1. Chris Tashima is co-founder of the entertainment company Cedar Grove Productions and Artistic Director of its Asian American theatre company, Cedar Grove OnStage.
17 Facts About Chris Tashima
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Tashima directed, co-wrote, and starred in the 26-minute film Visas and Virtue for which he and producer Chris Donahue won the 1998 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.
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Chris Tashima lived in Pasadena, where he began Suzuki Method violin at age 6.
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Chris Tashima's family moved to Berkeley, where he lived for nine years, attending The College Preparatory School.
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Chris Tashima returned to Southern California, graduating from John Marshall High School.
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Chris Tashima attended UC Santa Cruz, where he studied film production.
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Chris Tashima attended UCLA, and took additional filmmaking courses at Visual Communications.
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Chris Tashima started his acting career at East West Players in 1985.
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Chris Tashima is the son of US Circuit Judge A Wallace Tashima.
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Chris Tashima has appeared in Sherwood Hu's Lani Loa - The Passage with Angus Macfadyen, and Rea Tajiri's Strawberry Fields with Suzy Nakamura.
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Chris Tashima starred opposite Tamlyn Tomita in the 1995 AFI short, Requiem, directed by actress Elizabeth Sung.
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Chris Tashima played the real-life historical figure, journalist and civil rights advocate Sei Fujii in George Shaw's and Jeffrey Gee Chin's short film, Lil Tokyo Reporter.
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Chris Tashima's stage directing credits include the world premiere of Dan Kwong's Be Like Water produced by East West Players, in association with Cedar Grove OnStage, in September 2008.
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Chris Tashima has directed several shows with the Grateful Crane Ensemble, including the world premiere of Soji Kashiwagi's Nihonmachi: The Place To Be, presented in San Francisco in 2006.
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Chris Tashima is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in the Short Films Branch, and was elected Branch Governor in June, 2024.
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Chris Tashima belongs to the Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors' Equity Association and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
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Chris Tashima won a 1995 Ovation Award for Best Set Design in a Smaller Theater, for Sweeney Todd, and a 1992 Drama-Logue Award for Scenic Design for Into The Woods, both at East West Players.