The OG YOLK GenerAsian Next Podcast

DAVID HENRY HWANG, presently Tony nominated for YELLOW FACE for 2025 best dramatic play., an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. He has one Tony Award (M. Butterfly) and two other nominations (Golden Child and Flower Drum Song). Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and So...

Miranda Kwok is a writer-actor-producer best known as the Creator, Showrunner and Executive Producer of the U.S. television series adaptation "The Cleaning Lady," based on the original Argentine series "La Chica Que Limpia." Produced by Warner Bros. and FOX Entertainment, Kwok developed "The Cleaning Lady" for the Fox Network. Previously, Kwok served as a Writer/Supervising Producer for "The 100" on the CW Network, for seasons 4-7....

Alan Pao is the CEO of TUNNEL POST the Santa Monica based full service post-production company. Having guided over a couple hundred films through various phases of the post-production process, Alan has become one of the foremost experts in the post industry. Over the last decade, Alan has also produced and executive produced over 200 feature films spanning various genres. Some of the upcoming titles include Roger Donaldson’s spy th...

Olivia Cheng is a dynamic actress and activist born in Edmonton, Alberta to working class, Cantonese-speaking immigrant parents. It was they who helped co-found the Edmonton Chinese Bilingual Education Association's Mandarin program within the city's public school system to which Olivia credits for her ability to speak Mandarin and instilling in her a reverence for her culture. She enrolled in her first acting class at age six, an...

Film debuts May 13 on VOD, and will be in limited theaters tba! Thank you to Pender PR, and the Lucky Star cast and crew for making such a meaningful, universally relatable film. We look forward to seeing a GILLIAN McKERCHER film at https://www.kinosum.com/ and @kinosum . TERRY CHEN and OLIVIA CHENG are known by their numerous television and films. @terrykelichen - Last of Us (season 1), Wild Card, Expanse, Sight (2023), The Lake, ...

OG YOLK welcomes GILBERT CHEAH served as Associate Publisher of A Magazine for 7 years. In fact, when Larry Tazuma was Editor of Yolk Magazine, they met in Hawaii at the 1995 Asian American Journalists Association convention, and (according to Gilbert) even took pictures together with several other A Magazine staff. In this holiday season episode recorded in Singapore, Larry was happy to reunite with him and reminisce about those p...

We have our 41st episode. Welcome, our Opera Singers The Verdi Chorus concert this April 26-27!**note: I meant 5th amendment. . . and we had to rush this interview for the space time restrictions, apologies for the urgency! Renowned  Filipino baritone ROBERTO PERLAS GOMEZ, is one of the featured guest Soloists this Spring for the Verdi Chorus. He made his international debut as Marcello in La bohème with the Shanghai Opera. And the...

ALFRED HSING is an American Actor, Producer, Director, Martial Artist, and Stuntman/Coordinator. After over a decade of intensive training in both America and China, Hsing won the first American gold medal in wushu taolu history at the 2009 World Wushu Championships held in Canada. He has been a Stuntman in many films with Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Jackie Chan, etc! He also stunt coordinated The Legend of the White Dragon and acted i...