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Carol Lee

Carol first fell in love with acting in the 4th grade when she got the lead role in her class play, which started her on the path to becoming...a sorta working artist? She is the ditziest smart person you will ever meet and is as comfortable as the vapid valley girl as she is as the nerdy Asian girl...but has the most fun being the bitchy girl.
 

Outside of Model Majority, Carol can be seen as Luanne in Banana Zakary (Point Lookout Film Festival Best Concept, Grove Film Festival Best Film), co-starring as Karen Chang on the web-series Bougie Betty, as Penny on another web-series, Math Warriors, or looking annoyed and shocked in the background of random TV shows. She at times freelances as a video editor, director, and producer.  Carol also bakes pastries, works as a professional stand in for people much more famous than her, and wants to pet all the puppies and kittens.

 

IG: @carolleeshoots | imdb.me/carollee

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Veronica Dang

Veronica Dang

Founder and Executive Producer of Model Majority. Veronica is an award-winning director/actor/writer and comedian. You may have seen her on TV or teaching people about Yellow Fever at comedy clubs around NYC. She loves rehabbing rescue dogs and hates guys who tell her to smile. Check out her internationally acclaimed webseries Subway: The Series, which is on Marie Claire's list of "Webseries You'll Want to Ditch Netflix for" www.SubwayTheSeries.com

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For more about Veronica go to www.iVeronicaDang.com

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Kevin Chew

Father of two Park Slope girls, Kevin spends his nights watching action movies and working on his autobiography, Secret Asian Man: The Life of a Token Asian Actor and his blog, "inside the brain of Chewness."  He dreams of one day becoming Keanu Reeves.  Acting credits include: The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Ray Donovan, and Step Up 3D. (SAG-AFTRA)

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Lindsay Burton

Lindsay Burton was born and raised 15 minutes away from the Bachelor mansion. Her online content has been shared by Josh Groban and Rosie O’Donnell, featured multiple times on WhoHaha, and brought her to VidCon as a guest speaker. Beyond her online work, she has trained with UCB, Second City, The Groundlings, and iO West in improv and sketch writing. Recent stage credits include Puffs at the Hillcrest Center of the Arts. You can see her perform and write with Wiggle Room at the Pack Theater in Los Angeles.

 

Follow her at @lindsaykburton on Instagram for more!

 

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Jeremy Rafal

Jeremy Rafal is excited to be back performing with Model Majority. He was born in the Philippines, raised in Hawaii, and now based in New York City as an actor, musician, writer, director, and educator.  He was last seen this summer as The Kralahome from The King & I (Interlakes Theatre) and in Heart Strings (Atlantic Theater).  His favorite roles include Philip the Bastard in King John, Hastings in Richard III, and performing his own solo shows The Boy from Bantay and Funhouse Funk.  He has also appeared on film, TV, and several commercials.  Besides being an actor-musician, Jeremy is also in linguistics, jump roping, and CrossFit. 

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www.jeremyrafal.com

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Nivedita Kulkarni

Nivedita Kulkarni is a writer, actress, comedian, and entrepreneur based in New York City. She has acted in shows on Comedy Central, Netflix, NBC Peacock, and in many commercials. She was Executive Producer on the Sundance Audience Award-winning film Shayda, which was co-produced by Cate Blanchett and sold to Sony Pictures Classics. As a comedian, she teaches sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC. She posts daily characters and impressions on social media -- TikTok: @nikkihaleyofficial & Instagram: @KindofIndian. She also founded and runs the startup Nuva.io, a networking platform for women in the entertainment industry. Nivedita is a proud alum of the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, and she is originally from Chicago.

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Kento Morita

Kento Morita is a comedian, actor, and voice actor based in New York City. He has headlined at Tokyo Comedy Club, performed at the Asian Comedy Festival, SketchFest Seattle, and Toronto Sketchfest. He performs with UCBNY’s house sketch comedy team Baby Todd, and at Second City New York. His writing has appeared on The Onion, and Clickhole. And his voice was featured on Rise of the Ronin, The Story Pirates Podcast, and The Cat in the Hat Cast. He’s also starred on Amazon Prime’s Christmas in Miami. @kento.nyc

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Juliette Lin

Juliette Lin is a Taiwanese-Chinese American comedian, actress, and writer based in Los Angeles California. She was most recently seen as the lead in Vice at The Hollywood Fringe Festival, which was nominated for Best Drama and Best Tech Innovation. She graduated from the University of Southern California from the Business and Cinematic Arts Program and is passionate about telling stories about strong Asian women and the complexities of human existence.

When she's not pursuing her craft, you can find her making paper crafts, volunteering through School on Wheels, and reading 10 different books at a time.

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Melissa Peng

Melissa Peng is a comedy writer, performer, and filmmaker. She’s written a handful of half-hour comedy pilots, a short film BABY GAY that screened at Oscar-qualifying film festivals, and numerous sketches for Lasers, a Maude team at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Theater. In her free time, she performs improv comedy and clown all around Los Angeles, including at UCB and the Elysian Theater.

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Andy Jiang

Andy is a Chinese American standup comic and writer. His Asian American credits include childhood weekend trips to Costco in his mom’s BMW, 10+ years of violin lessons, and enrolling in pre-pre-pre SAT school when he was 11. In addition to being asked “where are you really from?”, he also is frequently carded by white folks, mistaken for a high schooler, and confused for a Korean.

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Dustin Malaga

Dustin Malaga is an actor and writer, and is thrilled to be making his Model Majority debut. For several years, he has built a career as a fundraiser and event coordinator for arts organizations while pursuing opportunities both on and off the stage. He has been fortunate enough to have work produced by the Hartford Fringe Festival and The PlayGround Experiment, and can be seen as Caliban in On Stage/In Session from New Zenith Productions. He is a lifelong cinema nerd and a devoted Dungeons & Dragons player. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in New Haven, CT.

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Kai Xing Mun

Born and raised in Lenape homeland aka New York City, Kai Xing Mun (they/she/he) is a Malaysian-Chinese American nonbinary ace actor who has grown up performing Off-Broadway with Urban Youth Theater and went on to become a theatre arts graduate of Marymount Manhattan College. They’ve since worked in theatre, film, and television. They wrote and starred in their own original burlesque play “Calico” for FRIGID New York’s Queerly Festival. At night, they perform drag and burlesque. IG: @kaixingmun

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Yiqing Zhao

Yiqing (yee-ching) is the first and only immigrant in her family, who calls her a “bratty black sheep”. She uses this nickname as a free pass to do whatever her heart desires. Her first step was quitting medicine to pursue acting, writing, and comedy. Her second step was rescuing a puppy from Tennessee and training her to become a show dog. She takes pride in matching her earrings with her outfit, and her outfit with her mood. She spends a significant chunk of her waking hours in the kitchen, either cooking or eating–often by the sink, like a no-crumb pro!

She can be seen in various comedy clubs or bars performing standup, taking a comedy class at UCB, or in a coffee shop writing new jokes or tweaking her screenplays. You may also run into her acting on a film set, gazing at her beloved Kindle or doodling on her journal on the MTA, and chasing her dog (with little success) in Fort Tryon Park.

For all other information, please follow her IG: @theyiqingzhao

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