collaborators & recommendations
Below are the names of talented BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or disabled creatives with whom I have collaborated and whose work I greatly admire. The excuse is too often given by producers, writers, directors, publishers, agents, casting/hiring teams, and production companies that they “couldn’t find anyone” with a given marginalized identity to include in their work. I have created this list as a way to elevate my fellow artists, to recommend their talents, and to say that there simply is no excuse.
Read Acting Asian, a short nonfiction comic by illustrator and comic artist Talia Dutton; interviewed in 2018
Mia Isabella Aguirre: actor, singer, dancer, model, and photographer
Subin Kara Ahn (Will Bug): musician, actor, director
Laurel Andersen: actor, director, and writer
Daniel Cabrera: actor and writer
Alexandra Capellini: writer and limb differences advocate
Skyler Chin: musician, martial artist, and writer
Katie Colwell: cinematographer, director, and editor
Talia Dutton: illustrator and comic artist
Dani Foster: actor and voiceover artist
Gracie Giffune: filmmaker, director and gaffer
Andrew Giurleo (Davide): musician, performer, and singer-songwriter
Nina Ki: playwright
Ashil Lee: actor, playwright, and sex educator
Nicholas Leung: actor and voiceover artist
Sami Ma: actor
Nicole Martinez: writer and comedian
Regina Renée Russel: actor, writer, and director
Rutuja Sawant: cinematographer and director
Kristin Sgarro: actor, musician, and emcee
Charles Stacy: composer and music producer
Rachel Weekley: actor, clown, and movement director