About Me
Emily C. Chang is a performer, writer, and musician based in New York City. She is a founding member of the renowned pan-Asian spoken word group, I Was Born With Two Tongues, which was named in A. Magazine’s “A List†of 2001’s Top 25 Most Influential Asian Americans. She is currently host of ImaginAsian TV's "The Lounge," where she interviews artists and musicians, and actors such as Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Kal Penn, Rain, John Cho, and Morgan Freeman. Emily's background stems from a variety of fields, including journalism, creative writing, music, theater, and tv/film. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Colorlines Magazine, Blu Magazine, the Columbia Poetry Review, A. Magazine, Monsoon Literary Arts Magazine, and Asianweek.com; and her singing has appeared in a number of spoken word/music albums, including 2 Tongues' "Broken Speak," "Refugeography," and hip hop albums, "Typical Cats" and Denizen Kane’s "Tree City Legends." Emily is also a founding member of Mango Tribe, an Asian American women’s arts collective. She co-wrote/directed their premiere production, "Mangoes, Cigarettes, and My Mama’s Hands" (Chopin Theater, Chicago), and the sold-out runs of original production "Sisters in the Smoke" in Chicago (Vittum Theater, 2002) and New York (HERE Arts Center Mainstage, 2003). Currently she is collaborating with multimedia artist Ann Poochareon for her latest performance project involving Asian mythology and digital interactive technology, "Papermoon."
Emily received her BA in English from the University of Chicago and her MA in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
