Lisa Chu

All around experienced 2nd AD with call sheets, production reports, scheduling, to BG setting/ check in & out/ recycling in order to optimize background count, to Second unit/ drones/ rehearsals/ stunts/ inserts, to Basecamp and working with multiple types of personalities. Knowledgeable and experienced in features, TV (multi & single camera), Commercials, Web series, Live entertainment (Stage Manager & Every Coordinator). I work at all levels of 2nd AD category and 1st in low-budget. Essentially whatever you need, I strive to have you covered & supported. I love to work, am resourceful, have a good attitude, aim to communicate and use teamwork to assist the project in being efficient, successful, and a good work environment.

Second AD Credits:  Film - A Teacher's Obsession (1st AD), I SEE (1st AD); Who's Driving Doug; Cooties; Street Honor (aka El Tio Sam); Slice; Politics of Love (aka Love, Barack); My Fare Lady; Short

TV - Westworld (sn 2); Nylon; Mentalist (pilot staff, 1-7 day); East Los High 2; Petals on the Wind; Extant; Young & the Restless; Major Crimes; Soul Man; BETAS; Wendell & Vinnie; Jessie; Switched at Birth; Lab Rats (pilot); Exes (series & aka Untitled Mark Reisman Pilot); Smothered (pilot); Roar of the Crowd (pilot); Untitled Peter Knight Pilot; Soda Jerks; Retired at 35; Eastwick; Middleman; Mentalist; Company Man; Side Order of Life; Sarah Silverman Program; Heartland; Threshold; House; Play Nice; Big Bang Theory (pilot); 12 Miles of Bad Road. Day player: So Random; Happily Divorced; Switched at Birth; Exes, Rules of Engagement; Melissa & Joey; Two and a Half Men; Lie to Me; Rita Rocks; Ghost Whisperer; Mentalist (pilot); Private Practice; Numb3rs; 100 Questions; Castle; Dirty Sexy Money; Stargate: Atlantis; ER; Unit; OC; Standoff; Daybreak; Cold Case; Deadwood; New Adventures of Old Christine; Grey's Anatomy; CSI: Miami/NY; House; American Dreams; Without a Trace; Criminal Minds. Webseries: Private; Heroes: Destiny Commercial: Hyundai: Seal the Deal; UCLA; Target (live stream web marathon); Truth (cancer parade) Industrial: Pendura Life Visions Graduate DGA Training Program [credits available upon request] 

AD/UPM Western Council member 2008-present, Asian American Committee Co-Chair

BFA Theater Stage Management degree

Previous career experience includes Entertainment Coordinator with Universal Studios Orlando, Theatrical Stage Manager