Staff



Executive Producers

Lorna Chin

Kathy Hsieh

Lisa Marie Nakamura

Miko Premo


Creators

Kathy Hsieh

ShawnJ West

Literary Manager

Roger Tang


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Miko Premo

Miko is a graduate of New York University where she studied directing. Miko’s current obsession is Asian American romantic comedies for the stage and screen. Recent directing credits include “Big Hunk O’ Burnin’ Love” for PFP and “Cowboy Versus Samurai” as well as “Sex in Seattle, Episodes 12, 13 and 14” for SIS Productions. Acting credits include 6 episodes playing Shari and 2 episodes playing Chloe with “Sex in Seattle.” Costume credits include the film “Fortune Hunters,” a comedy involving love and a fortune cookie factory.


Lorna Chin

Lorna Chin joined SIS Productions in March 2001 as an Associate Producer. She serves on the Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct) Board and volunteers at the Make-A-Wish Foundation. By day, Lorna does fundraising research for Woodland Park Zoo. Previously, Lorna interned with Tom Moffatt Productions in Honolulu, Hawaii helping promote shows such as "Stars on Ice", Michael Jackson and Loretta Switt's "Shirley Valentine". Lorna received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Puget Sound in 1997.


Kathy Hsieh

Kathy Hsieh is one of the original founders, creators, and producers of SIS Productions. Besides producing for SIS, Kathy is also the Community Liaison for the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs for Seattle. She also serves as the Development Director for Living Voices as well as the Bookkeeper for Seattle Shakespeare Company. She sits on the Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab Diversity Scholarship Committee, on the Advisory Board for ReAct, and on the Fred Hutchinson Research Center's Chinese Women's Cancer Project.

Past experience includes serving as the Managing Director for the Northwest Asian American Theatre for over seven years and as the Marketing Director for Freehold for almost five years. Kathy is also one of the original founders of Theatre Puget Sound, and has served as Treasurer for the League of Fringe Theatres, Board President for ReAct, and Board President for the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation where she helped to create their Summer Youth Leadership Program. She has also served on advisory committees, boards, or panels for KING-5 TV, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, the Seattle Asian American Film Festival, and the National Association of Asian American Professionals.

As a professional actor and director, Kathy has worked for such theatres as the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, ACT, Intiman, ReAct, Taproot, NWAAT, TAG, Freehold, and many more. Her voice can be heard in a couple of audio-books, and she has also appeared in numerous corporate and educational videos, plus a few commercials and films. She is the recipient of the 2003 National Association of Asian American Professional’s Artist of the Year award in Seattle, and was also honored for her work as an actor by the Arts Fund/Corporate Council for the Arts in 2003. As a director, she was the Best of the Fest winner for New City Theatre’s Directors Festival in 1990.

An award-winning writer, she has been a judge or script evaluator for playwriting contests held by the Northwest Asian American Theatre, the Seattle Group Theatre, ACT, and FringeACT, as well as a judge for The Stranger's SPIT Awards, the Miss Seattle Chinatown Scholarship Pageant, and the Miss Seattle Japanese Community Queen Contest. Kathy has also served as a freelance writer for The University of Washington's Daily, the Northwest Asian Weekly, the International Examiner, and as a reviewer for the Seattle Fringe Festival Rag. She has taught acting and theatre classes for NWAAT, Northwest Studios, and the Seattle Children's Theatre.


Lisa Marie Nakamura

Lisa Marie Nakamura volunteered for SIS Productions’ first staged reading in December of 2000. She then became a producer for SIS Productions for their very first show in 2001. Lisa Marie is a theater artist who for the past 18 years has acted and fight choreographed in theaters from Vancouver B.C., Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. She has also done various film, television and industrial work. Lisa Marie also teaches acting and stage combat at various schools and theaters. She is currently touring an educational show Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes for Book-It All Over! Lisa Marie serves on the Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct) Board where she was a previous vice-president.

Lisa Marie’s past business experience includes over 12 years as a Night Manager at a popular grocery chain store with a weekly gross of up to $500,000 a store. Before that she was a HBC/GM Department Manager for the same grocery chain for 5 years. During the 17 years Lisa Marie was with that grocery chain she learned valuable business and leadership skills that she utilizes everyday. Currently she is an Administrative Technician for the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census.


Serin Ngai

Serin Ngai was one of the original creators and producers of SIS Productions, and helped establish SIS Productions in its developmental stage. In addition, she was the first playwright of Sex in Seattle and originated the role of Jenna. Serin graduated from the University of Washington and is currently studying law at Seattle University School of Law. She volunteers her time at several pro bono legal clinics, and placed in the 2004 1L Administrative Law Moot Court Competition. Serin is also a published poet, and in 2003 and 2004, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theater produced two of her plays. She was also commissioned to write a 10-minute play for the 2004 Seattle Fringe Festival.


Roger Tang

Roger Tang has been a veteran of Asian American theatre for two decades. He began his career as a designer for David Henry Hwang and Philip Kan Gotanda, and continued on as a producer of the Northwest premieres of Gotanda's Dream of Kitamura, Genny Lim's Paper Angels and Hwang's Bondage. He has taught Asian American history at the University of Washington and was instrumental in building the Theatre Off Jackson. Called the "Godfather of Asian American theatre" by A. Magazine, he is Producer for the Pork Filled Players (the Northwest's premiere Asian American sketch comedy group), sits on the board at Repertory Actors Theatre, edits the Asian American Theatre Revue and administers both the aa-drama and the Seattle Asian Pacific American Artists' Group mailing lists.


ShawnJ West

ShawnJ has directed two episodes of “Sex in Seattle” and has also directed and assistant directed productions for other local theatre companies.