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American-Asian musician and actor, #americanasianactor, native New Yorker. Geoff's first musical experience, the local church choir at age 10. Studied contemporary Afro-American music at SUNY Old Westbury under jazz professor Makanda McIntryre. His first theater experience was as musical director for Pan-Asian Repertory@La Mama, Bullet-Headed Birds, directed by Tisha Chang. After college Geoff taught music to teenagers at Project Reach in Chinatown, NY, but left teaching to answer the call of the vibrant New York rock music scene, joining The Heat as bassist and composer for this multiracial rock band was ultimately signed to Polygram Records. The Heat regularly played Friday and Saturday gigs at clubs such as CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, and also toured England and Wales. After The Heat, Geoff co-founded another rock band, Fierce Jones, which also played at CBGBs - this time Geoff was playing guitar.

The acting bug bit hard when Geoff studied drama with Mako (East/West Players, Pacific Overtures) and he took independent classes taught by a member of Actors Studio. In 2017, he attended a master actors class taught by Tzi Ma.

In 2013 he composed/recorded the music score for the short film Tu-Na House, which won a Golden Eagle award in NYC, dir Bea Soong. He is featured as an actor/musician in the films Year of The Dragon and Magic Sticks (German).

Most recently Geoff is seen playing two roles, Knowledge and Liu The Ancient, in the action-comedy feature film Made In Chinatown which premiered at the Newark International Film Festival, 9/2019.

2019 - Geoff played a co-star role with James Spader on The Blacklist.

2018 - In the comedy series Nightcap, Geoff guest starred with Bob Saget.

On The Daily Show (2013) Geoff played the role of Zhi Peng, Jon Stewart's Chinese bandleader.

Geoff worked as a stunt double in Black Rain (dir Ridley Scott) and in The Other Guys (dir Andy McKay) as well doing his own stunts in Taking Manhattan (dir Kirk Wong).

In the award winning feature film The Exquisite Corpse Project (dir Ben Popik), a documentary-comedy, Geoff plays the three combo-characters of Mr. Kim.

Additional: 2019, Geoff is featured in five indie films, "Eugenia and John" , dir Hossein Keshavar, "Paradise City", dir John Marco Lopez, Snakeeater, dir Tori Knos, I Want More, I Want Less by Bryce Richardson and he appears in "The Garden Left Behind", dir Flavio Alves.

In 2014 "Revenge of the Green Dragons" was released and Geoff is featured in the role of Charlie Lo, a gambling house owner. He was honored to work with well-known Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and co-director Andrew Loo, exec producer Martin Scorsese.

Geoff can also be seen in three web series, "The Streets", "Queering" and "Stills". Additionally, in Spring 2016 he played a featured role the web series, "Mahjongg" (dir Troy Antonio). He also is seen in two music videos by renown Asian rapper China Mac. In 2019,

(August 2011) <ul><li>Produced pop song &quot;Marry You&quot; recorded by the band Fierce Jones.</li></ul>

(January 2012) Geoff co-leads a staged reading of &quot;Aftermath&quot; by Lionelle Hamanaka. Character: George, a Viet Nam veteran whose son returns home from the Irag war with severe PTSD. St. Location: Paul-St. Andrew&#39;s West End Theatre, NYC. Directed by Howard Planzer.

(January 2013) Geoff played the lead/title role of Grandpa in &quot;Kikki and Grandpa and Baby&quot;, director Yutaka Okada, a musical-comedy off-Broadway that ran January 5th through 25th, 2013 at the American Theater of Actors, NYC.

(September 2013) Geoff co-leads in the role Mr. Lu in the 3-character play &quot;A Shanghai Hand&quot;, written/directed by Dominick Rossetti, also starring Bern Cohen and Paige Elizabeth Smith

(2012 - 2019) Geoff takes every opportunity to engage in Theatrical Staged Readings: (2018) Interabang ensemble: Multiple roles director Charles Quittner / Loading Dock Theatre (2018 )The Organizer ensemble: Multiple roles director Jennifer Tuttle - Crossways Theatre Group, NYC (2016) The Guides lead: Hank director Angelica Rivera -Akademea Theatre (2013) 10,000 Happiness ensemble: Grandfather director Johnny Ma - Miller Theatre / Columbia University (2014) TerrorIsMe supporting: Sherman Fong director Brian O&#39;Connor -Abingdon Theatre Company (2012) Aftermath lead: George director Howard Pflanzer -St. Paul-St. Andrew&#39;s West End Thtr

(11/2020) Geoff played HYH and others in a full theater livestream production of David Henry Hwang&#39;s Yellowface. The play was produced by Play Upstream theater company and directed by Jade Terrell and Russell Guerra.

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