Kelly Tsai
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About Kelly Tsai
Kelly Tsai is an award-winning writer, performer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2017, Kelly was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature / Memoir, her animated short film co-directed with Ryan Hartley Smith was screened by New Filmmakers NY, and she will be poet-in-residence for the Taipei Poetry Festival. In 2016, she was honored as a Woman of Distinction by the American Association for University Women. In 2015, Kelly was recognized by Americorps Alums' National Leader Award, New York Historical Society’s "Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion" exhibit, and NBC's News' "Asian American Poets to Watch."
Her work as a spoken word poet has been featured at over 700 venues worldwide including the White House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Apollo Theater, BAM, MTV Iggy, HBO's "East of Main Street: Asians Aloud" and three seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." She has performed at events that have featured thought leaders and entertainers like Bill Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Donna Brazile, Tyra Banks, Harry Belafonte, and Drake.
Kelly has been previously noted as one of the "30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30" by AngryAsianMan.com and one of the "Top 40 New Yorkers Who Create Positive Social Change" by Idealist.org in NYC. She is an alum of writing workshops and residencies via Callaloo, Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Norcroft, and VONA. She has received arts funding, residency support, and awards from Asian American Arts Alliance, Asian Women's Giving Circle, Illinois Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York Live Arts. She was also a teen movie critic for the Chicago Tribune & PBS' "Sneak Previews."
Her work as a spoken word poet has been featured at over 700 venues worldwide including the White House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Apollo Theater, BAM, MTV Iggy, HBO's "East of Main Street: Asians Aloud" and three seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." She has performed at events that have featured thought leaders and entertainers like Bill Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Donna Brazile, Tyra Banks, Harry Belafonte, and Drake.
Kelly has been previously noted as one of the "30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30" by AngryAsianMan.com and one of the "Top 40 New Yorkers Who Create Positive Social Change" by Idealist.org in NYC. She is an alum of writing workshops and residencies via Callaloo, Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Norcroft, and VONA. She has received arts funding, residency support, and awards from Asian American Arts Alliance, Asian Women's Giving Circle, Illinois Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York Live Arts. She was also a teen movie critic for the Chicago Tribune & PBS' "Sneak Previews."
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About Kelly Tsai
Kelly Tsai is an award-winning writer, performer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2017, Kelly was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature / Memoir, her animated short film co-directed with Ryan Hartley Smith was screened by New Filmmakers NY, and she will be poet-in-residence for the Taipei Poetry Festival. In 2016, she was honored as a Woman of Distinction by the American Association for University Women. In 2015, Kelly was recognized by Americorps Alums' National Leader Award, New York Historical Society’s "Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion" exhibit, and NBC's News' "Asian American Poets to Watch."
Her work as a spoken word poet has been featured at over 700 venues worldwide including the White House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Apollo Theater, BAM, MTV Iggy, HBO's "East of Main Street: Asians Aloud" and three seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." She has performed at events that have featured thought leaders and entertainers like Bill Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Donna Brazile, Tyra Banks, Harry Belafonte, and Drake.
Kelly has been previously noted as one of the "30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30" by AngryAsianMan.com and one of the "Top 40 New Yorkers Who Create Positive Social Change" by Idealist.org in NYC. She is an alum of writing workshops and residencies via Callaloo, Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Norcroft, and VONA. She has received arts funding, residency support, and awards from Asian American Arts Alliance, Asian Women's Giving Circle, Illinois Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York Live Arts. She was also a teen movie critic for the Chicago Tribune & PBS' "Sneak Previews."
Her work as a spoken word poet has been featured at over 700 venues worldwide including the White House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Apollo Theater, BAM, MTV Iggy, HBO's "East of Main Street: Asians Aloud" and three seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." She has performed at events that have featured thought leaders and entertainers like Bill Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Donna Brazile, Tyra Banks, Harry Belafonte, and Drake.
Kelly has been previously noted as one of the "30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30" by AngryAsianMan.com and one of the "Top 40 New Yorkers Who Create Positive Social Change" by Idealist.org in NYC. She is an alum of writing workshops and residencies via Callaloo, Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Norcroft, and VONA. She has received arts funding, residency support, and awards from Asian American Arts Alliance, Asian Women's Giving Circle, Illinois Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York Live Arts. She was also a teen movie critic for the Chicago Tribune & PBS' "Sneak Previews."
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Hometown:
Brooklyn, New York
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