Chris Tashima is an American actor and director. He is a Sansei (third-generation Japanese American), born in 1960, in Cambridge, MA. He grew up in California, in Pasadena, Berkeley and Los Angeles. He attended UC Santa Cruz for two years, where he studied film production. He also attended UCLA, and took additional filmmaking courses at Visual Communications (VC). He started his acting career at East West Players in 1985. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ... Visas and Virtue is a narrative short film inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sempo Sugihara, who is known as The Japanese Schindler. ... An Emmy Award. ... Day of Independence is a short film, broadcast as a half-hour PBS television special. ... The Sansei Japanese Americans (三世 lit. ... Serving from 1999 to 2003, Army General Eric Shinseki of Hawaii became the first Asian American military chief of staff. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Cruz, California. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... Visual Communications (Southern California Asian American Studies Central Inc. ... Category: ...

Tashima is co-founder of the entertainment company Cedar Grove Productions and co-Artistic Director of its theatre division, Cedar Grove Productions On Stage. Cedar Grove Productions was founded in 1996 by playwright Tim Toyama, actor/director Chris Tashima, producer Chris Donahue and actor/director Tom Donaldson. ...

He is the son of U.S. Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima.

Actor

Tashima stars as the romantic leading man opposite Joan Chen in Eric Byler's Americanese, a 2007 release from IFC First Take. The film won two awards after its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, including a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Cast. He has also appeared in Sherwood Hu's Lani Loa - The Passage (1998) with Angus Macfadyen, and Rea Tajiri's Strawberry Fields (1997) with Suzy Nakamura. Leading man or leading gentleman is an informal term for the actor who plays a secondary lead or supporting role, usually a love interest, to the leading actress in a film or play. ... Joan Chen Chong (Traditional Chinese: 陳冲; Simplified Chinese: 陈冲; Mandarin Pinyin: Chén Chōng; Cantonese: 陳沖/Chan Chung; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: can4 cung1; Yale: chan4 chung1; born April 26, 1961, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-born actress and film director, best known for her roles in The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks... The creator of or main contributor to this page may have a conflict of interest with the subject of this article. ... Americanese is an American independent feature film released in 2007. ... // 2007 in films has been designated as Battle of the Sequels 2 simply because of its inclusion of the highly anticipated sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, Spider-Man 3, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Shrek... IFC Films is an American film distribution company based in New York, owned by the Independent Film Channel. ... Downtown Austin, Texas, where SXSW is held each spring Bloc Party performing at Stubbs BBQ in 2007 Carrie Rodriguez, a SXSW 2007 performer Morrissey at SXSW 2006 South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that have taken place every spring in... Lani Loa - The Passage is a 1998 film directed by Sherwood Hu, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, about a woman murdered on her wedding day in Hawaii who comes back to haunt her murderers. ... Angus Macfadyen (born September 21, 1963) is a Scottish actor. ... Strawberry Fields (1997) is an independent feature film directed by Japanese American filmmaker Rea Tajiri and co-written by Tajiri and Japanese Canadian author Kerri Sakamoto. ... Suzy as Inger in Help Me Help You Suzy Aiko Nakamura is an Asian American actress. ...

His stage credits include originating roles in Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own (LA Weekly Theater Award for Ensemble Performance, shared with Noel Alumit, Anthony David and Dennis Dun) at the Celebration Theatre, Laurence Yep's Dragonwings at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (reprised at Seattle Children's Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, in Atlanta, and Syracuse Stage), Tim Toyama's Visas and Virtue, at the Road Theatre Company, and Wakako Yamauchi's The Memento at East West Players. Chay Yew, born 1965, is a playwright and director who was born in Singapore and now lives in Los Angeles, California. ... L.A. Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called alternative weekly) in Los Angeles, California. ... Named one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine, novelist, actor, and activist, Noël Alumit was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in the Los Angeles area of the United States. ... Laurence Yep Laurence Yep (葉祥添, born June 14, 1948) is an award-winning Chinese American modern author. ... Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a regional theater company located in Berkeley, California. ... Tim Toyama was born in 1952 in Chicago, IL. He is a Sansei playwright and producer living in Los Angeles, CA. His plays have been produced at The Complex, in Los Angeles, and The Road Theatre Company, at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood, California. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Category: ...

