Alec Mapa

Alejandro Mapa, a Filipino-American, got his professional break as "Alec Mapa" when he was cast to understudy, and then succeeded BD Wong in the Broadway production of 'M. Butterfly'. Mapa later played the role on the national tour. Mapa returned to Broadway in a 1992 adaptation of 'L'Hôtel du libre échange' (by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières), re-titled, 'A Little Hotel on the Side'. The next year, Mapa was back on Broadway in a Stratford Festival inspired production of Shakespeare's 'Timon of Athens'. Off-Broadway, he earned a nomination at the 2001 Lucille Lortel Awards for his performance in Jessica Hagedorn's play 'Dogeaters', and was featured in every play in the 'Whitelands' trilogy, a series of plays about gay Asian men written by Chay Yew: 'Porcelain' (1992), 'A Language of Their Own' (1995), and 'Wonderland' (1999). On television, he has had guest appearances on numerous programs, including "The Jamie Foxx Show" (1996), "Roseanne" (1988), "Seinfeld" (1989), "NYPD