Chanelle Wang is an actress, writer, and director.

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Chanelle is a Spring 2026 selected fellow for Skylight Theatre’s playwrights lab. She is currently developing her play, Persimmon Season at The Imperial Palace, a highly fictionalized dark comedy about the inner weavings of palace life during Qing Dynasty China. It’s like Hulu’s The Great meets HBO’s Game of Thrones, but Chinese.

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In July 2025, she starred in a sold out production of Peerless (written by Jiehae Park) where she played the lead role of “L” — Peerless is a darkly comedic take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth following Asian American twins M and L who plot the murder of their classmate.

She was a cohort member of the 2025 IAMA Actor’s Intensive facilitated by award winning Los Angeles theater company IAMA Theatre Company.

Her short film, Color Me Wicked, a dark comedy about two serial killers falling in love at a paint and sip shop, wrapped the film festival circuit having screened at festivals including the Oscar-qualifying 2025 Cinequest Festival and the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

As a writer, Chanelle was a selected mentee for the 2022 Unlock Her Potential mentorship program, where she was under the mentorship of writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Marvel’s THOR: Love and Thunder and Netflix’s Someone Great and Do Revenge). She was also a fellow for the 2021 Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellowship. She was also a staff writer on the series, Cross My Mind, a romantic drama helmed by Hong Kong media giant TVB and WongFu Productions.

You might’ve seen Chanelle on CBS’ S.W.A.T. or ABC’s General Hospital. In the Youtube space, you might recognize her from WongFu Production’s film “A Long Time Coming” about an Asian American family discussing Black Lives Matter in the midst of a global pandemic.

Her films Evan At The Crack of Dawn and To Borrow, To Keep were official selections at film festivals such as the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Seattle Asian Film Festival, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, and Taiwanese American Film Festival.

Chanelle is repped by Circle Management & Triniti Management.