AMERICAN BORN CHINESE

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE

Episodic

20th TELEVISION

DISNEY+

Executive Producers: Kelvin Yu, Destin Daniel Cretton, Melvin Mar, Asher Goldstein, Gene Luen Yang, Jake Kasdan

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton

Writers: Kelvin Yu, Charles Yu

Casting Director: Leslie Woo, CSA

Casting Associate: Julina Baber

Casting Assistant: Jalal Haddad

Start Date: January - June 2022

Location: Los Angeles

Seeking:

[ JIN WANG ]
To portray a 15-year-old East Asian-American male whose parents immigrated from Taiwan. He's a bright young man full of charm, intelligence, and self-effacing humor, but struggling to carve out exactly who he’s supposed to be. Despite tensions at home resulting from his parents’ fraught marriage, Jin is determined to start his sophomore year with a bang. However, his plans are complicated by the arrival of an international student who is foisted upon Jin simply because of their common ethnicity...SERIES REGULAR (2)

[ WEI-CHEN SUN ]
To portray a 15-year-old Chinese male. MUST SPEAK FLUENT MANDARIN AND NATURALLY MANDARIN-ACCENTED ENGLISH. MUST HAVE MODERATE MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE, PLEASE INCLUDE SUBMISSION NOTE. He's a genuinely positive and confident kid who has just arrived in the United States. Wei-Chen enthusiastically embraces Jin despite Jin’s reluctance to reciprocate. However, what Jin doesn't yet realize is that Wei-Chen’s sweet, innocent demeanor belies a deeper mystery of his true identity. He is much more powerful than he appears...SERIES REGULAR (14)

[ CHRISTINE WANG ]
40s to portray an East Asian female from Taiwan. MUST SPEAK FLUENT MANDARIN AND NATURALLY MANDARIN-ACCENTED ENGLISH, PLEASE INCLUDE SUBMISSION NOTE. She’s a strong-willed, opinionated woman with a sly wit, who loves her family deeply. Balancing American culture and Chinese culture, Christine advocates for both at different times. When talking with her son JIN, she urges him to embrace his Asianness, but when talking with her husband SIMON, she urges him to embrace his Americanness. In addition, Christine herself is also finding her own place and forging her own identity in this country…SERIES REGULAR (2)

[ SIMON WANG ]
40s to portray an East Asian male from Taiwan. MUST SPEAK FLUENT MANDARIN AND NATURALLY MANDARIN-ACCENTED ENGLISH, PLEASE INCLUDE SUBMISSION NOTE. A hard-working, devoted father and husband, Simon is bumping up against the “bamboo ceiling” at his job. This frustration spills over into his home life and marriage. Often exhausted and weighed down by responsibility, Simon is at his core, a decent man trying to find his place in a foreign land...SERIES REGULAR (7)