TORONTO: DANGERS OF SELF MYTHOLOGIES: REWRITING SUCCESS NARRATIVES - Panel discussion led by Marjorie Chan

About the panelists:André Dae Kim, is an actor/writer from Toronto Canada. Kim had done theatre since the age of 8 and continued pursuing dramatic studies in high school and university. Kim's professional career started with Degrassi: The Next Generation / Next Class and since then Kim has been working in film for the last 10 years. Some notable productions have been "Salvation", "Schitt's Creek", "American Gods", "Locke & Key", "Mary Kills People" and many more. As a Canadian-Korean actor, André hopes to continue to take part and create stories that shed light on the Asian Canadian experience and hopes to work and create more projects that show more diverse areas of Film and Television that have yet to be explored.A long-time friend of fu-GEN Theatre, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is a Korean-Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera Train 48 (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play Kim's Convenience (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021).Lee has won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series four times for his role as Mr. Kim in Kim's Convenience, and has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and the stage version of Kim's Convenience in 2012.Leon Aureus is the Artistic Producer of Carlos Bulosan Theatre, a Filipino-Canadian Theatre company based in Toronto that has been supporting artists and producing theatre for over 40 years. He is also a playwright, a Dora nominated actor, filmmaker and producer. Past roles and select credits include: co-founder of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company; co-founder Step-UP Improv Comedy troupe, Playwright – Banana Boys, People Power, In the Shadow of Elephants, Kaldero; Director – Anak, Kaldero, The Commute; Associate Producer – Kim’s Convenience (Toronto Fringe). He has also directed work on the commercial side for clients such as CAMH, Scotiabank and BMO.Grace Lynn Kung holds two Certificates of Distinction for Speech and Drama from Trinity College London in the UK. Her voice can be heard in Fallout 76, Far Cry 4, the Doozers, and several audiobooks including the Ava Lee crime series, Disappearing Moon Cafe and The Tiger Flu, LAMBDA Literary Award winner for queer fiction.Screen credits include lobbying with Jessica Chastain (Miss Sloane), NCIS, Clarice, Star Trek Discovery, Designated Survivor, The Expanse, Cult of Chucky, Transplant, Sarah Polley's web series – Hey Lady – and Ramin Bahrani's HBO adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, with Michael B Jordan. Grace's directorial debut – A False Sense of Security – won Special Jury Mention at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas in Texas. She play Bessy in this year's Peabody award winning series “Sort Of” and in 2023 will play the lead Marissa Wong, in the Lionsgate series “Wong + Winchester”.