| Timothy Tau | |
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| Born | Timothy Tau Torrance, California, United States |
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Timothy Tau is an American Writer and Filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Hyphen (magazine), Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest for his short story, "Land of Origin" (See the October 2010 issue of Playboy Magazine). He has also Directed a number of short films that have screened at various film festivals worldwide.
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Tau's short story "The Understudy" is a comic-surrealist story about an Asian American Actor named Jack Chang struggling in Los Angeles who must deal with the sudden emergence of a mysterious new understudy on a production of a play (Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros) he is working on. It is told in the Second-person narrative. The story was published in the Winter 2011 Issue of Hyphen (magazine) and won Grand Prize in the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest, the only national Pan-Asian American Writing Competition of its kind.[1][2] Award-winning novelist Porochista Khakpour, one of the Judges, called the story a "psychological thriller successfully pulled off in second person -- alone a feat worthy of mention -- and [a] cautionary tale about what happens when you entirely live for and therefore ultimately lose everything but your art. At surface glance, it can make one think ‘Chinese thespian Black Swan,’ but the wild, brainy, dark and dazzling prose is in a league of its own." MacArthur Fellow and Award-Winning novelist Yiyun Li said "Full of vibrating energy, ‘The Understudy’ is an exciting story to read; better, the excitement does not fizz off but makes a reader think afterward."[3]
Tau's short story "Land of Origin" is a love-crime and neo-noir story about a Taiwanese American professional/ex-pat named Dante Chang who lives an empty and jaded life in Los Angeles, and who goes back to Kaohsiung, Taiwan to get mixed up with betel nut girls (falling in love with one in the process) and a gang known as "The Heavenly Alliance." The story tracks his descent, like the Dante of The Divine Comedy and The Inferno, into the sprawling neon-lit criminal underworld of urban Taiwan. The story won Second Prize in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest.[4][5][6]
Tau has also Directed several short films under his Production Company, Firebrand Hand Creative [1]. "The Case" [2] is a Genre-Hybrid of a short film that melds genres such as Film Noir, Sci-Fi, Horror Camp (in the vein of Ed Wood) and Spaghetti Westerns, and which stars Max Phyo, Cyndee San Luis, Hidekun Hah and Oliver Seitz. It has screened at The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, The San Diego Asian Film Festival, The Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (Court Metrage), and The Capalbio International Short Film Festival in Rome, Italy, founded by Michelangelo Antonioni.
He has also Written and Directed a Web Series entitled "Quantum Cops" [3], a Buddy-Cop Comedy that he has Written and Created with Joshua Murphy [4] and which Stars Kelvin Han Yee, Feodor Chin, Joshua Murphy, Meiling Melançon, David Huynh, and Ina-Alice Kopp. He has also Written and Directed a short film entitled "Incentivus" about a Writer (Archie Kao) and Imagination, Hallucinations and Dreams. The film Stars Archie Kao, Meiling Melançon, Jessika Van, and Cyndee San Luis.
In 2011, he Directed a Music Video for Youtube Sensation and Singer-Songwriter-Actress Megan Lee for her second original single, "Destiny." The music video also stars Kelvin Han Yee, Megan Lee, Jessika Van, Yul Spencer and Ina-Alice Kopp.
Tau is a graduate of The University of California, Berkeley,[7] The University of California, Los Angeles[8] and The University of California, Hastings College of the Law[9]