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"Why There are 'No' Asians on Television"Part 4: Conclusion: APA Entertainment Industry Quiz, "Top 10 Ways to Never See Asian Americans on TV"
Top Ten Ways to Absolutely, Positively Keep APAs off TV1. Grab the head of the Screen Actor's Guild Diversity Department by the throat at a 'minority' showcase after you've overturned a table and start choking him. Do it in front of about 200 people so you can't deny it. 2. Protest and and all Asian roles that you yourself have been considered for, but did not land 3. Talk about the Great White Plot really loudly in ABC, NBC or CBS Executive offices 4. Start attacking all APA network executives with the label banana-assed sellout when they do not agree with you. Or when they go to work for FOX. Or marry white guys. 5. When you join committees that intend to "make a difference," be sure to start as such infighting as possible so that nothing can be accomplished 6. Protest Asian American theater companies who continually push the creative limits because they are portraying "negative APA images" 7. Make sure that you proclaim the opinion "hapas" involved in entertainment projects negates the term "diversity" because we all know "dem bitches is white." 8. Don't study acting, dance, art, music or anything that is vaguely creative -- just jump right in there from engineering or business because "anyone can do it" 9. Absolutely never, ever mentor anyone less experienced than yourself -- and generally avoid other Asians like SARS 10. French kiss Jay Leno after he makes yet another joke about APAs eating dogs
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Erin
May Ling Quill is an actress, singer, director and producer of
both stage and film productions. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon, she
was member of the original Broadway cast of the 2004 TONY
Award-winning musical, Avenue Q, and has also played Lady Thiang in The King & I opposite Debby Boone. Other credits
include NYPD Blue, girlsclub, China Dolls,
Godspell, Anything Goes, and numerous workshops. Former
Vice Chair for the Screen Actors' Guild Asian American Subcommittee
and a member on its National EEOC, she consulted on the revision of
the Asian Language Contract. She is a member of East West Players
and Lodestone Theater Ensemble. In addition to her own sold-out
shows They Shoot Asian Fosse Dancers, Don't They? and When
My Slanted Eyes are Smiling, I Can't See a Damn Thing, Quill has
produced Lodestone Theater Ensemble/FOX's All American APA Comedy
Jam and, most recently, the upcoming short film POLLEN,
starring Alec Mapa. She recently shot a pilot the Bravo pilot,
Dishin'. Recent and upcoming projects include the pilot of
