Conceived 3 months in Hoisan, China (that’s the first Chinese to arrive in America), lived in her mother’s womb during the 3-month ship ordeal to America, and 3 months later, born as a near-Yankee baby on July 7^th - the year doesn’t matter - in Seattle, WA!  Lori first had ambitions to become a gymnast, or a costume designer, a violinist, but ended up a writer, self-taught actor, dancer, singer, celebrating her 51^st  year in all these combined passions on January 17^th, the day the Greyhound Bus rolled into NYC and the YWCA. She quickly landed her first show, on Broadway, in the chorus of “Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen”, a musical adaptation of “The Teahouse of the August Moon”. She was quickly plucked out of the chorus and cast as the female comic lead when choreographer, Ron “Cabaret” Field created a 5-minute dance solo for her. Nine years and many bread & butter jobs later, she landed her 2^nd Broadway show, “G.R. Point”, opposite Michael Moriarty, and another 9 years later, landed her 3^rd Broadway show, “M. Butterfly”, which introduced and skyrocketed the career of newcomer, BD Wong. The latest pre-Broadway gig, “Half Time”, the project that the late Marvin Hamlisch had worked on before his death, starring Georgia Engel, Donna McKechnie, and Andre De Shields, had its out-of-town presentation at the Paper Mill Playhouse.  In-between these intervals, there was Off-Broadway: “The Primary English Class”, opposite Diane Keaton, 7 seasons at the famed O’Neill Theater Center, working with fellow rising-star actors: Meryl Streep, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary Alice, some television gigs: “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific”, starring Glenn Close, Harry Connick, Jr. (she had the opportunity to play the role of Bloody Mary in 3 stage productions, one at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage garnered her the Helen Hayes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical); as Iris, 2^nd season semi-regular on “Roseanne”; 7 seasons as Chang in “Orange is the New Black”; films: “She-Devil”, “What About Bob?”, “Mickey Blue Eyes” (her single scene with Hugh Grant was included in a collection of funniest comedy scenes). The joy and privilege of being within the cast of “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens” rounds out the celestial cycle of affectionately-proclaimed “Asian-American Meteorics” – ones who shot up like meteors from their early beginnings, in all directions of the arts. What a thrill, what an honor, this ride!