Artist Bio

(Bio as June 2024)

Rammel Chan (Book & Lyrics) is a writer, actor and comedian. Recent acting credits: Lucy & Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Cambodian Rock Band (Victory Gardens) King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre & Kirk Douglas Theatre) Vietgone, Tiger Style! (Writers Theater) Oblivion (Steppenwolf Theater Company) Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Next Act Theatre), as well as numerous TV and film credits, including recently on NBC’s Chicago Med. As a comedian, Rammel has performed at iO, the Annoyance Theatre and the Second City.  He is an alumnus of Stir Friday Night and the sketch group Robot vs. Dinosaur.  He received a Bob Curry Fellowship from the Second City and NBC Universal and was featured at the Breakout Comedy Festival. As a writer, Rammel is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship and his speculative science fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Riksha Magazine, Empyrean Literary Magazine and The Tiger Moth Review.  His play Tomato Tattoo was read at the Goodman Theatre as part of the 2023 APIDA Arts Festival and late received a development grant through Chicago DCASE as part of their inaugural Studio Residency program. Another full-length play, House of the Deaf, was read as part of the Gift Theatre’s In The Works series in 2023. Rammel’s work, in both fiction and theatre, employs the tools of satire, comedy and the fantasical to explore what it costs people to live in dystopias, be they real or fake; the ones we’re born into or the ones we build for ourselves.  He resides in Chicago with his wife Ana, their two children, Winter & Oliver and their stupid dog.