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Lia Chang (born September 29, 1963) is an American actress, journalist, and photographer.
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After beginning her career modeling and acting in New York and on tour, Chang added parallel careers as a portrait and botanical photographer and journalist. Chang's photographs have been exhibited in the United States and elsewhere and published in various media. In 2010, the "Lia Chang Theater Photography and Other Works Portfolio" was established in the Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection housed in the
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. She has written as a syndicated columnist and as a writer and editor for AsianConnections.com, is a writer for AsAmNews.com and maintains a blog about the arts, culture, style and Asian American issues.


Early life

Chang was born Kim Anne Chang in
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, California,"Famous Chinese-Americans in News Media"
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the daughter of Russell Chang, an engineer, and Beverly Umehara, who was president of the national executive board of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA).Jdang
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Acting and modeling

Chang began her career as a model, eventually serving as a petite model for
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Chang made her feature film debut in
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'' in 1984, followed by
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'' in 1985. In 1986, Chang made her professional stage debut as Liat in a North American tour of
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's '' South Pacific'', starring Robert Goulet and
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, and directed by
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In 1990, she made her New York stage debut in Richard Caliban’s ''Famine Plays'' with Cucaracha Theatre Company. During her association with that company, she appeared in '' Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (1991) and the late night theater soap opera ''Underground Soap''. She played Angela in ''Waitin' 2 End Hell'', directed by Woodie King, Jr., at the New Federal Theatre, and starred as Jing-mei Woo in an adaptation of '' Two Kinds'', directed by Isaiah Sheffer at Symphony Space, which she also performed for broadcast on
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In 1993, at
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she played Princess Noel in Lonnie Carter’s ''Gulliver'' in 1993, and she played Suzie in ''Hot Keys'', by
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, with the Naked Angels Theatre Company with the
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. In 1996, she was Sally and Joy in
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's play ''Chicago'' at the
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. In 2005 at the Billie Holiday Theatre she played Carole Barbara in Lorey Hayes' ''Power Play''.McCallister, Jared
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She reprised her role in the revival of ''Power Play'' at the 2013
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She has played the recurring character of Nurse Lia on the daytime soap operas '' One Life to Live'' and ''
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'', guest roles on other television shows and minor characters in several feature films. In 2015, Chang co-produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the independent short film, ''Hide and Seek''."The Winners of Film Lab's 11th Annual 72 Hour Shootout Announced!"
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"72-hour-shootout"
Asian American Film Lab, July 25, 2015, accessed August 3, 2015
"Playing Hide and Seek with Actress Lia Chang"
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''Hide and Seek'' poster, showing awards
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She is included in Joann Faung Jean Lee's 2000 book ''Asian American Actors: Oral histories from stage, screen, and television''. ;Selected filmography


Photography

Chang studied photography at the
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. Since the 1980s, she has built a corpus of photographs of persons of color in the arts.Benson, Heidi
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In 1995, Chang was commissioned by the APALA to produce a photo essay, "Asian Pacific Americans in the Workforce". In 1996, she received a Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Grant to produce three additional sets of related photos for her first solo exhibition, also titled "Asian Pacific Americans in the Workforce", which were on view for
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, featured a retrospective of Chang’s work in "Asian Americans: At Home in the Galaxy", a multi-component exhibition which included Notable Asian Americans who have broken boundaries and have carved unique paths to success in their specialized field and "Asian Pacific Americans in the Workforce", ordinary women and men of diverse Asian/Pacific ancestry, working in a variety of fields and occupations. The third component included a fabric book art installation piece called "Coming to America" which detailed her grandmother’s experience of being detained at the
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. Chang’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Angel Island Immigration Station,
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Art Collection and the New York Historical Society.Chang, Lia
"About Lia"
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Her portraits of notable Chinese Americans can be seen at the
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in Los Angeles, the
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in New York, the
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in
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(portraits of New York's Chinatown after 9/11), and the
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in Los Angeles.Chang, Lia
"Awards, Exhibitions and Published Work"
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In 2010, the "Lia Chang Theater Photography and Other Works Portfolio" was established in the Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection housed in the
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. In 2011, ''In Rehearsal'', a display of 36 photographs drawn from that Portfolio were on view in the Asian Division Reading Room at the Library of Congress, and her "Portraits of New York Chinatown After 9/11" were featured in a Post 9-11 Commemorative Display for the 10th Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2015, in '' Playbill'', Laura Heywood picked Chang for her top ten list of "Most Useful Theatre Women on Social Media", writing: "Whether it's a live performance, on a red carpet, or behind the scenes at an awards show or opening night, Lia seems to always capture a moment of perfect realness between a star's planned poses. I always feel like I know the subjects more intimately than I did before viewing her photos." Portraits from Chang's Asian American Pioneer Series are published in ''Chinese Americans: The Immigration Experience'' (2000) by Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic. Portraits by Chang have been published in several other books. A photograph by Chang appeared on the book cover for ''But Still Like Air'' (2010) by Velina Houston. Her photographs have also appeared in such publications as '' Vanity Fair,
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Journalism

