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Barbie Wu is a Taiwanese actor, director, and educator based in Portland, Oregon.

Currently serving as a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre and a visiting assistant professor at Reed College.

About

I have over seven years of experience acting professionally and have been working with theatre companies locally and nationally.

Projects

Regional productions- The Chinese Lady, Today Is My Birthday, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Everybody, Magellanica, The Wolves.

National Productions- Readings- Chapters of a Floating Life
(ANPF), Final Boarding Call (Powerhouse Theater).

Commercial Work

Directing Work

The Last Croissant by Veronica Tjioe
Reed College Main Stage Theatre/ April 2023
“A clown tragedy about bears, fire, paper cranes, and that time when you were saving something, and you didn’t enjoy it soon enough.” Photo Credit- Nina Johnson

Photo Credit- Nina Johnson
Photo Credit- Nina Johnson

TBA by Carla Ching
University of Portland Theatre / October 2023
When Silas Park’s girlfriend leaves him, he becomes a shut-in, pumping out blistering autobiographical stories in his little Brooklyn apartment. Just as Silas finds himself unexpectedly on the verge of literary stardom as the next Asian American wunderkind, his adopted brother Finn shows up on his doorstep, accusing Silas of stealing his life. A play in two acts, in the crevice between fact and fiction. Photo Credit- Ryan Reynolds

Photo Credit- Ryan Reynolds
Photo Credit- Ryan Reynolds
Photo Credit- Ryan Reynolds

Community Conversations

Part of the 2022 Oregon Rises Above Hate panel with artist Carey Wong.

Local news interview for performing in The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh.

Conversation with Portland activist, Bruce Poinsette on working as an artist of color.

Please email Crystal Walen for film/tv/commercial inquiries.

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