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NATICK, MA — SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 — Boston-based actor Albert M. Chan was honored as a 2005-2006 Best Actor in a Play nominee at the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters’ (EMACT) 20th Annual Gala and Awards Presentation held this evening at the Crowne Plaza Boston/Natick Hotel. Chan was nominated for his role as Adam in Paul Rudnick’s gay-themed play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, which ran earlier this year at the Boston Center for the Arts.

“It’s fantastic that an Asian actor playing a gay character can be nominated for a Best Actor award,” Chan said. “The producers of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told were gutsy to put on a show like this.”

Produced by Encore Theater Company, the controversial The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told won the top award of 2005-2006 Best Play at the gala.

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told begins with the premise that in the beginning God created Adam and Steve, and it follows out the ramifications of a gay foundational myth through the centuries. When they are kicked out of Eden, Adam and Steve bump into Jane and Mabel who accompany them through the flood, imprisonment in Egypt, and life in contemporary New York City.

“Albert Chan’s Adam was a delight from the first moment to the last,” lauded Jennifer Howard of EMACT. “Sweet, thoughtful and eager, he was an appealing ambassador to this version of the beginning of the world. Chan made a strong, believable connection with Steve as a lover and with Mabel and Jane as friends. We were emotionally engaged with him at all times.”

Chan has had diverse roles in both film and theater, not limiting himself to roles stereotypically played by Asians.

In film, he was recently cast in Walt Disney Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment’s live-action version of the classic cartoon Underdog, due in theaters August 2007. Among other projects, Chan has portrayed an Internal Affairs Lieutenant in the crime drama Interrogation (executive produced by Jeff Most of The Crow), a punk musician and love interest of the title character in Ana's Time, a vengeful casino assistant in the award-winning S. Katz, V.P., an awkward teenager in the supernatural drama #2 Pencil, and a foul-mouthed Chinese national in the award-winning feature Overserved.

In theater, Chan has performed in The Theater Offensive's musical workshop Surviving the Nian as Vincent, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Carmen as El Remendado, and MIT’s Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Utopia, Limited as Mr. Blushington.

Chan will be appearing on stage next in Thomas DeFrantz’s Queer Theory! A Musical Travesty as Michel, a character based on French philosopher Michel Foucault; the show will premiere at the Boston Center for the Arts in October 2006 and subsequently tour to the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, VT and MIT in Cambridge, MA.

Founded in 1985, EMACT’s mission is to encourage and promote community theater in Eastern Massachusetts through educational programming, supportive services, and the recognition of excellence.

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