Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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For this virtual panel, the Writers Guild Foundation, in partnership with the WGAW’s Asian American Writers Committee, the Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity (TTIE), discuss how Asian American film and TV writers are updating and revising onscreen and behind-the-screen narratives to be more inclusive, multi-dimensional, and authentic.

Panelists are Liz Hsiao Lan Alper (Writer/Producer, Day of the Dead; Co-Founder #PayUpHollywood), Teresa Hsiao (Co-creator/Executive Producer, Awkwafina is Nora From Queens; writer/producer, American Dad, Fresh Off the Boat), Adele Lim (Screenwriter, Raya and the Last Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians; writer/producer, Lethal Weapon, Reign), Y. Shireen Razack (Writer/Co-Executive Producer, New Amsterdam; Co-Founder, Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity), and Alexander Woo (Co-creator/Executive Producer, The Terror: Infamy)

Moderated by Tawal Panyacosit, Jr., (co-creator/co-Executive Producer, Life After First Failure, Co-Founder, Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity). Filmed on May 6, 2021.