Actor

Director

Rent is a groundbreaking musical based loosely on Puccini’s La bohème, about falling in love, finding your voice, and living for today. Winner of the Tony® for Best Musical – and one of only 10 musicals ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Rent has become a cultural phenomenon, with songs that rock and a story that resonates. It follows “525,600 minutes” (one year) in the life of a group of impoverished youths struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of AIDS. How they pursue their dreams provides a narrative thread that is at once exuberant, passionate, and joyous.

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Rent

South Bay Musical Theatre

Vichet Chum’s captivating new play revolves around two sisters who have been at odds since their birth. Now, tasked with the responsibility of organizing their strong-willed, quick-witted mother's affairs, they must also come to terms with their family's Cambodian heritage, intricately woven into the complexities of their American present. Through a mix of irreverent humor and heartfelt moments, the story delves into the bonds formed by history, spirituality, and the power of laughter.

Bald Sisters

San Jose Stage

Taking its inspiration from two viral incidents around cultural appropriation and food [Chef Tyler Akin’s how-to video for Bon Appetit, “PSA: This is How You Should Be Eating Pho,” and Dan Pashman of The Sporkful’s suggestion that you could improve bibimbap using a bundt pan], Dustin Chinn says he “followed the rabbit hole” and wrote “a triptych about the ownership and authorship of food following the journey of Vietnamese noodle soup.” This biting comedy spans centuries, continents, and cultures in its three-part vignette structure. Beginning in 1880s Hanoi, the capital city of French Indochina, where a Vietnamese cook finds herself in the kitchen of aristocratic French settlers. Then in 1999, a century later, in Vietnam, where American diners get their first taste of the local cuisine. Then finally, in present-day, gentrifying Brooklyn, where the simmering argument around culture, ownership, and authenticity comes to a roaring boil.

Colonialism is Terrible, But Pho is Delicious

Aurora Theatre

Inspired by the true childhood experience of TV/film actor and social media icon George Takei (Mr. Sulu on Star Trek), ALLEGIANCE tells the story of the Kimura family, whose lives are upended when they are forced to leave their Salinas, California home following the events at Pearl Harbor, and join 120,000 other Japanese-Americans in internment camps dotted around America. Sam Kimura seeks to prove his patriotism by fighting for his country in the war, but sister Kei fiercely protests the government’s treatment of her people. An uplifting testament to the power of the human spirit, ALLEGIANCE follows the Kimuras as they fight between duty and defiance, custom and change, family bonds and forbidden loves.

Nicole Tung

Actor, Director

Events

Sep 30 - Oct 21, 2023

Rent · South Bay Musical Theatre

Sep 13 - Oct 8, 2023

Bald Sisters · San Jose Stage Company

Nov 4 - Dec 1, 2022

Colonialism is Terrible, But Pho is Delicious · Aurora Theatre Company

22 - 24 Apr, 2022

Allegiance · Palo Alto Players

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