Kairos at David Henry Hwang Theater

Sylvia Kwan

Sylvia Kwan* (she/her) may perhaps be best known for her recurring role as surgical intern Dr. Mabel Tseng on Grey's Anatomy. Her film, List of a Lifetime, in which she starred opposite Kelly Hu and Shannen Doherty, was nominated for a Critics Choice Award as well as an HCA Award (Hollywood Critics Association Television Awards) and NAMIC Vision Award. She has appeared on Station 19, NCIS, and NCIS: LA, along with numerous commercials. In addition to film and television, Sylvia also has extensive onstage credits including most recently a sold out run of King of the Yees at the Tony Award winning Signature Theater, Orangutan in Water By the Spoonful at the Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre Group, and Tong in Vietgone at East West Players for which she was nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Performance. @kwansyl

Gerard Joseph

Gerard Joseph* (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist based out of LA. He received his MFA from UCSD, has trained with Maggie Flanigan in NYC, and is a company member at Antaeus Theater Company, The Road Theater, Ammunition Theater Company, and The Black Creators Collective in LA. Gerard sends special love and thanks to his parents for their tremendous love and support. IG @whatnextg. Reps welcome. LA Theater: She - Antaeus Theater Company; The First Deep Breath - Geffen Playhouse; Everybody - Antaeus Theater Company; 90027: Griffith Park - Antaeus Theater Company; Aching - Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room; Present Black Fathers - Road Theater Company; A Post-Racial USA - Highways Theater; A Taste of Honey - Odyssey Theater. NY Theater: American Lullaby - Manhattan Theater Club; Terror Superhighway - Cherry Lane Theater; VII Deadly Sins - Downtown Theater Festival. Regional Theater: Honky - San Diego Rep; His Girl Friday - La Jolla Playhouse; Blueprints to Freedom - La Jolla Playhouse; Dutchman - Ubuntu Theater Co; Run Mourner, Run- Flashpoint Theater Company; A Matter of Seconds - Walnut Street Theater; Take Me Out - Plays and Players. As Director: Robbin, From the Hood - Road Theater Company; Topdog/Underdog - Black Creators Collective; You - an immersive experience; Secret Society- Alliance Theater

Ren Hanami

Ren Hanami* (she/her) is an award-winning actress, writer, and filmmaker who brings her “Aloha Spirit” to everything she does. Hanámi has appeared in numerous primetime TV series, big budget films and prestigious stage productions. Recent credits include recurring Buffalo Betty guest star, Mavis in Disney’s Bunk’d, and Director Lee in Star Trek: Picard. She is also the voice of Adult Sally in Dreamworks Animation’s Orion and the Dark, Dr. Magita Rose in Netflix’s animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers, and Wakako Okada in AAA video game, Cyberpunk 2077. She is thrilled to be back on the East West Players stage where she began in Company, Performance Anxiety, and Canton Jazz Club. Hanámi is an Asian Hall of Fame Inductee, and serves as its Co-Chair of the Trauma Advocacy Initiatives, as well as longtime champion of Asian Pacific Americans in entertainment as National Chair of the SAG-AFTRA APA Media Committee. @renhanami

William L. Warren

William L. Warren (he/him)a native of Gary, Indiana. He began his journey at the famed Second City Theater Improvisation Workshop in Chicago, IL. William recently appeared in The Pitch (Madnani Theatre), Scintilla (The Road Theatre), The Language Archive (The McCadden Place Theatre), Dismissed (Hollywood Fringe), Sister Act The Musical (Long Beach Playhouse), Isolation Inn (Moving Arts Theatre series), The Soldier’s Tale (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra / The Robey Theatre), August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Long Beach Playhouse), The Little Foxes (Antaeus Theatre), The Fertile River (Baylor University), Periphery (The Hudson Theatre). William is thrilled to be a member of the cast Kairos! William who is also a professional vocalist has performed in various musical productions, toured Canada as a vocalist with the Platters and performed as a backup vocalist with recording artist Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo of The Fifth Dimensions, Stephanie Mills, Deniece Williams and Phillip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire.

Zachary Bones

Zachary Bones (he/him) is thrilled to be a part of his first production with EWP. Zach’s most recent credits include Lateen in the world premiere of Howard Ho’s RESET at Moving Arts Theatre, The Rival in Ghost Road’s production of Super Duper, and Derek in inkwell’s staged reading of The Taste of Emeralds. Zach is also a company member of Coeurage Ensemble, Backroom Shakes LA, and the Illyrian Players. He has also performed on stage at Theatricum Botanicum, Watts Village, Sacred Fools, E3W and more. He currently works as a Teaching Artist for Center Theatre Group, and on weekends you can see him perform as a dinosaur puppeteer for Dinosaur Encounters! at the LA Natural History Museum. Aside from being a performer Zach is also an accomplished visual artist and his work was featured at the Geffen Playhouse for their 22-23 season. You can see his work at ZachBArt.com or on insta @Art_on_my_sleeve

Lisa Sanaye Dring

Jesca Prudencio

Tyree Marshall

Yi-Chien Lee

Zane Wayneright

Ashphord Jacoway

Szu-Yun Wang

Steven Leffue

Brandon Hong Cheng

Irene DH Lee