Film producer and author Abigail Hing Wen along with actors Ashley Liao & Chelsea Zhang discuss the romantic comedy Love in Taipei, based on Abigail’s book Loveboat, Taipei. They’ll share how they brought the novel to the big screen as well as the importance of bringing the untold AAPI story with an all-AAPI cast to mass audiences.
Love in Taipei follows sheltered young American Ever Wong as she discovers first love during a wild, fun and unforgettable summer in Taipei, Taiwan.
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About the Panelists:
Abigail Hing Wen is a New York Times best selling author, a film producer and a woman-in-tech leader specializing in artificial intelligence. She is a frequent speaker on topics of leadership, equity, representation, ethics and creative careers across various venues and companies including Google, the California Commonwealth Club, META, Facebook AI, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Target, Twitch, Munger Tolle, the Barnes & Noble, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth and Berkeley.

Abigail is the author of the New York Times best selling novel, Loveboat, Taipei and the companion novels Loveboat Reunion and Loveboat Forever. She serves as executive producer for the film adaptation Love in Taipei. Her work has been profiled in print and tv, including Entertainment Weekly, Bloomberg TV, Forbes, Fortune, Cosmopolitan, The Hollywood Reporter, Seventeen, NBCNews, NBC Bay Area, ABC7 and the World Journal. She holds a BA from Harvard, where she took coursework in film, ethnic studies and government. She also holds a JD from Columbia and MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Ashley Liao can currently be seen in the Lionsgate feature The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, opposite Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage, and in her first leading role as Ever Wong in the Paramount+ feature Love in Taipei. She played the teenage version of Ali Wong in the Netflix romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe and as Princess Eleanor in the Disney+ original movie Secret Society of Second Born Royals. Ashley was a series regular in the Apple TV+ series Physical, opposite Rose Byrne. Best known for her role as Lola in the Netflix series Fuller House, Liao has also guest starred on numerous series including N.C.I.S., N.C.I.S.: Los Angeles, Speechless, Fresh Off the Boat, and Bad Teacher. She had recurring roles on the Tina Fey produced NBC series Great News and The Kicks on Amazon Prime.
Chelsea Zhang plays Sophia Ha in Love in Taipei and has been acting since she was 15, appearing in various shows like Daybreak (Netflix) and Titans (Max) as Rose Wilson/Ravager. She comes from Pittsburgh, PA and later studied Business at USC.
Moderated by Oskar Yao.