ROLE CALL
CELESTE DEN
PROFESSION: Actor
HOMETOWNS: Taipei, Taiwan, and Miami
CURRENT HOME: Echo Park, Los Angeles
KNOWN FOR: Den performed in the 2017 Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, directed by Julie Taymor, the world premiere of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans at Cambridge, Mass.’s American Repertory Theater and the Young Vic in London, and the world premiere of Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love at Costa Mesa, Calif.’s South Coast Repertory in 2014. Also that year, she was a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s acting company.
WHAT’S NEXT: Den is writing a collection of autobiographical stories about growing up as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S., and she plans on developing the collection into a solo performance piece.
WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL: “Celeste is fantastic in the room,” says director Leigh Silverman. The two worked together on productions of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Rep, as well as at the 2013 Hong Kong Arts Festival. “She is a funny, emotionally grounded, and totally connected performer.”
: “I’ve always been drawn to theatre as a place where people from all walks of life come together to build something greater than ourselves,” says Den, whose sense of belonging in the theatre has only deepened over time.
