Staff and Board

Staff

Darryl D. Chiang — Interim Executive Director
Darryl D. Chiang is Senior Corporate Counsel at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, where he works on intellectual property licensing transactions for Google Maps and Google Earth. Darryl began his legal career in 1994 by clerking for Chief Judge Judith N. Keep of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego. In 1995, he joined the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, where he practiced both corporate law and commercial litigation. In 1996, Darryl became Associate General Counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories, a Latham client in the Bay Area’s bio-tech sector. From 2000 to 2006, Darryl worked at Hitachi America, Ltd., where he focused on business transactions and employment law. He joined Google’s Legal Department in 2006. Darryl earned his bachelors degree from Princeton University in 1990 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1994. Based on a life-long love of the performing arts, he joined the Board of Directors of the Asian American Theater Company (AATC) in 2001, and has served as AATC’s Board Chair since 2005. In 2008, Darryl became AATC’s Interim Executive Director.

Duy Nguyen — Co-Artistic Director
Duy Nguyen is a writer and director who emigrated from Vietnam and received his BA in English from UC Berkeley. His theater training also began at Berkeley, but continued as he lived overseas, immersing himself in the multi-media theater scene in Prague and in a traditional water puppetry apprenticeship in Vietnam. Duy founded Theater Rice and One4All Theater, as well as the comedy group Kamikaze Theory and the improv group Hobofish. Duy has written and directed works for various Bay Area theater companies over the past decade, including Z Space, Jon Sims Center, Theater Yugen, Center for Theater Arts, and AATC, where he directed Alex Park’s Rental Car in 2004 and AATC’s NewWorks Incubator Playwrights Workshop in 2008.

Alan S. Quismorio — Co-Artistic Director
Alan S. Quismorio received his BA in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University and has been a long-time actor, director and producer in the Bay Area. As an actor, Alan is a member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, and has appeared in Trevor Allen’s 49 Miles, Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City, and Liz Duffy Adams’ One Big Lie. He also worked for 8 years with AlchemySF, serving as its Artistic Director and directing several plays, including Harry Cronin’s Dark Matter and Joe Jennison’s A Beautiful Man, which won “Best of Fringe” honors at the 2003 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Alan’s career with AATC began in 1996, when he starred in Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own, directed by East-West Players’ Tim Dang.

Pearl Wong — Interim Managing Director
Pearl Wong is a native San Franciscan, and began volunteering with AATC in 1992. She is also a member of the sketch comedy troupe 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, who were the subject of the documentary “Mighty Warriors of Comedy“, which aired nationally on PBS and received a 2007 Northern California Emmy® Award. As an actor, she has worked locally with Impact Theatre, Intersection for the Arts – Campo Santo Theatre, The Cutting Ball Theater, and Calaveras Repertory Theatre.

Board of Directors

Artistic Director
The Office of the Artistic Director maintains a seat on the Board of Directors.  AATC’s current Co-Artistic Directors collectively share this Board seat.

• Duy Nguyen — Co-Artistic Director
  See bio above

• Alan S. Quismorio — Co-Artistic Director
  See bio above

Darryl D. Chiang — Chairman
See bio above.

Conrad Corpus
Conrad Corpus is a professional services consultant at Genius.com, Inc. Outside of providing marketing and design consulting services to his customers, he enjoys photography, cycling, reading, and traveling. A native of the Bay Area, Conrad grew up in Fremont and currently resides in San Francisco. He studied international relations at San Francisco State University and in 2004 spent two months in the Komi Republic, Russia, on an HIV/AIDS education and outreach fellowship funded by IREX and USAID. Prior to his fellowship, he served as a program officer at the International Diplomacy Council in San Francisco. An avid cyclist, Conrad rides in the AIDS LifeCycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles. If time would allow, he would also love to continue learning ballet at the Academy of Ballet.

Wei Ming Dariotis
Wei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asians of Mixed Heritage and Asian Pacific American Literature, Arts, and Culture at San Francisco State University. She is the Faculty Advisor of the Hapa Club at SFSU and she co-founded and facilitates the San Francisco Chapter of Hapa Issues Forum, a national organization dedicated to Asians of Mixed Heritage. Wei Ming Dariotis is a member of the Advisory Board of Kearny Street Workshop and the Board of the Asian American Theater Company. Her publications include, “Developing a Kin-Aesthetic: Multiraciality and Kinship in Asian and Native North American Literature,” in Mixed Race Literature, ed. by Jonathan Brennan (Stanford University Press), and “On Growing Up Queer and Hapa” in the Multiracial Child Resource Book, eds. Maria P.P. Root and Matt Kelley (Mavin Foundation).

Tina Hui
Tina Hui is the affiliate and media marketing manager at Snapfish, a division of Hewlett-Packard, where she helps expand Snapfish’s market share and position in the photo image and printing industry via innovative and progressive revenue driving customer acquisition efforts through affiliate marketing, advertising and various media efforts.  Tina is a passionate marketing, business development, product development, advertising and project management professional with a penchant for ideas, new technology, media, people and loving life who shares her experience and passions with businesses, non profits and corporations of all shapes and sizes as a freelance project management and creative consultant.  She has been an avid community and non profit supporter that brings fund raising, event coordination, corporate relations, public relations, marketing and management consulting experience to share in the hopes of enabling organizations, companies and individuals to effect positive, sustainable and meaningful endeavors. Tina earned her BS in Business Marketing from the University of San Francisco in 2006, where she was a member of the national co-ed service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.

