Biography
Jeff Locker is an writer, actor, and host based in Los Angeles, best known for appearances on Marvel's Agent Carter, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and feature film Stasis. He is also an alum of the Black List's 2022 GLAAD List and winner of the 2022 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition with his pilot Spesh. Most recently, his short film The Forgotten Place won its 20th film festival award. Among his several award-winning plays, The Forgotten Place won the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2018 and Best Script and People's Choice Best Play at Short+Sweet Hollywood in 2019, Sweet, She won Best Production (ie, Best Play) at Short+Sweet Hollywood 2019, and Sweet, He won a Scenie for Best World Premiere Short Play in 2019. Most recently, Jeff hosted the STX Tencent 75th Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet Show, the Huade Awards, the red carpet of the Huading Awards (akin to the Chinese Golden Globes), Alibaba's Tianmao Discovery, Mandarin-language game show Who's Smart on ETTV America and backstage at So You Think You Can Dance for Hollywood Junket, and starred as Mandarin-speaking China consultant Peter Timms in David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at East West Players. A graduate of Yale University and East Asian Studies major with a focus in China studies (in particular, Chinese film), he was an actor and award-winning TV/radio personality in Taiwan and China for many years, well known for his portrayal of George W. Bush in Golden Bell-winning political satire show Mimics, Brindsley in Black Comedy (National Theatre Taiwan) and Paul in The Musical Story of Teresa Teng (Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall). Hosting duties included the Golden Horse Awards and Asia-Pacific Film Festival, The Golden Bell Awards, The US China Film Summit Gala, Entertainment X-press, South Park Whoa (Channel V), Fear Challenge (the Chinese Fear Factor) and Love Radio (East Radio Shanghai). Jeff was also a best-selling author of eight Mandarin books, lecturing throughout Chinese Asia. He is a proud graduate of The Second City and iO West. US credits also include YOMYOMF/NBC/Comcast Interpretations contest finalist Paper Children, Warner Bros. release Disaster L.A., Good Samaritan, self-penned shorts The Forgotten Place, Scars, To Be Saved, and A Good Man, and Second City Hollywood's America: Chin Up, Fly Down! and Dirty, Sexy, Funny. In early 2015, Jeff was thrilled to become the first foreigner to host CCTV's Avenue of the Stars Hollywood Lunar New Year Event. He also performs sketch and improv regularly, particularly musical improv.
