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Lia Chang began her career in the arts working as a petite runway model and an actor.
She added photography and video to the mix in 1989 with LIA CHANG MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTIONS, producing video content for the
web, overseeing the Lia Chang Photography Archive of Notable Asian American Pioneers and creating custom fine art cards from
her botanical portraits. She writes in-depth features with a special focus on culture, style, food and Asian American
issues. She plays Nurse Lia on "One Life to Live".
Lia made
her feature film debut in Berry Gordy's "The Last Dragon" and her stage debut as Liat in a national tour of "South
Pacific" with Barbara Eden and Robert Goulet. She was featured as Joy in the Signature Theater Company's revival
of Sam Shepard's 1965 Obie award winning play, "Chicago" directed by Joseph Chaikin at the Public Theater. Her film and tv credits include: "Wolf". "New Jack City", "Kiss
Before Dying", "King of New York", "Big Trouble in Little China," "Taxman," "As
the World Turns" and "New York Undercover".
Lia studied film and
communications at Hunter College and photography at the International Center of Photography. She
is a National Tropical Botanical Garden Environmental Journalism Fellow, a Scripps Howard New Media Fellow at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, a Visual Journalism Fellow at the Poynter Institute for New Media and a Western
Knight Fellow at USC's Annenberg College of Communications for Specialized Journalism on Entertainment Journalism in the
Digital Age. She is the recipient of the Asian American Journalists Association 2001 National Award for New Media and
the Organization of Chinese Americans 2000 Chinese American Journalist Award. Avenue Magazine named her one of the "One
Hundred Most Influential Asian Americans" in 1997.
Modeling in Fashion Designer Yeohlee's Show at ICP in New York, February, 2005.
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June 25, 2009
New Federal Theatre presents reading of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's Marie Laveau on 6/28
I’m delighted to be working again with Woodie King Jr.’s New
Federal Theatre, acting in a staged reading of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s fascinating play Marie Laveau,
featuring music by Hair composer Galt MacDermot, on Sunday, June 28th at 3pm, at Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd
St. (btwn 10th and 11th Aves) in New York.
In
Walcott’s Marie Laveau, New Orleans madame and Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau attempts to wrest control of her
brothel away from its white financier, unleashing a racial and religious storm that threatens to consume the city. With his
customary feel for character and language, Derek Walcott expertly navigates the territory between two very different New Orleans—one
Christian and the other animist.
Clinton
Turner Davis directs a stellar cast featuring Marie Thomas as Marie Laveau, Arthur Bartow, Trazana Beverley, Thomas Jefferson
Byrd, Gerard Catus, DK Dyson, Stu Richel and Martin Shakar.
In February, I had a blast in a reading of Ed Pomerantz’s A Tune Beyond Us , presented by Woodie
King Jr.’s New Federal Theatre, as part of the Gurfein Foundation/Ntozake Shange Play Reading Series. Shontina Vernon’s
A Lovely Malfunction; Levy Lee Simon’s Smell The Power; Josh Kashinsky’s Heel In The Sand,
Cori Thomas’s Pa’s Hat and Liberian Liberation were among the other plays showcased. Derek Walcott’s
Marie Laveau is the final play in the series this season.
To reserve tickets for Marie Laveau, call 212/353-1176. For more information, please visit www.newfederaltheatre.org.
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Internationally published and exhibited, photographs by Lia Chang are in the permanent collections of
the American Cancer Society, Asian American Federation of New York (AAFNY), Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and the Museum
of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York, the Angel Island Immigration Station and the Chinese Historical Society of America
(CHSA) in San Francisco, and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The Lia Chang Archive also includes Notable
Asian American Pioneers, Asian Pacific Americans in the Workforce, Portraits of New York Chinatown and her fine art collection of Botanical Beauties.
Where
you might have seen Lia's work
Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women's Wear Daily, The Paris Review,
VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Life & Style, OUT, Beauty Fashion, Instyle, The San
Francisco Examiner, AsianConnections.com, New York Times, USA Today and KYODO News.
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