Jon M. Chu is an American director born in Palo Alto, California, celebrated for vibrant, culturally specific spectacle spanning dance films, musicals, and franchise filmmaking. Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up 3D established his early command of kinetic dance choreography and youth-oriented genre filmmaking. Crazy Rich Asians, following a Chinese American woman's introduction to her boyfriend's extraordinarily wealthy Singaporean family, became a landmark commercial and cultural success as the first major studio film with an all-Asian cast in twenty-five years. Wicked, adapting the beloved Broadway musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz, further demonstrated his command of elaborate large-scale musical spectacle. Chu's consistent command of vibrant, meticulously choreographed spectacle and his landmark role in Asian American representation have made him one of the more culturally significant contemporary studio directors. Read more