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Jack Ong
Actor,
Writer and Activist
Co-Organizes
AACTION
Send Email to Jack:
JackOng@AsianConnections.com.
Veteran
actor, writer and activist Jack Ong co-organized a group in Fall,
1999 called Asian American Coalition for Total Inclusion On the
Networks (AACTION) in response to news of U.S. network television's
new 1999-2000 prime time schedule which featured not a single nonwhite
leading character or theme on any of the 26 new series on the four
major networks.
Ong
joined many others who have endorsed an official statement jointly
released by AACTION, East West Players and the Media Action Network
for Asian Americans (MANAA). AsianConnections.com posted a message
board and delivered email from its members wishing to join the more
than 1,000 people who endorsed this Statement by signing the endorsement
list.
Ong
has guest starred on such TV shows as "Touched By An Angel," "Chicago
Hope," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Friends," "The Simpsons," "VIP,"
and co-starred in the world premiere stage production of "The Reunification
Hotel" by Julian Barry, award-winning author of "Lenny." Ong is
Executive Director of the Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation, a humanitarian
organization which he co-founded with Dr. Ngor five years before
the Oscar-winning Cambodian actor was killed. Ong is producing a
documentary and writing a play about Dr. Ngor's life, murder and
legacy of humanitarian work.
A
former member of the Screen Actors Guild board of directors, Ong
currently co-chairs the SAG/AFTRA Asian Pacific Islander caucus,
serves on the East West Players new Theatre Campaign, directs a
drama ministry at the Pacific Christian Center in Manhattan Beach,
CA, and is active with Amnesty International and various human rights
advocacy groups. He is writing and performing a series of
Asian fairy tales with Raw Space Studios and Pacific Radio in New
York.
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