the Bennett Media Studio May 14-16
  

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• Esther is awarded the 2009 Tanne Artist Recognition Award (www.tannefoundation.org). The Tanne Foundation has interests in filling cultural voids, enriching the artistic experience and broadening horizons for artists and their audiences. Tanne Foundation awards recognize outstanding achievement and are an expression of gratitude to artists for their passion and commitment to their work. Please visit the Awards & Honors section for more information.
• Esther was interviewed on Radio Korea in February 2009 (www.radiokorea.com). Please visit the Press section to listen to the interview.

• Esther Chae has been awarded the "Korean Wave (Hallryu) Asia Star Award 2007" by City of Seoul, Korean Modeling Assoc. and SBS TV Station at the JW Marriott Hotel in Seoul, Korea on January 18th, 2008. It was nationally and internationally televised in Korea, China, Philippines and Japan. Please visit the Awards & Honors for photos from the event.
• Recurring on Young and the Restless (CBS) as Dr. Chae (IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1116119/)
• Film script version of So the Arrow Flies is a finalist for prestigious KOFIC Director’s Lab
• Invited speaker at the World Women’s Forum in Seoul, Korea (keynote: Mia Farrow)
  

  With Min Jin Lee (Award winning novelist Free Food for the Millionaire)

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  Invited to North Korea as part of USC's NetKAL leadership program www.netkal.org
  
• NetKAL Fellows at the Presidential Bluehouse, Seoul, S. Korea

• Please view here Esther's article in Joonang Ilbo (Korea's NY Times) Feb 2008.
  (article link (Korean) , English translation in pdf )
• Esther has been accepted into USC's prestigious NetKAL fellowship for Korean American Leaders (www.netkal.org).
  She will be attending conferences in NY, DC, Seoul and North Korea throughout the year and consult with the Kennedy Center and The National Theater of Korea's Opera CHEONG 's performance, slated for 2009.
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  Esther was invited as a guest artist by USC's Professor of Theatre Valina Hasu Houston to the Visions and Voices lecture series November 2007
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  Esther is part of the LA cast for Tony Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang's world premiere of YELLOWFACE at the Mark Taper Forum. This production is co-produced with NYC's Joseph Papp Public Theater and East West Player's and opens May 20th, 2007
• Esther was invited back to NYC to teach at New York University's Performance Studies Department, TISCH Graduate School.

  Character gender swapped Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, year end student final performance at Joseph Papp Public Theater.

  Esther with mentor Professor Anna Deavere Smith and Performance Studies students. (click image to enlarge)

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  She Conducted vocal and physical warm-ups, session tutorials and directed all students' theatre scenes. (Fall/Winter 2006)
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  Panelists also included (L-R) Leo Chu (VP Disney), Eugnie Chan (Award-winning Playwright), Yul Kwon (Winner of Survivor), Suzanne Whang (Host & Comedian) and Chris Lee ( Exec. for Superman Returns)
  Esther was invited as a panelist to the "The Rising Power of Asian Americans in Media," an event sponsored by the Yale Asian American Alumni Association (March, 2007).
• Esther played Mina in the world premiere of Distant Shore at the Kirk Douglas Theater.

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  "Esther Chae offers some of the more humorous moments in the play, only to break your heart in the end. Sometimes unrecognizable, she played several servants in the first act as a comedic catalyst while in the second act, she plays a transvestite martyr dying of AIDS who later sacrifices her life to make Zul’s better." -- Asia Pacific Arts/UCLA
  
  "The engaging Esther K. Chae as prostitute/terrorist bomber Mina, a minor character from Act 1 emerges as full-blown characters in Act 2." --Hollywood Reporter
  
  "Beautiful Esther K. Chae, a butterfly-like maid in Act One, is a tragic transsexual in Act Two, delightful in a thinly written part that needs more motivation" -- Curtain Up
  
  "The inclusion of a transvestite suicide bomber with AIDS (talented Esther K. Chae) is too much contrived freight. Ultimately, the greatest distinction of "A Distant Shore" is its strength as a showcase for actors tackling widely divergent parts." --Variety
  
• Esther is featured in October's issue of Korean magazine AnAn. Please visit the Press section to view the article.
• Esther is the L.A. correspondent and associate producer for the new entertainment show Cinema AZN. It launches this November and can be viewed on AZN cable channel.
• Esther will be seen as guest lead Dae in ABC's new drama series Night Stalker airing Nov. 10th and Nov.17th, Thursdays at 9 pm in episode "The Source" and "The Sea".
• Esther booked a recurring role as the Medical Examiner on FOX's new pilot "The Inside" which will air Friday nights starting March.
• Esther was invited by her alma mater, Yale University as a guest speaker on the panel "In the Spotlight: Asian Americans in Film, Theater and Print" along with Christopher Lee(Univ. of Hawaii), Sunil Kuruvilla (playwright and director) and James Dao (Washington correspondent, The New York Times) www.yale.edu/aacc
• Esther was part of the wonderful cast of "Hiroshima" along with the honorable Tyne Daly, Ruby Dee and Roscoe Lee Brown. This radio drama, which aired on KPFK was awarded the Golden Reel Special Merit Award for Best Radio Drama Production 2004.

Download Media Kit (Headshot, Resume & Published articles)

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Korean

Note: The pdf content in both of the media kits differ.