Meet Di Quon Wilms

Di Quon’s 20 year career as a professional actor started with her big screen debut as "Lily Kim," hotel seamstress in Maid In Manhattan starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Wayne Wang. That was followed by over a dozen television credits (many of them recurring characters), over fifty national commercials, several independent films and a lead role in the feature film hit Grown Ups starring Adam Sandler.

As a producer, Di has worked on HBO music specials, theater productions, PSAs and charity galas. Di was the creator and star of the PBS televised pilot My Life… Disoriented which was the first Asian American dramedy to air on television. As a voice artist Di has been in Oscar nomination animated films, featured in television series, multi-seasonal podcasts including Hero Hotel, and the just released Gotham Knights video game. She directed Loose Knit by Theresa Rebeck at the Michael Woolson Theatre in Los Angeles, and last year Di made her Film Directorial debut with Agu, an award winning short film that premiered at the Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.

Di was a writing assistant for feature films and her co-written screenplay Xie-Xie was a finalist in the Boston International Film Festival Script to Screen. Her non-fiction writing can be seen in magazines and newspapers. Di has sat on numerous panels and been a guest artist at Universities, Private Schools and Lincoln Center to name a few. Her most recent project Classics Undone is a collaborative feature film project at UGA that she both co-wrote and is co-executive producer of. It is currently in the final stages of post-production.

Di holds an M.F.A. in Performance, a B.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications and had studied acting techniques from Method to Improv, traditional theatre to modern film and everything in-between. When not at PACE teaching on-camera and producing PACE films, Di is with her ten year-old-daughter making art.