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GRACE ROWE, the writer, producer, editor, and lead actress of "I Am That Girl" was born in Flushing, New York and raised in Orange County, California. She knew she wanted to act since the age of seven, and attended Orange County High School of the Performing Arts and UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Tired of the limited amount of strong parts for Asian American actresses, she decided to write a one woman show, "The Grid Life", about seven different Asian American women struggling with identity issues. The Grid Life premiered at The Complex Theater in Hollywood which led to other performances at The HBO Workspace, The Women In Theater “Celebrate Women 2000 Festival”, and at the Davidson/Valentini Theater in the Ed Gould Plaza in association with The Edge of the World Theater Festival.

Hoping to reach a wider audience, Grace adapted the play into a feature-length screenplay, entitled "American Seoul." In addition to being one of the screenplays chosen for the 2002 IFP/West Screenwriter’s and Producer’s Lab, American Seoul won the Best Screenplay Award for the 2002 Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) in New York, where a staged reading of the script was performed. American Seoul was also one of four finalists in the CAPE (Coalition of Asian-Pacifics in Entertainment) 2001 and 2002 Screenplay Contest hosted by FOX Entertainment, and was first runner-up for the 2002 Cynosure Screenplay Contest.

In 2003, Grace produced and acted in the short film version of American Seoul. Although it was created primarily to show potential investors what the feature film would look like, the short film was invited to over two dozen film festivals worldwide. It was also recently chosen to screen at MTV’s TRL Studios Filmmakers’ Reception for the Asian American Film Festival in NYC. The short film is currently on tour with AAIFF and continues to screen at film festivals around the world. After being given the opportunity to pitch to producer Janet Yang, (The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flint), Janet signed on to act as executive producer of American Seoul. As time passed and financing for the film had yet to be found, Grace decided to take her career in her own hands once again and wrote "I Am That Girl", a feature-length script that she knew she could act in and produce herself. After the help of friends and family's generous donations,"I Am That Girl" began production in the fall of 2006.

Currently on festival circuit, Grace is traveling with "I Am That Girl" with the hope that audiences from around the world will get the chance to see her first feature film that she wrote, produced, edited, and starred in. She is currently working on a new feature screenplay she plans to direct and also star in and is getting back into working as an actor on other projects after being on a hiatus in order to finish her film.

Grace is a lifetime member of the prestigious Actors Studio. Some recent television credits include According to Jim, Frasier, and Jake in Progress. She is also the owner of Idylwild Pictures. Please visit their website to see upcoming projects and available scripts.

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