Age: 32
female
Michele Selene Ang is a Chinese-Indonesian-American actor and filmmaker. She was born in Surabaya, Indonesia and immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, eventually becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is most known for starring as Courtney Crimsen in the 2017 Netflix series "13 Reasons Why." Michele was raised in Fairfield, California and attended the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts for Theater. She is also a 2012 National YoungArts Program Silver Award winner in Theater and a 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Michele graduated from Fordham University with a BA in Theatre Performance and an array of student productions under her belt. Since then, she has performed on stage in full productions at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, East West Players, and Yale Rep. Her indie film debut; "How I Learned to Fly," received a theatrical run by Film Movement and is now available to watch on Apple TV. As a filmmaker, she has worked on several short films through her production banner; February Face Productions, and is developing more narrative shorts as well as her feature directorial debut.
Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda”—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.
