contact email: benwang@asia.com
AEA, SAG, AFTRA
5'7" 150 lbs.
Black Hair Brown Eyes Age 45-55 High Baritone
AWARDS
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Best
Actor (“Shirts & Skins”): New
York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2003 |
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Best
Actor (“Shirts & Skins”): Festival
du Court Metrage de Lyon 2002 |
| "Shirts & Skins" premiered on IFC 11/24/03 |
TRAINING
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Meisner
Technique with Joe Anania and Phil Gushee |
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Trudy
Steibl, Maria Cominis Glaudini, Susan Patrick, Lenore Harris, Martha
Bernard, HB Studio |
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Tom Tyrrell, Camille Howard and Brenda Berlin, San Francisco State University |
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Chinese Opera, Taiwan Normal University |
| “No Foreigners Beyond This Point” | ||
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Principal Wang |
Center Stage, Baltimore — d. Tim Vasen |
| “The Joy Luck Club” | ||
| Piano Teacher, Moon Lady | Long Wharf Theatre | |
| “Golden Child” | ||
| Ensemble (U/S Tieng-Bin) | Seattle Repertory Theatre — d. Sharon Ott | |
| “Last Days of Madalyn Murray O’Hair” | ||
| Omolu | Wash & Fold Theatre – d. Samuel Buggeln | |
| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” | ||
| Nick Bottom/Pyramus | Blue Heron Theatre | |
| “Big Hunk O’ Burnin’ Love” | ||
| Dad | Second Generation Productions | |
| “Chikamatsu’s Forest” | ||
| Ino/Natsukiya | Blue Heron Theatre | |
| “The Legend of White Snake” | ||
| The Immortal / Fa Hai | Pan Asian Repertory Theatre | |
| “The Wedding Banquet” | ||
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Old Chen | Village Theatre / Asian Tour – d. John Tillinger |
| “Tokyo Can Can 2” (off-broadway) | ||
| Okada | American Theatre of Actors – d. Yutaka Okada | |
| “Mame” | ||
| Ito | Rockwell Productions – d. Michael Licata | |
| “The Karaoke Show” | ||
| Noah | El Flamingo – d. Diane Paulus | |
| “A Chinaman's Chance” | ||
| Wang (lead) | BAM Majestic Theater | |
| “Kundun” | ||
| General Chang Chin-Wu | Touchstone — d. Martin Scorsese | |
| “Love the Hard Way” (w/ Adrien Brody) | ||
| Chinese Man | Step Beyond — d. Peter Sehr | |
| “Mickey Blue Eyes” (w/ Hugh Grant) | ||
| Chinese Waiter | Warner Bros. — d. Kelly Makin | |
| “God of Vampires” | ||
| Ping (co-starring) | Conquest Pictures — d. Rob Fitz | |
| “Miss Wonton” (Sundance 2001) | ||
| Chung (co-starring) | DreamChamber Films — d. Meng Ong | |
| “Face” (Sundance 2002) | ||
| Mr. Leung | Saving Face Films — d. Bertha Bay-Sa Pan | |
| “Tinsel Town” | ||
| Wiseguy | Tin T. Productions — d. Kenneth Del Vecchio | |
| “Invitation to a Suicide” | ||
| Doctor | Ugly Productions — d. Loren Marsh | |
| “The Sister” | ||
| Mr. Huang | RPM Entertainment — d. Joseph Walsh | |
| “Garmento” | ||
| Shoji | Spanish Moss Productions — d. Michele Maher | |
| “Down on Brighton” | ||
| Mr. Lee | Bootstrap Productions — d. Barry Shurchin | |
| “Homeboy” | ||
| Mr. Chan | Holligan Pictures — d. Dave Gabroe | |
| “You Are Here” | ||
| Chinese Deli-man | Johnny Pictures — d. Jeff Winner | |
| “Dream Land” | ||
| Kim | Silver Spine — d. Bob Hine | |
| “Swan Dive” | ||
| Father | Echo Entertainment — d. Jean Joson | |
| “City of Thieves” | ||
| Mr. Fung | Stolen Pictures — d. Jason Brandenberg | |
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“The Uncertainty Principle” (DGA 2000) |
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| Henry Wu | Work for Food Productions — d. Ted Kim | |
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“The Official Account” (DGA 1999) |
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| Dan Lee (lead) | Kafka Productions — d. Kevin Ke | |
| “Shirts and Skins” | ||
| Michael Lin (lead) | NYU Graduate Film — d. Casper Wong | |
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“Law & Order” |
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| Danny Chin | d. Richard Dobbs | |
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“Law & Order: SVU” |
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| Mr. Chai | d. Juan Campanella | |
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“100 Centre Street” |
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| Emil | d. Sidney Lumet | |
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“Late Night with Conan O’Brien” |
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| numerous* | NBC | |
| * Kung Fu Master, Dr. Kwong, Butler, Head Janitor, Drunk Businessman, Drag Queen Hooker, etc. | ||
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“This Couple” (comedy series) |
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| Won-Fai (lead) | World Television, NYC | |
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Chinese Poetry |
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| “Sacred Spaces” CD | Timescape Music — by Jon O’Bergh | |
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Reader |
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| “Living Language” and “Ultimate Chinese” | Random House | |
| Narrator | ||
| “Beautiful Dreamer” | Chi Mei Museum (Taiwan) | |