Meet the FAWK Extra Quality Super Show Team

Naomi Ko

Co-Founder, Director, Writer, Talent

Naomi Ko is a Korean American filmmaker, performer, and writer. She’s best known for Nice, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Naomi’s currently a Sundance Institute x Gold House One House Filmmaker Fund recipient. She is a 4x Sundance fellow, McKnight and Jerome Hill fellow, and Bush Leadership fellow. She co-hosts the podcast, Asians in Baseball. 

www.konaomi.com | @konaomie

Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay

Co-Founder, Talent

Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is a Lao American writer best known for her KUNG FU ZOMBIES plays and children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING. Saymoukda’s an artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center, Mellon Foundation; a fellow at Bush Foundation, Jerome & Camargo Foundations; a Playwrights Center Core Writer; and recipient of 40+ grants and fellowships.

May Lee-Yang

Co-Founder, Director, Writer, Talent

May Lee-Yang writes plays, stories, poems, and screenplays. She is a co-founder of FAWK and writer of The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity and Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman. Learn about her art life at www.lazyhmongwoman.com and business life at www.mayhemgames.net.

Dulcé Sloan

Featured Comedian

Dulcé Sloan is an Emmy Award winning comedian, actress, and writer. She is currently a senior correspondent for The Daily Show, the voice of Honeybee on Fox’s The Great North, and author of Hello, Friends!

https://www.dulcesloan.com | @dulcesloan

Tiffany Bui

Talent

Tiffany Bui (Boo-ee) is a podcast producer and journalist. But her biggest accomplishment is moving out of Maple Grove.

Jamie Kalakaru-Mava

Talent

Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava is a second generation Polish/Sri-Lankan American and accomplished artist, writer, and community organizer. A Loft Mirrors and Windows Fellow and member of the 2023-2024 Creative Nonfiction Cohort, her works include It’s Never Going to Work (2018), Butterflies and Tall Bikes (2021), and Half a World Away (2024).

@purenoumena // www.purenoumena.org

Patti Kameya

Writer, Talent

Patti Kameya is the great-grandchild of Okinawan and Japanese sugar plantation laborers in US-controlled Hawaiʻi. She forages wild plants, treats historical amnesia, and teaches occasional classes at the Loft Literary Center. Her writing appears in North Dakota Quarterly, Taint Taint Taint, and elsewhere. Find her other work at pattikameya.com.

May Losloso

Talent

May Losloso is a 1.5 generation, Filipina-American mom, organizer, non-profit professional, and performer. She debuted with FAWK in 2018 and performed in the Super Show in 2019. She uses comedy as a relationship building tool with the community daily. She is a runner and an avid podcast and audiobook listener.

Brenda Tran

Writer, Talent

Brenda Tran is a Vietnamese American artist, writer, and writer. She is the founder of Banana Leaf Collective, a Twin Cities based arts community group that utilizes art, mutual aid practices, and cultural work to combat systems of oppression. You’ve seen her zines, art, and hee-hee ha-ha’s around town. www.brendattran.com

Phasoua Vang

Talent


Phasoua Vang is a Twin Cities based actor. Recent film work: Bitterroot, short film The Wind Always Strikes the Highest Mountain and upcoming webisode of Hmong Organization. Some theater performances: I Was a Stranger Too, A Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity, and Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman.

Tsuab Yang

Talent

Tsuab Yang (she/her) is a Hmong queer filmmaker, writer and comedian based in the Twin Cities. She majored in Cinema & Media Studies from the University of MN Twin Cities and has since worked on numerous Hmong-led film productions. When not on film sets, Tsuab does stand up comedy with Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK).

Lauren Volkart

Talent

Lauren Volkart (Stage Manager) is excited to be collaborating wi th FAWK for the first time. She stage manages at theaters throughout the Twin Cities. Next up: Misery at Lakeshore Players Theatre.

More Amazing Individuals who helped create this wonderful show!

SHOW CREW

liping vong — Assistant Stage Manager

John Vang — Videographer and Editor

Randy Xiong — Sound, Sound Mixer

Touchaing Yang — Videographer

Xu Yang — Photographer

SHOES IN THE HOUSE FILM

May Lee-Yang — Writer and Director, Talent

Producer — Kazua Melissa Vang

John Vang — Director of Photography, Editor

Tsuab Yang — Production Designer, Art Director

Touchaing Yang — 1st AC

Tong Lee — Gaffer

Randy Xiong — Sound/Boom, Sound Editor

Dominique Herskind — Puppeteer

Choua Yang — Art PA

Mickies Kiros — PA

Lucy Vang — PA

Naomi Ko — Talent

Mars Kamenski — Talent

May Losloso — Talent

Belinda Xiong — Talent

Donny Hagen — Talent

Emma Ahlstrom — Talent

Untitled Korean Dating Reality Show Parody FILM

Naomi Ko — Writer and Director

Producer — Kazua Melissa Vang

Chue Yang — Director of Photography, Editor

John Vang — 2nd Camera Operator

Tsuab Yang — Production Designer, Art Director, Talent

Meyata Xiong — Hair and Makeup Artist

Touchaing Yang — 1st AC, Talent

Tong Lee — Gaffer

Xu Yang — Gaffer

Randy Xiong — Sound/Boom, Sound Editor

Lucy Vang — Wardrobe

Brenda Tran — Art PA, Talent

Mickies Kiros — PA

Ricky Vue — PA

Zack Nguyen — PA

Tiffany Bui — Talent

May Lee-Yang — Talent

Ayden Her — Talent

Kurt RuKim — Talent

Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay — Talent