Emily Kuroda (Aimika, Beautiful Blessed Child). Selected TV: 7 years as Mrs. Kim in Gilmore Girls, Baymax, All Rise, The Good Doctor, The Resident, Drop Dead Diva (Margaret Cho’s mom), Sequestered, Under One Roof with Flavor Flav, and most recently, The Power on Amazon. Recent Films include Strange World, Kimi, Porcupine, Take the 10 (as Adam Samberg’s Nanny), Party Boat (as Sung Kang’s alcoholic mom), Red, Yellow Face, Sensei and the upcoming Flowervale Street with Anne Hathaway. Theater credits include: TheatreWorks (Happy Pleasant Valley, Tiger Style, Language Archive, Calligraphy), Seattle Rep (The Skin of our Teeth, The Ballad of Yachiyo), South Coast Rep (Tiger Style, Fast Company, Our Town, Ballad of Yachiyo), New York Theatre Workshop (Endlings), Yale Rep (Today is My Birthday), Pan Asian(Brothers Paranormal), American Repertory Theater (Endlings), Page 73 (Today is My Birthday), Actors Theater of Louisville (we, the invisibles), Huntington Theater (Tiger Style, Woman Warrior), Artists at Play (Two Mile Hollow), Alliance Theater (Tiger Style), Sundance Theater Lab (Today is My Birthday, A Cage of Fireflies), Other theaters include: East West Players (over 45 productions), Kirk Douglas, Mark Taper Forum, Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Singapore Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, The Doolittle, LATC, Zephyr, LA Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. Awards: Dramalogue Award: Ikebana, The Maids, Minamata, The Golden Gate, and Visitors from Nagasaki, an LA Commendation for the film, About Love, The Garland Award for Straight As a Line, the Entertainment Today Award for outstanding actor in Chay Yew’s Winter People, an L.A. Ovation award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play for Red (written and directed by Chay Yew), the Playwrights’ Arena Award for Outstanding Contribution to LA Theatre, and the East West Players’ Rae Creevey Award.
