Alan joins

Photo by Jim Ferreira

Celebrating its 35th Anniversary Year, the Asian American Theater Company proudly announces that Duy Nguyen and Alan S. Quismorio have joined the company as Co-Artistic Directors.

Alan received his BA in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University and has been a long-time actor, director and producer in the Bay Area. As an actor, Alan is a member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, and has appeared in Trevor Allen's 49 Miles, Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City, and Liz Duffy Adams' One Big Lie.

Additional acting credits include: A Language of Their Own with the Asian American Theatre Company, The Sweetest Hangover (& Other STDs) with Brava! For Women in the Arts, and the Shotgun Players' Troilus and Cressida.

Alan’s career with AATC began in 1996, when he starred in Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own, directed by East-West Players’ Tim Dang.

His directorial credits include the Jon Sims Center (JSC) premiere and New Conservatory restaging of Harry Cronin's Dooley, Cronin's Dark Matter at JSC, and Tom Kelly's Significant Others at the New Conservatory. A Beautiful Man won “Best of Fringe” honors at the 2003 San Francisco Fringe Festival.

He served as Artistic Director for 8 years with AlchemySF.

As a producer, he staged Joe Jennison's A Beautiful Man (Best of Fringe selection; recipient of the Dean Goodman Award) at the 2003 SF Fringe.

He has worked on projects with the Magic Theatre, Oakland Public Theatre, and Word for Word.

29 October 2008 - San Francisco, CA