Chang studied film and communications at Hunter College. She is an
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Executive Leadership Graduate (2000), a Western Knight Fellow at USC's Annenberg College of Communications for Specialized Journalism on Entertainment Journalism in the Digital Age (2000), a
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Visual Edge/Visual Journalism Fellow at the
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for New Media (2001), a
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New Media Fellow at the
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(2002),"Through the Lens of Lia Chang"
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and a
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Environmental Journalism Fellow (2003). She was a syndicated columnist for KYODO News, writing about arts and entertainment in her "What's Hot in New York" column from 1995–2004. In 1997 ''Avenue Asia'' magazine named Chang as one of the "One Hundred Most Influential Asian Americans". In 2000, she received an Organization of Chinese Americans Chinese American Journalist Award for an article entitled "An Active Vision", which detailed the life of her mother, Beverly Umehara, a secretary and mother of four, who became a labor activist and president of the national executive board of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. In 2001, she received the
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2001 National Award for New Media for an article she wrote about her grandmother’s harrowing journey through the Angel Island Immigration Station. Chang is an editor and writer for AsianConnections.com, Arts and Entertainment reporter for AsAmNews.com and an arts reviewer for ''All Digitocracy''. She maintains a blog about the arts, culture, style and Asian American issues, ''Backstage Pass with Lia Chang''.


Awards and honors

* 1997 '' Avenue Asia'' magazine named her one of the "One Hundred Most Influential Asian Americans" * 2000 Organization of Chinese Americans 2000 Chinese American Journalist Award * 2001
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2001 National Award for New Media * 2015 Top Ten Films of Film Lab's 11th Annual 72-Hour-Shootout Filmmaking Competition for "Best Short Film", ''Hide and Seek'' * 2015 Top Ten Films of Film Lab's 11th Annual 72-Hour-Shootout Filmmaking Competition for "Best Actress", ''Hide and Seek'' (nomination)


Selected exhibits

* 1996: "Asian Pacific Americans in the Workforce" on view at National
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Headquarters, Washington DC; Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC;
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, Washington DC; Tamiment Labor Library/NYU
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, New York, NY; and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire * 1997: National Transportation Safety Board, Washington DC * 2001: "Asian Americans: At Home in the Galaxy" on view at West Charleston Library, Las Vegas, NV. This multi-component exhibition includes notable Asian Americans as well as ordinary women and men of diverse Asian/Pacific ancestry, working in a variety of fields and occupations. The third component of the exhibition is a fabric book art installation piece called "Coming to America" which details Chang's grandmother’s experience of being detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station. * 2002: "From Clay Street to Canal: Remembering NY Chinatown in the Wake of Sept. 11th" at
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; and
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, San Francisco, CA. * 2008: "Actor BD Wong: In Rehearsal with Herringbone at McCarter Theatre", Princeton, NJ * 2009: "Chinese New Year in New York Chinatown" at Gouveneur Healthcare Services, New York, NY, presented by
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Art Collection * 2010: "Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays Features Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Lia Chang" at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Staten Island, NY * 2011: "In Rehearsal" in the Asian Division Reading Room of the Library of Congress, Washington DC * 2011: "Portraits of New York Chinatown After 9/11" in the Asian Division Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington DCLapid, Robin
"Remembering 9/11: An Events and Resource Guide"
''hyphenmagazine.com'', San Francisco, September 9, 2011
* 2012: "In Rehearsal" in the Asian Division Reading Room of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.


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