Jen is a New York City based performer, teacher and writer. She wrote and performs a solo show “Iris” based on the life of the late author Iris Chang (The Rape of Nanking). Stage credits include A Chorus Line (Connie Wong), RANT (Tamayo), and SAFE (Feliz).

Acting training includes The Barrow Group, Upright Citizens Brigade, Atlantic Theater Company School, Improvolution, and Bay Area Theatersports. Stage and comedy experience includes Pan Asian Repertory Theater, Darknight Theater, and the improvisational and sketch comedy troupes Punching Hal and Friends with Deficits. Film and TV credits include We Are New York, Year of the Dragon, Matrix II, and East Broadway.

Dance experience includes Ace Entertainment, Impulse Dance Company, The New England Patriots Cheerleaders, Samba Tropical, and the Bally’s Fitness Dance Team.

She has taught dance and acting at New York University and Sarah Lawrence College and is a 200 hr Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

She lives in Brooklyn, and teaches dance, yoga, and fitness throughout New York City.

Illustration by Anne Sanger