05 Jin Maley: acting, tarot reading, writing, communicating

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Jin Maley (they/them) is a classically trained actor who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2012.

Jin portrays the Communications Officer Ensign Kova Rin Esmar in Star Trek: Picard. Their other television credits include Silicon Valley, Shameless, As We See It, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Criminal Minds, and Bones. Their film credits include Bodied produced by Eminem and the viral music video for the song Happy by Mitski.

Their theater credits include the roles of Ratcliffe and Rivers in a reading series of Richard III with Al Pacino, and the role of Ariel in The Tempest at Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. As a member of the New York-based physical theater company Sinking Ship Productions, Jin co-created and starred in Cassandra, An Agony, an original piece commissioned by the Getty Villa.

Jin trained in acting at Oberlin College, the American Repertory Theater, and the Moscow Art Theater School.

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Kathie's note: I met Jin on (in?) Caveday, a pretty fabulous online coworking space. Jin is one of the facilitators, aka Cave Guide, whose energy and presence I just loved from the beginning. Also, I had a really fun tarot reading with them. Again with the presence, and being fully engaged.

Writers Rotation intro/outro recorded at Dynamix Productions in Lexington, Kentucky.

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