What is a Rammel?

Rammel Chan is a proud Asian American actor, writer and comedian.

His theatre credits include: Lucy & Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Cambodian Rock Band (Victory Gardens) King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre & Kirk Douglas Theatre) Vietgone, Tiger Style! (Writers Theater) Oblivion (Steppenwolf Theater Company) Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Next Act Theatre).

TV acting credits: The Red Line (CBS), Crisis, Chicago Justice (NBC) The Big Leap, APB (FOX) Patriot, Utopia and The Jamz (Amazon).

Film acting credits: End of the Tour directed by James Ponsoldt, Blackbox directed by Stephen Cone, Cold War directed by Stirling Mclaughlin and Wilder Konschak and I Used To Go Here directed by Kris Rey.

As a comedian he performed as an understudy/replacement in A Red Line Runs Through It on the Second City e.t.c. stage. He is an alumnus of Stir Friday Night and the sketch group Robot vs. Dinosaur. In 2015 he received the Bob Curry Fellowship from the Second City and NBC Universal and was featured at the Breakout Comedy Festival.

As a writer, Rammel is a 23/24 New Stages resident playwright at the Goodman Theatre, writing a musical with Matthew C. Yee. He is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship and his short fiction has appeared in Riksha Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Solstice Literary Magazine and The Tiger Moth Review. His short play Tomato Tattoo was read at the Goodman Theatre as part of the 2023 APIDA Arts Festival. House of the Deaf, a full length play about Francisco Goya and gun violence, was read as part of the Gift Theatre’s In The Works series. He is formerly a staff writer with Cards Against Humanity and currently writes for Jackbox Games. His original game concept “Hypnotorious” appears in the Jackbox Party Pack 10.