ASIAN AF (Asian As F***), the premier comedy show in Los Angeles and New York comes to NC. This crew of talented improvisers and actors spotlights both upcoming and established Asian American performers— you can read about their work in a little-read rag called The New York Times.

Features Cast Members:

Nicole Asava (she/they) is an actor, director, improviser, and teacher who’s been featured on Barry, The Undoing, Younger, and The Break with Michelle Wolf, usually playing a masterful waiter or eccentric front desk staff. Nicole was in the NBC/UCB 2016 Showcase, the 2021 CBS Showcase, and studied comedy at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, UCB, and Second City Chicago. They’re also a certified yoga instructor, having studied at Sarvaguna Yoga Dhamma in India. Today you can see Nicole performing around NYC, with Asian AF, UCB Tourco, and really anywhere they can play and dance. 

Donald Chang You’ve heard his stupid voice on Netflix’s Squid Game and WB Games’ Gotham Knights. UCB teacher since 2019. Was on Lloyd Night with teams Horse Girl and Din Din and Harold Night with Dunce, Havoc and then Calico, and Characters Welcome Team, Mallrat.

Florence Friebe is a comedian/actress/singer/Victorian ghost who can be seen performing regularly with Asian AF, Cereal Mascots, the Armory's current longest running house team, heard on Sounds Funny Radio, an improv podcast alongside some of the city’s best improvisers and creating new forms with Looper, an improvised scene on repeat. She has been entrenched in the NYC comedy scene since 2012 and has been spotted sitting in your spooky attic window.  

Akmal Tajihan has been performing comedy in New York since 2016. In that time he has performed at UCB and still performs there. Catch him being a problem both on stage and the internet.