Acting

Nancy Ma

Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Nancy Ma is a first generation Asian American actor and filmmaker. Her solo show about growing up in Chinatown, Home, has been performed at schools and festivals around the country. She currently co-hosts a podcast, Hoisan Hour, with her sister on the Chinese diaspora. As an actor, Nancy has been seen in The Joy Luck Club (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Three Little Girls Down a Well (The Public), Hacks (HBO), Barry (HBO), Bull (CBS). Nancy’s writing has been supported by The New Harmony Project, Asian American Arts Alliance, The Latino Theater Company, Fresh Ground Pepper, WhoHaHa. Nancy currently facilitates storytelling with The Moth and Young Storytellers. Her work and her life focus on finding the funny, intimate and redemptive in forgotten places.

Acting credits

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An alcoholic salesman finds himself at the crossroads of his life.

Midlife

2013

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1.0

It's a normal day on the assembly line at the AMERICAN BODIES manufacturing plant in Chengdu, China... until an unexpected delivery forces the workers to make a difficult choice.

American Bodies

2019

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NR

Deonte a visual artist, is approaching the age Jesus died, wanting to leave a legacy beyond material belongings; his paranoia has sparked a radical idea or is it?

Gay Baby

2018

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3.0

A millionaire entrepreneur invents a new form of ecstasy only for his business to be chased down by the Chinese triads.

Natural Vice

2022

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10.0

When an obsessive compulsive Asian-American actor meets the girl of his dreams on his way to therapy, he makes it his mission to convince her to stay when she tells him she's already planning on moving out of town for good. Meanwhile, he struggles to cope with uninvited guests who have overstayed their welcome in his one-bedroom apartment: his newly divorced and jaded best friend in need of a place to stay, and his aging but loving parents who are in town for dad's urgent operation (and who never fail to embarrass him). With seemingly the whole world giving him life advice after seeing him experience a series of disappointments with the girl and with his career, he suffers a nervous breakdown, forcing him to come to terms with what it means to truly live in the moment by reacting and acknowledging what's in front of him, rather than forcing what he wished were in front of him.

Yes, And...

2015

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A love story between two young women set against the backdrop of Chinese Opera.

Memory of a Butterfly

2012