KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is an award-winning spoken word poet, multidisciplinary theater artist, and filmmaker who has been featured at over 500 venues worldwide including the White House, World Social Forum, Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Tyra Banks' Flawsome Ball & three seasons of "Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry."

Recognition includes New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Media That Matters War & Peace Award, Asian American Arts Alliance, Asian Women Giving Circle, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, AngryAsianMan.com's "30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30," Idealist.org in NYC's Top 40 New Yorkers That Make A Positive Social Change, and HBO's "East of Main Street: Asians Aloud." Her full-length plays "Formosa" and "Say You Heard My Echo" have been presented at New York Live Arts, Ars Nova, HERE, Experimental Station, Museum of Chinese in America, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Asian Arts Initiative, El Museo Del Barrio and more. For more info,http://www.yellowgurl.com.