Nicole Asava (she/her/they/them, formerly Nicole Pasquale) is a queer LA/NYC based Thai-Chinese-American actor, comedian, director, and writer from Anchorage, Alaska and Brooklyn, New York. They did improvisation and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCBT) in New York and Second City in Chicago, and in 2016 was a NBC/UCBT Diversity Scholar finalist. She performed in many popular NYC comedy shows including Asian AF, the improvised This American Life, Jo Firestone's Live Dubbed Sitcoms, Kaleidoscope, Dr. Brothers, and Crisis On Ski Mountain.