Beau Sia is a Tony Award-winning slam poet. Born to Chinese immigrants from the Philippines in Ohio and raised in Oklahoma City, he moved to New York City for college, earning a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In New York, he began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which led to his joining the 1996 Nuyorican National Poetry Slam team and being featured in the influential slam poetry documentary SlamNation. Sia is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion and the author of Well Played (2020), The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time (2010), and A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge (1998), a satiric response to Jewel’s poetry collection A Night Without Armor (1999). Sia’s poetry and performances often challenge Asian American stereotypes. Sia’s work has been anthologized in How to Make a Living as a Poet (2005), Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (2000), and Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry (1998), among other collections. He has appeared in films, including Rachel Getting Married (2008), Hitch (2005), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004), and appeared on Broadway in Def Poetry Jam (2003), for which he won a Tony Award. Sia’s work has been covered by publications including Salon.com and the New York Daily News. He has performed all over the world and facilitated workshops for Urban Word NYC and Youth Speaks. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Beau Sia(1976년생) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 슬램, Brave New Voices 2010, Goldfarb가 있으며, 그 외에도 토니상, Mr. 히치: 당신을 위한 데이트 코치, 레이첼, 결혼하다, 맨츄리안 켄디데이트, 어바웃 리키, Paint It Black, 살인 파티, Hits, Dreamstates, SlamNation 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2016년 Dreamstates에 출연했다. 2016년 Paint It Black에서 Phil 역을 맡았다. 2015년 어바웃 리키에서 Desmond 역을 맡았다.