Nonoko Sato
Nonoko Sato is the Executive Director of Schools, Mentoring and Resource Team (SMART), an educational non-profit organization that provides advocacy as well as financial, academic and social support to motivated, financially-disadvantaged students and their families in San Francisco. Nonoko has been involved in the theater arts for over 20 years, predominantly as an actor with experience in stage and house management, as well as designing and running set/light/makeup/costume crews. Nonoko is a core company member of One4All Theater Company (CA), and Actors Anonymous Theatre Company (CA); most notably acting in the original ensemble of Beijing, California and as Meredith in 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress, respectively. She has also appeared on stage with Second Wind Productions, Theatre in the Woods, Calaveras Repertory Theatre, and The Uninvited Company. In addition to serving on the AATC Board, she served on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Neighbor’s Project , volunteers as the Team Leader for the Bay Area Carleton College Alumni Admissions Program, and participates bi-annually as an actor with Young California Writer’s Project, an organization that provides a forum for creative self-expression to under-served high school youth in San Francisco. Previous to SMART, she gained professional and volunteer experience in the fields of education, administration, graphic design, and IT. Nonoko grew up in Tokyo and Chicago and graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a B.A. in International Relations.

Deborah Shaw
Deborah Shaw is a native San Franciscan who did her undergraduate work at the University of San Francisco and got her master’s and credential at San Francisco State University. She has been teaching in the Theatre Arts Department at City College of San Francisco since 1987 and has also been known to teach at East Bay, San Jose City College and Co-Stars School of Performing Arts. She teaches such classes as Beginning Acting, Acting for the Camera and Character Development/Scene Study. She has appeared in shows around the Bay Area (Linda Low in Flower Drum Song, Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof, to name a few…) and still sings with a band on occasion. She has worked with the San Francisco Young Playwrights Foundation as a director and on the play selection committee. Deborah has directed and choreographed such shows as Pippin, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Big River, Godspell and Assassins. Deborah was also the recipient of the Peninsula Children’s Theatre Association Fellowship Award for graduate work.

Guy Stilson
Guy Stilson lives in San Francisco’s Richmond District and is a partner with the law firm of Low, Ball & Lynch. His practice areas include litigation and entertainment matters and his clients have included Burning Man, Jerry Garcia and other members of The Grateful Dead, Alpine Electronics and other international businesses, and major insurance companies, as well as local business owners. Having a strong drive to serve his local community, Guy also serves regularly as a volunteer Judge Pro Tem for the San Francisco Superior Court. Guy is also involved in motion pictures, having produced several award-winning independent feature films including Maladaptive, AATC’s first feature film! Guy has been on AATC’s board since 2000, and previously was on the board of Intersection for the Arts for five years.

Kathy Takeda
A native of San Jose, Kathy began working at AATC as an intern while completing her certification in Nonprofit Management at San Jose State University. In addition to her work with AATC, she is a bilingual docent at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and has volunteered for many nonprofit organizations in the South Bay. She has a passion for music and performing and was a member of the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale for 13 years, and is currently singing with The Choral Project under Daniel Hughes. Kathy received her B.A. in Japanese from the University of California at Berkeley and spent her junior year abroad at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.

David Tsao
David Tsao is an IT Security manager at Gilead Sciences Inc., has a photography and sound recording business, as well as a lighting and exit sign business (www.greentorch.com). He is a mentor for BUILD, an East Palo Alto high school non-profit that develops students’ business skills. David co-founded “Piano Fantasia,” a series of benefit piano concerts in honor of the Mondavis at his alma mater, Pacific Union College. David is interested in raising awareness of theater and music in all communities.

Les Tso
Les Tso is an event planner with Aggregate Productions and wine consultant for various local restaurants. He enjoys working in the food and beverage industry, and has experience in Sales and Marketing at MillerCoors, PepsiCo, Dr Pepper Snapple, and Safeway Inc. He grew up in the Bay Area and took full advantage of the UC system, graduating from UC Berkeley in English Literature and UC Davis with an MBA. Les has built ties with local community groups over the years and is thrilled to serve on the AATC Board. Among his other interests are tea, seaweed, comedy, aphorisms, greatness, the written word, Rieslings, creativity, layers of complexity, and fried foods.

Annie Wang
Annie Wang is a fashion buyer for the department store Macys. She has been involved in theater since high school. While earning her BA in Legal Studies at UC Berkeley, she was an active member and historian for Theatre Rice, the premiere Asian American theater group on campus. In addition, she volunteered with Asian Health Services and served as a camp counselor for an HIV summer camp. Her “passion for fashion” has led her to be a costume designer for various productions with AATC and One4All Theater Company. She was also a stylist for an MTV Asia music video for the band Blessed Girls. As an actress, she continues to perform with Kamikaze Theory (AATC’s resident Asian American sketch comedy group) and was recently in a production with Bindlestiff Studio.

Advisory Board

Andrew Bushaw
Ravi Chandra
Nguyen Qui Duc
Philip Kan Gotanda
James Hirabayashi
David Henry Hwang
Daphne Lei
Sean Lim
Joan K. Osato
Francis Tanglao-Aguas
Lauren Travis
Shawn Wong