Alice "Ali" Chen Email & Phone Number

• Over ten years of long form improvisation experience – performing throughout Los Angeles and online with improv and sketch teams
• Over twenty years of professional theatre, TV, Film, Commercial, New Media, and playwriting
• Read music, sing, and play violin, piano, flute, recorder, guitar, and ukulele at varying degrees of ability
• Knowledge of Suzuki Viewpoints movement for acting, Korean Mask Dance, and ballroom dancing
• Write and Executive Produce L.A. BEER, the first multi-camera comedy with a live studio audience in new media (able to write, shoot, and edit video, and promote via social media)
• SAG-AFTRA & Actors Equity Association Union member, SAG-AFTRA New Media Signatory

Los Angeles And Online

• Coach scenes and monologues for auditions or theatre competitions
• Work with non-actors whose work requires them to speak effectively in front of the camera
• Teach essentials of voice, body language, listening, and communication

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Teaching Artist Residency in El Monte within the Mountain View School District
• Teach students to use masks, movement, improvisation, speech, poetry, and visual arts to express feelingsand tell story
• Create lesson plans for six-week units for elementary and middle school students
• Use class management skills to direct students and create a safe and healthy class community

• Lesson Plan Creation
• Work with groups and individuals ages nine and up
• Assist non-technical clients in learning technical processes in a way that is simple and understandable
• Write clear, easy-to-follow directions for technical work flows
• Edit videos per client needs and specifications
• Experience teaching virtually on Zoom, GoogleMeet, Skype, and FaceTime

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Assist Patrons with ticketing and customer service needs at the Box Office window
• Proficient in Tessitura software to sell, exchange, return, donate tickets and experienced in running reports, pulling seating charts, creating flags, constituencies, CSI notes, affiliations, subscriptions, and looking.
• Balance cash drawer
• Work with Management and other Box Office staff to help show and event ticketing run smoothly

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Train new hires on policies, intranet, ticketing software, phone software, and theatre hierarchy,
• Oversee a staff of twenty-four with a supervisory team of four
• Work closely with other departments within Center Theatre Group to solve problems and work on projects with a common goal
• Write manuals training new hires and instructions for ongoing training with new technology
• Find solutions (both technical and non-technical) for issues that occur several times a day
• Upkeep of HTML intranet webpage using WordPress

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Walking the Beat Program:
• Design and create and teach lesson plans for high school students and police officers involving social justice, writing, community, improvisation, theatre and performance both alone and with a fellow Teaching Artist
• Create community among police officers and students from Compton, Hawthorn, and Hollywood

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Teaching Artist for the Fountain Voices Project at the Fountain Theatre
• Implementing France-Luce Benson's Lesson Plan build around the play"Detained"
• Teach students essential communication skills, basic playwriting: character, plot, dialogue, and theme
• Teach students critical thinking skills, and performance skills: voice, on-camera speaking, movement, emotional expression
• Teach students how to interview, write, and perform plays
• Facilitate discussions on social justice

Los Angeles, Spokane, Phoenix, Las Vegas

• Organize and arrange travel and travel days for Touring Company Members
• Work closely with Presenters, Producers, General Management, Touring Company Members, Local Hires,and contractors to keep day-to-day operations running smoothly and troubleshoot issues
• Assist Company Manager with finances, House Seats, contracts, logistics and communications

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Responsible for engaging and educating youth ages 9-21 from diverse backgrounds
• Plan and organize biweekly lessons and weekly outings
• Mentor youth through social, emotional, and spiritual issues

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Tutor High School Students in Math and English and the SAT exams
• Discuss psychology of test-taking and self-imposed hurdles in how students believed in themselves
• Work with students who tested as learning disabled

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Organize session tapes, paperwork, and contracts for Producers, Directors, Network, and Studio
• Schedule audition sessions and run camera for sessions
• Work in a high-pressure environment with weekly deadlines and high confidentiality

Santa Monica, California AND Minneapolis, MN

• Teach first aid and CPR to contracted clients as well as hospital staff and lay people
• Create lesson plans per required standards for certification
• Communicate and work with various communities in Los Angeles and Minneapolis/St. Paul

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Conceive, plan, and implement programs to educate residence in diversity and social justice
• Mentor Freshmen from all races, cultures, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation
• Community outreach to enhance residence opportunities to serve their community by volunteering

Teaching Artist Intensive

• CA Standards Training & Lesson plan design • Classroom Management Training • Hands-on classroom teaching experience virtually

Education record

• Upright Citizens Brigade – Improv Conservatory – completed • The Second City – Hollywood, Conservatory – completed • iO West –.

Bs, Scientific And Technical Communication

Activities and Societies: Women's Crew Team, Minnesota Technolog Magazine Writer, Center For Outdoor Adventure - Guide

Certificate, Covid-19 Compliance