Director

Tashima won an Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film with producer Chris Donahue, for Visas and Virtue (1997), which he directed, co-wrote (adapting the one-act play by Toyama), and starred in. To produce Visas and Virtue, he co-founded Cedar Grove Productions in 1996, with Toyama and Donahue. This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ... Visas and Virtue is a narrative short film inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sempo Sugihara, who is known as The Japanese Schindler. ... Tim Toyama was born in 1952 in Chicago, IL. He is a Sansei playwright and producer living in Los Angeles, CA. His plays have been produced at The Complex, in Los Angeles, and The Road Theatre Company, at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood, California. ... Cedar Grove Productions was founded in 1996 by playwright Tim Toyama, actor/director Chris Tashima, producer Chris Donahue and actor/director Tom Donaldson. ... Tim Toyama was born in 1952 in Chicago, IL. He is a Sansei playwright and producer living in Los Angeles, CA. His plays have been produced at The Complex, in Los Angeles, and The Road Theatre Company, at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood, California. ...

More recently, he directed, co-wrote and acted in Day of Independence (2003), a half-hour television special for PBS, produced by Lisa Onodera, which received a Regional Emmy® Nomination from the NATAS San Francisco/Northern California Chapter, in the category of Historical/Cultural — Program/Special. Day of Independence is a short film, broadcast as a half-hour PBS television special. ... A television special is a television program, typically a short film or television movie intended to debut in prime time, the term used to define any television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Lisa Onodera is an American independent film producer, of such noted films as Picture Bride, The Debut and Americanese. ... An Emmy Award. ... The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences or NATAS is branch of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences based in New York City. ...

His stage directing credits include several shows with the Grateful Crane Ensemble, most recenlty the world premiere of Soji Kashiwagi's Nihonmachi: The Place To Be, in San Francisco. The Grateful Crane Ensemble is a theatre company based in Southern California, established in July, 2001. ... Japantown is a common name for official Japanese American or Japanese Canadian communities in big cities. ...

Professional

Tashima is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch, and belongs to the Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Actors' Equity Association. Founded on May 11, 1927 in California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. ... DGA Headquarters in Hollywood, California Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. ... The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ... The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) is an actors union that aims to represent actors in radio and television, much like the Screen Actors Guild does for movies. ... The Actors Equity Association (commonly simply Equity) is the trade union of American theatrical performers and stage managers. ...

He is also a stage set designer. He won an Ovation Award for Best Set Design in a Smaller Theater, for Sweeney Todd, and a Drama-Logue Award for Scenic Design (shared with Christopher Komuro) for Into The Woods, both at East West Players. Established in 1989, the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards are Southern Californias premiere awards for excellence in theatre with is held each November. ... Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... The Drama-Logue Award was an award given by the publishers of Drama-Logue newspaper, a west-coast theatre trade publication. ... Into the Woods is an award-winning musical featuring a score by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ... Category: ...

Community

Honors:

• "Japanese American of the Biennium" (shared with Toyama) – Presented by National JACL
• "Bridge Builder" Asian American Leadership Award – Presented by A Magazine, New York, NY
• Humanitarian Award – Presented by The "1939" Club, Los Angeles CA
• Visionary Award – Presented by East West Players, Los Angeles CA
• Community Award – Presented by the Japanese American Service Committee, Chicago IL
• Special Recognition Award – Presented by the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles CA

Tim Toyama was born in 1952 in Chicago, IL. He is a Sansei playwright and producer living in Los Angeles, CA. His plays have been produced at The Complex, in Los Angeles, and The Road Theatre Company, at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood, California. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Stub ... A Magazine was founded in 1989 by Jeff Yang to cover Asian American issues and culture, and grew out of a campus magazine Yang edited while an undergraduate at Harvard University. ... Category: ...

External links

• Chris Tashima at the Internet Movie Database
• www.myspace.com/christashima
• in-depth interview on Asiance Magazine
• Dennis Amith interview on asianconnections.com
• Q&A from San Diego Asian Film Foundation