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Nicole Asava

Acting

Biography

Nicole Asava (she/her/they/them, formerly Nicole Pasquale) is a queer LA/NYC based Thai-Chinese-American actor, comedian, director, and writer from Anchorage, Alaska and Brooklyn, New York. They did improvisation and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCBT) in New York and Second City in Chicago, and in 2016 was a NBC/UCBT Diversity Scholar finalist. She performed in many popular NYC comedy shows including Asian AF, the improvised This American Life, Jo Firestone's Live Dubbed Sitcoms, Kaleidoscope, Dr. Brothers, and Crisis On Ski Mountain. As a theatre director Nicole's directed over two dozen comedy shows and plays with Boogiemanja, UCBT, and the Player's Theater Short Play Festival. She's made comedy videos for Elite Daily, MTV, Fuse, Broadway Video, College Humor, Scary Mommy, Betches, The Dad, and with millennial news and culture website Mic.com as a host for their daily news video series Mic Check. For over three years at UCBT they hosted the popular WOKE AF: A Mind-Opening Variety Show, an all-inclusive comedy show where artists and activists share social issues they're passionate about. In 2020 they took WOKE AF and transformed it into AMP to be a finalist in the Yes And Laughter Lab pitch program. Shortly after they were selected to write and perform in the Viacom CBS 2021 Showcase! Today you can see Nicole on HBO's Barry, The Undoing, the reality show My Mom Your Dad, as well as on Younger, and lots of projects they did purely for fun and the swag. For more visit www.nicoleasava.com

Known For

Packages
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Packages is the debut project from first-time writer / director Nick Barat. Described as a “nightmare comedy” and “Franz Kafka with an Amazon Prime account,” this short film is the latest creative evolution for Nick, who has spent two decades in culture as a DJ and producer, graphic designer, co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records and editor at The FADER Magazine. “With my background, it would have been obvious to start with a film about ‘music,’ but Packages is still very much my sensibility, my rhythm and the way I see the world. It’s an exploration of dream logic and visual storytelling – stylized, surreal and satirical, mashing up genres while cracking some jokes in the process.” Packages is currently submitting to film festivals for a premier in 2026.

Packages

Movie
Marriage of Inconvenience

New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide their identities from the dangerous people who want them dead. Franklin is an even-tempered English professor who prides himself on his attention to detail in every area of his carefully structured life. Owen is a messy, street-smart dropout with anger issues, forced into a life of crime against his will. About the only thing Franklin and Owen have in common is that they're gay. Now, living together in a very small house as Mr. and Mr. Fulton, they find they have something else in common: they can't stand each other. But both men have complicated pasts, with some very bad people relentlessly hunting them down. With their lives on the line, Owen and Franklin are stuck with each other--for better or for worse.

Marriage of Inconvenience

2023Series