Nicole Asava

Nicole Asava (she/her/they/them, formerly Nicole Pasquale) is a queer LA/NYC based Thai-Chinese-American actor, comedian, director, and writer from Anchorage, Alaska and Brooklyn, New York. They did improvisation and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCBT) in New York and Second City in Chicago, and in 2016 was a NBC/UCBT Diversity Scholar finalist. She performed in many popular NYC comedy shows including Asian AF, the improvised This American Life, Jo Firestone's Live Dubbed Sitcoms, Kaleidoscope, Dr. Brothers, and Crisis On Ski Mountain. As a theatre director Nicole's directed over two dozen comedy shows and plays with Boogiemanja, UCBT, and the Player's Theater Short Play Festival. She's made comedy videos for Elite Daily, MTV, Fuse, Broadway Video, College Humor, Scary Mommy, Betches, The Dad, and with millennial news and culture website Mic.com as a host for their daily news video series Mic Check. For over three years at UCBT they hosted the popular WOKE AF: A Mind-Opening