Spotlight Interview with Cindy Chu

Cindy Chu is an award-winning writer, actress, and producer from Queens.

Her feature script, 69 BAYARD is a 2020 Northeast Filmmakers Lab Fellow, in the 2nd round of 2021 Sundance Development Track, and the 2019 winner of Pitch Royale (featuring judges: Baz Luhrmann and Jason Blum). Her pilot script ANNA WONG was in 2nd round for 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab, and her comedy series, QUEENS premiered at the Omni Cultural TV Fest and won the 2019 Best TV Pilot Comedy. She received 2019 Professional of the Year from NALFO.

Starting out as an actress, she received an MFA degree from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, and performed in Off-Broadway theaters, commercials, webseries, and more. She is a member of NYWIFT and Asian American Screenwriting Workshop.