La Mezcla

Glo Tavarez is an comedian and actor who lived in New York City. Performs with her Harold team Reba and can be seen on High Maintenance and Patriot Act.

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Adrian and Donald talk growing up first generation Korean, leaving and coming back to New York, how they got their start in comedy, being person of color in the NY scene, and much more! Donald is one of the funniest up and coming comedians in NY, be sure to check him out at Asian AF and on his UCB house team Din Din!

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Milly and Adrian talk growing up Dominican in Miami, moving to LA and eventually New York to build a comedy career, traveling to Japan, and Milly's work with Diverse as Fuck (http://www.diverseasfuck.com/) and the White Forgiveness Project. Follow Milly on her website: http://millytamarez.com/

Milly Tamarez is a Stand up, and comedic actress/writer based out of Brooklyn, New York. She has written for The Onion Studios, Reductress, Magnifier Magazine, BRIC, and worked on a collaboration with HBO and The Root. She has been featured on MTV, Vice, BET, Flama, Above Average, Univision, and Comedy Central.   She is the one of the creators and producers of Flexx (a satire magazine for people of color) and Diverse as Fuck Festival a festival that highlights diversity in comedy. Milly is also one of the founders of the all women of color improv team Affirmative Action. Her work has been featured in Vulture, Bushwick Daily,The Daily Dot, HelloGiggles, Galore Magazine, Adweek, and CodeBlack Report.  Milly can be seen performing at theatres across NYC and Brooklyn.

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/la-mezcla-conversations-with-mixed-race-americans/id1381724032

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Diane and Adrian talk growing up first-generation Chinese, secretly doing school plays , and being a non-binary actor on the scene in NY. Diane is an amazing wonderful human be sure to follow them on IG: @dianechen and check out diane-chen.com

About Diane:

Diane Chen is an award-winning multidisciplinary filmmaker & theater artist based in NYC. Their award-winning series Here We Wait has garnered 31 nominations so far on the festival circuit – including a win for Diane as Best Supporting Actress at Brooklyn Webfest and a Best Lead Actress: Drama nomination at the IAWTV Awards. Upcoming, they are producing and starring in Sideways Smile, a series about an Asian-American female in her comedic journey discovering her sexuality, and is a recipient of the Made in NY Women’s Fund for Film, Television, and Theatre. TV: High Maintenance S3. As director and/or performer: Dixon Place, The PIT, IRT Theatre, Exquisite Corpse Company, Corkscrew Theater Festival, JACK, Columbia, Exponential Theatre Festival, Frigid Festival. Education: Dartmouth College, LAMDA, BLCU. 

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Lida Darmian is a New York-based actor, comedian, and writer. She's a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Meisner Studio of Acting and the Classical Studio. Lida is a performer at the UCBTNY, where she performs at UCB Hell's Kitchen with the Maude team Night Eaters, and improvises with The Place We Live. She can also been seen performing with her sketch team Kids These Days at the PIT and at festivals around the country. She also produces an all-female variety show, Fly Gurlz, which will appear on MNN public access channel. Google her if you wanna know more!

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Josh is an actor, writer, and comedian based in New York. Currently, he co-hosts a comedy/variety show at Union Hall in Brooklyn called, "Oh, Such a Good Show, Oh!" and a comedy/cooking show at Babycastles in Manhattan called Live! From! Snackland! Other venues he's performed at include UCB, Littlefield, The PIT, The Magnet, The Players Theatre, Stonestreet Studios, Babycastles and Under St. Marks. He has had shows listed in The New York Times and has also been featured on onmogul.com as an NYC comedian to look out for in 2018. Aside from comedy, he has been in Off-Broadway musicals, Wicked Frozen, as Nice Guy Kris and PharmaBro: An American Douchical as Kyle. He is also a proud actor/director with the Story Pirates, an educational organization that performs hilarious stories written by kids!

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ANITA FLORES has produced and starred in videos for Buzzfeed, Univision, and Pride.com. She hosts a monthly comedy show called Party of Two and is currently on tour with Awkward Sex and the City. She has a podcast called ‘I’m Listening’ where she explores different themes and pivotal moments from the show Frasier with a new guest each episode.

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Liz Days is a comedic actor and standup comic in NYC. She's known for her high energy character work, both from her solo sketch show "Flighty Connections", and as Reverend Todd Lawn's zealous fireball wife Tammy in Andrew Nielson’s comedy series Plant (http://www.pembrokemediacompany.com/plant), for which she won several awards, among them Best Lead Actress in a Comedy at the Indie Series Awards (2017). She recently played the overdramatic spokesperson for Badass Beardcare (Skitish Media), and can be seen as Pat, the very un-woke coworker in the upcoming YoutubeRed series Payroll (campsightstudios.com)

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Nicole is an actor, comedian, director, host, writer, and some other things, based out of Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Anchorage Alaska, she now hosts and co-produces the popular WOKE AF: A Mind-Opening Variety Show, a monthly comedy variety show about social issues @ucbtny. She’s directs monthly comedy shows with the comedy organization Boogie Manja, and performs regularly at the Asian AF @ucbtny. Sometimes you’ll see her in a commercial or playing “waitress” in some TV show. Overall, her and her dog J are doing their best and having a good time.

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Spring was raised in Jacksonville, and remained in Florida to study psychology and environmental science at the University of Florida. Afterwards, she continued pursuing her modeling career, which eventually introduced her to the world of hosting. It was during her first acting workshop that she learned her passion for acting. She began doing commercial work locally in Florida until moving to New York City to continue her training. After taking classes at various NYC studios, she attended a conservatory training program at Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She was recently in the final round of actors who performed and competed in the 2018 ABC Discovers showcase. She was also recently in a comedic pilot presentation and continues her work as a commercial actor. She aims to fulfill her goal of being a self-aware actor and human and is known for her volunteer work with NYC Cares.

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