Nicole Asava Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Nicole Asava
Acting
Biography
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
Filmography Movies
Acting
Snatchers
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?
It Was Sometimes Like This
Six slice-of-life, ultra-short films depicting true memories from the lives of the actor-writers.
Packages
Packages is the debut project from first-time writer / director Nick Barat. Described as a “nightmare comedy” and “Franz Kafka with an Amazon Prime account,” this short film is the latest creative evolution for Nick, who has spent two decades in culture as a DJ and producer, graphic designer, co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records and editor at The FADER Magazine. “With my background, it would have been obvious to start with a film about ‘music,’ but Packages is still very much my sensibility, my rhythm and the way I see the world. It’s an exploration of dream logic and visual storytelling – stylized, surreal and satirical, mashing up genres while cracking some jokes in the process.” Packages is currently submitting to film festivals for a premier in 2026.