- Graduated from Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- Parents were immigrants from Canton Province, China.
- He wrote the plays "The Last Hand Laundry in Chinatown" and "The Last Emperor of Flushing".
- Parents owned a laundry on Union Street in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- Graduated from CUNY/Queens College.
- Youngest of five children.
- Holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, NYU-Tisch School of the Arts.
- Author of "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond" (2022).
- Graduated from PS 214 in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- Co-founded the punk band Howard Turk & The Grips (later just The Grips).
- Interviewed singer David Johansen for The Flushing Forum published by Flushing High School.
- Has three older brothers, Gene, Vic and Herman; plus an older sister Jane.
- Father King Wah Eng and mother Toy Lain Chin were an arranged marriage. Both were from a tiny village outside of Toisan, a port city on the Pearl River delta in the southern Chinese province of Canton, now known as Guangdong.
- Cannot speak Mandarin nor Cantonese. He can speak a little of the Toisan dialect.
- Parents owned the Foo J. Chin Chinese Hand Laundry in Flushing, Queens, New York. It was originally in Hoboken, New Jersey before moving to East 86th Street in Manhattan, New York before relocating to Flushing.
- While attending Queens College he interned with A&M Records' publicity department. This led to his first music industry paid position as a publicity assistant for Island Records.
- Was Asian CineVision's first full-time publicist.
- Graduated from Junior High School 185 in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- Playwright Tony Kushner handed him his diploma at his 1993 graduation ceremony where he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree.
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