Nicole Asava

Nicole Asava

Nicole Asava (she/her/they/them, formerly Nicole Pasquale) is a queer LA/NYC based Thai-Chinese-American actor, comedian, director, and writer from Anchorage, Alaska and Brooklyn, New York. They did improvisation and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCBT) in New York and Second City in Chicago, and in 2016 was a NBC/UCBT Diversity Scholar finalist. She performed in many popular NYC comedy shows including Asian AF, the improvised This American Life, Jo Firestone's Live Dubbed Sitcoms, Kaleidoscope, Dr. Brothers, and Crisis On Ski Mountain.

As a theatre director Nicole's directed over two dozen comedy shows and plays with Boogiemanja, UCBT, and the Player's Theater Short Play Festival. She's made comedy videos for Elite Daily, MTV, Fuse, Broadway Video, College Humor, Scary Mommy, Betches, The Dad, and with millennial news and culture website Mic.com as a host for their daily news video series Mic Check. For over three years at UCBT they hosted the popular WOKE AF: A Mind-Opening Variety Show, an all-inclusive comedy show where artists and activists share social issues they're passionate about. In 2020 they took WOKE AF and transformed it into AMP to be a finalist in the Yes And Laughter Lab pitch program. Shortly after they were selected to write and perform in the Viacom CBS 2021 Showcase! Today you can see Nicole on HBO's Barry, The Undoing, the reality show My Mom Your Dad, as well as on Younger, and lots of projects they did purely for fun and the swag. For more visit www.nicoleasava.com

Movies for Nicole Asava...

Title: Marriage of Inconvenience
Character: Angela
Released: April 6, 2023
Type: TV
New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide their identities from the dangerous people who want them dead. Franklin is an even-tempered English professor who prides himself on his attention to detail in every area of his carefully structured life. Owen is a messy, street-smart dropout with anger issues, forced into a life of crime against his will. About the only thing Franklin and Owen have in common is that they're gay. Now, living together in a very small house as Mr. and Mr. Fulton, they find they have something else in common: they can't stand each other. But both men have complicated pasts, with some very bad people relentlessly hunting them down. With their lives on the line, Owen and Franklin are stuck with each other--for better or for worse.
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Marriage of Inconvenience
Title: Marriage of Inconvenience
Released: April 6, 2023
Type: Movie
New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide their identities from the dangerous people who want them dead. Franklin is an even-tempered English professor who prides himself on his attention to detail in every area of his carefully structured life. Owen is a messy, street-smart dropout with anger issues, forced into a life of crime against his will. About the only thing Franklin and Owen have in common is that they're gay. Now, living together in a very small house as Mr. and Mr. Fulton, they find they have something else in common: they can't stand each other. But both men have complicated pasts, with some very bad people relentlessly hunting them down. With their lives on the line, Owen and Franklin are stuck with each other--for better or for worse.
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Title: The Undoing
Character: Fundraiser Staff Member
Released: October 25, 2020
Type: TV
Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.
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Snatchers
Title: Snatchers
Character: Lulu (as Nicole Pasquale)
Released: May 29, 2020
Type: Movie
A rough-hewn Mennonite witnesses a meteor rip apart the skies on his farm, leaving behind a smoking crater filled with glowing corn husks. A lesbian couple unknowingly distributes the corn to un-suspecting Brooklynites through their food truck. An FDA agent with FBI dreams tries to track down a mysterious pod he’s only seen on Instagram. A woman in the midst of a late-20’s crisis is cleaning toilets when she starts noticing her co-workers changing. Each of them has a key to the puzzle. But can they figure out a way to stop an alien invasion before it’s too late? Or will they, too, succumb to the pods’ alluring glow? And how will they tell the difference between a Snatcher and a regular Brooklyn weirdo?
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Title: Younger
Character: Dawn
Released: March 31, 2015
Type: TV
Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 and lands a job as an assistant at Empirical Press. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and her best friend Maggie share.