Alex is a software engineer and lighting designer with over 15 years experience in theatre, dance and live events in the SF Bay Area and Boston. This year, in addition to running the lighting design at BAICD, he's started up the lighting design apprenticeship program, training the next generation of culturally competent lighting technicians of color.

Jimmy is a Music Producer, Singer, and Songwriter based in Walnut, California. An alumnus of Musicians Institute Hollywood, Jimmy holds degrees in Recording, Keyboard Performance, and Music Business. Further enriching his academic portfolio, he participated in a two-year foreign exchange program at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, specializing in composition. Throughout his illustrious career, Jimmy has collaborated with a diverse array of artists and musicians on a multitude of international projects. Notably, he has made significant contributions to a Buddhist Organization known worldwide by composing ceremonial mantra music that has been showcased in stadiums globally. Furthermore, Jimmy played a pivotal role as the music director and composer for Hong Kong’s pioneering and one of the largest bodybuilding competition, marking a milestone in the region’s entertainment and sports industry. His career is marked by a continuous quest for innovation, pushing the boundaries of music by experimenting with new elements and challenging traditional musical norms. This drive is exemplified by his collaboration with the Min Bridges project alongside the Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers, showcasing his commitment to creating art that transcends conventional boundaries and promotes cultural integration.

Rebs Chan is a playwright, dramaturg, sound designer and actor based in the Bay Area and Metro Detroit. Originally from Howell, MI, they recently graduated from Kalamazoo College with honors in Theatre Arts and completed a year teaching abroad in Taiwan on a Fulbright grant. Across their artistic work, their prime objective is intersectionality- creating and supporting theatre that is intersectional in both representation, language and artistic form. They are currently Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow. They also serve as a reader for Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons in New York. Rebs has written and presented original work through Yun Theatre, Festival Playhouse, Queer Theatre Kalamazoo, the Theatre Kalamazoo New PLayfest, and the Asian American Music Video Fest.

Laura Lowe Uyeki is a producer, writer and artist based out of the Bay Area in Orinda, California. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2017, with a B.A in Theatre Arts and a minor in English. She has been involved in the arts in various ways since she was a little kid, and as a result has a career that spans over a decade long. Her previous experience includes being a theatrical designer, producer, and assistant stage manager, as well as being the co-founder of Rainy Day Artistic Collective (an independent virtual theater company based out of Washington State). Although her background mostly consists of theater, she is always passionate and excited to share her experiences and enthusiasm for the arts in all its forms, including this showcase. She hopes you enjoy the show, and that you come say hi in person at the box office!

Jordan is a Bay Area native and former ballerina, who trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently a researcher of dance history, with a specific focus on ballet and modernism in the interwar period. As a proud Chinese-American she is interested in exploring themes of identity, heritage, and tradition through embodiment, as well as understanding how those conceptions serve as platforms for dance to become more prominent in social understandings of community and diaspora.

Kevin Wong is a Queer Asian-American experimental artist from San Francisco, California with a background in contemporary-modern, hip-hop, and Chinese dance techniques. After receiving his MFA in Experimental Choreography from UC Riverside, Kevin continues to engage his communities through public performances, residencies, and workshops. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Flying Angels Chinese Dance Company, an advisor for Collective Faction (a collegiate dance team in Riverside), and a collaborator with his childhood best friend Matthew Wong at various artist-in-residence programs while teaching various adult and youth classes across the Bay Area.

Megan Cheung is an artist and producer based in San Jose of the South Bay Area. She graduated from San Jose State University in 2023 with a major in Animation/Illustration with previous production and design experience on various films and games. Since then, she continues on as a freelance illustrator, aiming to inspire children's creative minds through her art.

Naomi (Qianxun) started learning traditional chinese dance in elementary school, where she got to develop flexibility and coordination for dance. Later she became a ballet student and was classically trained at École supérieure de Ballet du Québec for 3 years in Montreal, Canada. After her ankle injury, she carried on her dance life by exploring a new form of dance – hiphop. Currently, she is an active contemporary dancer in the UC Berkeley dance community, where she seeks to create choreography merging chinese dance, ballet and street dance together.

Josie is the founder of Sweeney Lens Productions, and has always had an interest in writing and photography. This evolved into a Film & Video Production degree with an English Minor from the University of Memphis. Josie lives in Oakland, California. They are currently working on a science fiction series that is equal parts Phillip K. Dick and Douglas Addams. Josie has work experience ranging from Elvis Presley's Graceland, Memphis restaurants such as Central BBQ, and the Video Technician in charge of all NDI products (BirdDog, PTZOptics and accessories).