Writer, actor, improvisor Quincy Cho jams with author and Emmy-honored casting director Bonnie Gillespie about being your own friend, balance as a constant state of motion, and more diversity in casting.
Here’s the chat from our live session!
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Much to her mother’s dismay, Quincy Cho was born a 20-lb. baby with creative flair. She doesn’t know which upsets her mother more. As the resident black sheep of her Korean immigrant family, Quincy went to Boston College as a pre-med triple major but took a hard left turn and instead graduated cum laude with a degree in theatre and an almost-degree in English. Her dreams of doing weird, experimental theatre in the basements of restaurants in NY fell through when she couldn’t get on-campus housing to teach English in Korea. So she boomeranged back to her native SoCal to bail her parents out of business trouble (and from each other) and to date her fair share of toxic people. She has studied and performed comedy with house teams on the mainstages of UCB, Second City, and iO West. In 2019, she was awarded the NBC/Second City Hollywood Bob Curry Fellowship and showcased her work as a writer/performer in the 3rd Annual LA Diversity Comedy Festival. Quincy recently finished the 2020 WAN Writers Workshop and made it to the semifinals of the Spring 2021 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab. Favorite credits include Shameless and Queenpins. Other fun stuff she does includes pole dancing in her living room with her cat (much to her dog’s dismay), rollerskating with her best friend, and occasionally performing burlesque in drag as her bio queen Hex. Quincy probably doesn’t nap enough, but she for sure eats way too fast way too often.