ABOUT
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Jaine Ye is an Asian-American actress and writer. As a a transracial adoptee and third culture kid, she is an advocate for diversity and inclusion within the film and theater industries. She sees deliberate genuine representation as essential to honest, successful, and effective storytelling and production.
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As a teenager, Jaine first discovered acting when she was cast in a west coast regional production of Les Miserables. She then went on to study acting, english literature, and dance at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. There she performed in shows such as Hamlet, M. Butterfly, Private Lives, and Pirates of Penzance. Immediately after graduating she moved to Oregon to perform in Oregon Contemporary Theatre's production of Avenue Q.
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Now based in New York City, she made her NYC debut as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, and has since gone on to make her Off-Broadway debut in Comfort Women: A New Musical, and her Shakespeare in the Park debut with The Public Theater's internationally recognized production of Julius Caesar, directed by Oskar Eustis. She has also starred in the award-winning short film Yuna's Lunch and the webseries Experience Curve.
A FIGHTER
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Jaine trains in Muay Thai and Kickboxing with Vinny Panza, and mixed martial arts, stage combat, and on-camera fight choreo with SAGA Action Arts and Sordelet Inc. in NYC - with focuses on kickboxing, Kali, Kali double sticks, Muay Thai, knife, and swordfighting. Her fight training is a mixture of real world application, fitness, and onscreen film and theater fighting techniques.
THE MISCELLANEOUS
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Even with acting, screenwriting, and martial arts as her main creative outlets, Jaine continues to practice and train in many areas. These miscellaneous skills include but are not limited to dance (ballet, modern, contemporary, hip hop), singing (soprano w/ belt, musical theater, folk, rock, pop), voiceover, gymnastics tumbling, and modeling.
