Josephine Chiang is a Taiwanese-American film actor based in NYC

Some recent projects
  1. Clean Slate
  2. By The Roots
  3. Human Theories
  4. They’re Packing
  5. The Eye
  6. Between Two Rivers
  7. One Day I’ll Open My Fist
 ...and more past work

Materials
  1. Headshots
  2. Resume
  3. Reels
Contact



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Clean Slate
Director Emily May Jampel
Writers Josephine Chiang and Joyce Keokham
Producers Yoko Kohmoto and Liat Rubin
Executive Producer Timothy Tau


FESTIVALS
Aspen Shortsfest 2025 (World Premiere)
Palm Springs ShortFest 2025
Frameline International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025
Nashville Film Festival 2025
NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025
Queer Screen Mardi Gras 2026 (International Premiere)
Nitehawk Shorts Fest 2026
Cleveland Film Festival 2026
Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival 2026
 PRESS
A4’s The Amp -  The Cast and Crew of ‘Clean Slate’ on Expanding Queer AAPI Stories
The Daily Californian - ‘Clean Slate’ emphasizes amicable strife in entertainment, queerness
The Daily Californian - Josephine Chiang talks ‘Clean Slate,’ coming of age in Berkeley
Glass Closet - the reality of being a nonbinary actor |  glass closet (ft. Josephine Chiang)




Two Asian nonbinary best friends and actors must make some sacrifices when they go up for the same breakout role.
Short film
Lead role as “Josephine”

Also featuring: Joyce Keokham, Sureni Weerasekera, Justin Rodriguez (Pose, Awkwafina is Nora from the Queens)

By The Roots 
Writer and Director Madison Young
Executive Producer Silas Howard 


FESTIVALS
Beverly Hills Film Festival Closing Night Film (World Premiere)
PRESS
Variety - ‘Ally Sheedy, Emily Robinson, Brant Daugherty and Margaret Cho Lead Queer Feminist Biopic ‘By the Roots’ (EXCLUSIVE)’
Cinema Femme - ‘Loosening the Knots: Madison Young on “By the Roots”’


When San-Francisco-based gallerist and sexual revolutionary Madison Young brings her dominant home to Ohio to meet her conservative family, she is forced to hide the life she has made and confront the shadows of the past that inspired her to leave.
Feature film
Supporting role as “Blake”

Also featuring: Emily Robinson (Eighth Grade), Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars), Margaret Cho (All-American Girl), Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) and more

Human Theories
Writer and Director Jess Zeidman
Producers Tam Sackman, Arno Mokros, and Yoko Kohmoto


FESTIVALS
Tribeca Film Festival 2026 (World Premiere) PRESS
Esquire -  ‘The 45 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026’


Human Theories is a comedy of interconnected scenes that capture the offbeat, amusing ways loneliness manifests in modern city life. 
Feature film
Ensemble cast - “Luisa”

Also featuring: Joanna Arnow, Sophie Zucker, Joey Dardano, Elise Kibler, Sofia Dobrushin and more

They’re Packing
Director Gabi Carruba
Writer and Producer Noah Wolfe 


NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025 (World Premiere)
Miami Film Festival 2026


A group of queers head upstate for the weekend to learn how to shoot a gun.

 Short film
Lead role as “B”

Also featuring: Leyna Bloom (Port Authority, Pose), Adam Kantor (Rent), Jo Ellen Pellman (The Prom), John Ellison Conlee (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, High Maintenance), Ishmael Gonzalez (And Juliet)

The Eye
Director Joshua Elias Palmer 
Writers Joshua Elias Palmer and Alessandro Sassi
Produced by Nevin Kelly-Fair 


Filmed Winter 2024
In post-production


In the wake of the suicide of their dear friend, a group tries to piece themselves back together as tensions run high and truths emerge.
Feature film
Lead role as “Emma”

Also featuring: Nick Saxton, Maximillian Isaacs, AJ Molder

Between Two Rivers
Writer and Director Kevin V. Doan
Producer Devon Tayman


Filmed Fall 2025
In post-production


Everything is falling apart for Hannah, a late-twenties aspiring actor, as she tosses and turns in the turbulent seasons of relationships, death, and the ever present oppressive gloom of trying to make something of herself before turning thirty.
Feature film
Lead role as “Dylan”

Also featuring: Sidney Rose White, Luca Apple, Sam Besca, Lissa Carandang-Sweeney, Lynn Kim Do and more

One Day I’ll Open My Fist
Writer and Director Dylan Rizzo
Producer Abyn Reabe


Asian American International Film Festival 2025 (World Premiere)
Rooftop Films 2025 


A young Chinese American woman who turns to theft as an
act of frustration towards Chinatown’s gentrification.



Short film
Lead role as “Lulu”

Also featuring: Stella Jiler