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