Kaipo Schwab

In 2004 he was selected to direct part of ABC Television's Cultural Diversity Showcase.

Founded The Imua! Theatre Company (in NYC) with Hope Innelli in 1996.

Kaipo Schwab was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, the 2nd of 5 children to a Hawaiian/Chinese mother and German/Irish father. His introduction to acting began at the age of 4 appearing in commercials for his Dad's furniture company and then moving on to being featured in numerous local television shows and winning state and National awards in Shakespeare recitation and Speech and Debate with the National Forensics League. He continued to learn his craft at Boston University School for the Arts where he earned his BFA in Acting in 1993 and attended The British American Drama Academy, where he studied acting from Yale Drama School's master teacher Earle Gister and actress Diana Quick. After graduation, Kaipo moved to New York to pursue his acting career, and during the next two decades, he would work as an actor and director with major theaters including The Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Hartford Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Geva Theater and The New York Theatre Workshop, where he is a Usual Suspect (their official company of artists).

National Forensic League - Humorous Interpretation (Hawaii State Champion 1989)

First television appearance was in 1980 singing with Jim Nabors (aka Gomer Pyle) for a TV special in Hawaii.

First commercial he ever appeared in was for his Dad's furniture company in 1975.