Talent Guide
Desdemona Chiang
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- Discipline:Writer
- Program Year:Episodic Lab 2023
Bio
Desdemona Chiang is a Taiwan-born American director and writer based in Seattle, Washington and Ashland, Oregon. She has over 20 years of experience directing in American regional theatre and writes stories about unique intergenerational immigrant experiences. Her TV pilot Made in USA has been developed with Sundance, The Orchard Project, The Writers Lab and was a winner of the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab. Desdemona is also part of the inaugural cohort of the Sundance Institute Asian American Fellowship and the AFI DWW+ class of 2024, where she wrote and directed a short film adaptation of Made in USA.
Current Project
ZHIZHA! (紙紮!)Logline
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters struggle to keep their relationship and family business - the last Taoist funeral paper effigy maker in Southern California - alive.