Esther Chen is a stand-up comedian, actor and host from Taiwan. In addition to being seen on HBO, Hulu, Amazon, FX, Buzzfeed, HBO Max and MTV, she was nominated for the best-supporting actress at Planet Connections Festivities. She is also the dialect coach for Mr. Robot Seasons 2&3 and contributed to the translations on the show. Most recently, Esther was cast in the ABC Diversity Showcase, recurred in And Just Like That, and shot a promo for Jerry Seinfeld’s newest Netflix special “23 Hours to Kill.” She co-produced “Asians Strike Back: a Coronavirus Comedy + Science Show,” which got featured on New York Times, CBS and TimeOut. She is the creator of Weekly Takeout: an Asian American late night show on IG, the award-winning pilot Wide Open and Chinese podcast 好戲開場. She appears regularly at comedy clubs in NY and all over Taiwan.

At the age of 4, she made her debut stage performance as Narrator 1 in a reading of The Night Before Christmas at her English language learning cram school. She was the best Narrator 1 there has ever been in the history of that local kindergarten. After that Christmas show, she moved on to play a vegetable seller in a Thai floating market, and a Japanese kimono girl with no lines on stage. That year, she learnt that there are no small parts, only small actors.

She then became an acting student at NYU Tisch and went on to performing full time on stage in New York City. She just shot an episode of Succession, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Hunters and Y, based on the comic series "Y: The Last Man." She is currently writing a comedy pilot. Click on her IG stories to see her in person in New York, Taipei, and all across the US.