Founder and first president of the Workshop, Stephen Bai is a graduate of NYU’s School of Film and Television. He spent his time after graduation learning the mother tongue in Seoul, hiking amidst the grizzlies in Alaska, and experiencing the full production gamut ranging from p.a. to producer and director on a number of feature films, documentaries, corporate and music videos for companies such as Film News Now, Third World Newsreel, the Asian American Theater Company, the Brooklyn Motion Picture Company, and Zero Sum Productions. He recently formed his own production company, 12 Pictures, and is currently working on a screenplay entitled “Grace,” organizing a Korean American film festival for the fall, and writing, producing and directing his first feature film—a philosophically ruminated, Asian American “anti-romantic comedy” set in New York, entitled “Twelve.”