Co-hosted with China Institute of America
About this Event
The Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
Fireside Chat with BD Wong and David Henry Huang on “Perspectives on Careers in Arts and Entertainment”
Followed by an In-Person Advice and Networking Event
April 8, 2026 from 6 pm ET to 7:30 pm ET
Co-hosted by the Committee of 100 and China Institute of America
Location: China Institute of America at 100 Washington Street, New York City
We are pleased to invite you to the 56th event organized by the Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative. This in-person event featuring a fireside chat with playwright David Henry Huang and actor BD Wong, followed by valuable career advice from experienced and successful Asian Americans in different fields within the Arts and Entertainment industry. Experienced Asian American advisors will host separate individual tables. You are welcome to attend the fireside chat or the advice and networking event or both.
We have held these advice and networking events for different professions in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Previous professions covered include industrial, finance, consulting and investing.
We will start with brief welcoming comments, the fireside chat on “Perspectives on Careers in the Arts and Entertainment”, an introduction of the advisors, and then the advisor tables.
The attendees will have the list of the experienced advisors in advance and will be able to choose which tables they want to visit to get career advice and to ask questions. The attendees will be able to move from table to table as they wish.
In addition, before the event, from 5 pm to 6 pm, China Institute of America will make available their new exhibition The Dancing Goddess: Mei Lanfang in America, that celebrates the legendary Peking opera star’s historic 1930 U.S. trip (which was sponsored by China Institute of America).
This advice and networking event will be a unique opportunity to explore various Arts and Entertainment professions with experienced practitioners and make personal connections.
Discussions will be frank and informative as each table host will answer your questions and share personal insights about their profession, including both the upsides and the downsides.
We hope this event will help those of you who are either just starting out or are in the early to mid-stages of your career to enhance your career planning. We hope that this event will allow you to overcome obstacles and accelerate your career.
If you would like to join us for this networking/advisory event, please register at:
Registration: https://C-4-8-2026.eventbrite.com (If you have trouble registering, please email us at [email protected].)
Regards,
Paul Cheung, President, The Committee of 100
George Geh, CEO, China Institute of America
Peter Young, Chair, Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative, The Committee of 100 member and New York Regional Chair
The Committee of 100
The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 38 years ago. The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of: promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community and advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.
To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org
The Committee of 100, 28 West 44th Street, Suite 1014, New York, NY 10036
China Institute of America
Founded in New York City in 1926 by American educators John Dewey, Paul Monroe, and Chinese scholars Hu Shih (胡適) and Kuo Ping-Wen (郭秉文), China Institute of America is an internationally-renowned U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to deepening the world’s understanding of China through programs in art, business, cuisine, culture, and education.
To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.chinainstitute.org.
China Institute of America, 100 Washington Street, New York, NY 10006
▦ Speaker Bios:
David Henry Hwang
Playwright, Librettist, Screenwriter
Obie and Tony Award Winner
David Henry Hwang is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. He has one Tony Award (M. Butterfly) and three other nominations (Golden Child, Flower Drum Song, and Yellow Face), as well as a Grammy Award (Ainadamar) and one other nomination (Soft Power). Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power) have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
BD Wong
American Actor and Activist
BD WONG won the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Theater World Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Tony Award for his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly. Other Broadway includes the revivals of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Pacific Overtures. Off-Broadway and regional includes Atlantic Theater, Drama Dept., La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, McCarter Theater, The Public Theater.
He has appeared in more than 20 feature films, including Bird Box, Focus, Seven Years in Tibet, 4 Jurassic films, 2 Mulan films, and 2 Father of the Bride films. On television, he has been featured on Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, Mr. Robot (Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award nominations), American Horror Story: Apocalypse, Gotham, 11 seasons of Law & Order: SVU, Oz, and All-American Girl.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
China Institute of America, 100 Washington Street, New York, United States
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