Chase Lo (they/them) is an actor, writer, director, and movement artist whose creative journey spans Toronto, Montreal, and Taipei. Their directorial debut, Something’s Phishy—which they co-wrote and starred in—won outACTRAto’s Queer Your Stories Pitch and had its world premiere at the 2024 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival. Something’s Phishy will have its U.S. premiere at the upcoming NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Monthly Film Festival in July 2025. Chase is currently part of the Reelworld Screen Institute’s Emerging 20 Program, where they are developing their first feature film, Glimmer—a neo-noir psychological thriller about a people-pleasing banker who enters the world of sex work and becomes a vigilante to save their missing friend. As an actor, Chase recently appeared in the hit series Doc and voiced Okul in Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
Photo by Jaclyn Vogl, MUA by Olive Grey, Styling by Mars Alexander