Keisuke Hoashi
Keisuke Hoashi is an American stage, film and television actor, playwright, screenwriter and film producer of Japanese descent.
Background
Hoashi attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, including three summers at the New York State Music Camp, before attending the Crane School of Music. He retired from music at 20, and became an alumnus of Troy, New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, receiving his M.A. in 1993 in technical communication with a graphics certificate. He then moved to Los Angeles and became the NCR Corporation's first multimedia designer. He left NCR in 1998 to become a full-time actor. In 2005 he returned to Oneonta, New York as musical theatre instructor for the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival.Career
Theater
In 1993, he was cast as a bumbling Japanese businessman in a college production of Anything Goes. In 1998, Hoashi starred in the lead role of Onizuka in Onizuka, Kona's Son, an unsuccessful musical play about U.S. astronauts. In 2000, Hoashi created the world's first martial arts musical comedy play, "Memoirs of a Ninja", for which he won five Maddy Awards, five Garland Award nominations, and was honored as being among "The Best of Theatre 2000" by NiteLife After Dark magazine. He earned another Maddy Award for his portrayal of "Sakini" in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" for FireRose Productions.Television and film
Hoashi's television appearances include Glee, Mad Men, iCarly: iGo to Japan, The King of Queens, Bob's Burgers and Hawthorne. He played a Japanese reporter in the film The Princess Diaries 2. In 2006 he wrote, produced, and starred in the television movie Cooking Kids.Music camp
In 2006, he co-founded the New York Summer Music Festival music camp in Oneonta, New York, and is current director of communications and media, head of the camp's writing & acting program, and resident actor. His narration was featured at the 2010 New York Summer Music Festival's "The Lady Is a Song" concert, starring Ann Hampton Callaway.Filmography
Television
Frank Leaves for the Orient as Zen-O-Phonics ManThe Amanda Show as SailerStrong Medicine as HematologistSabrina, the Teenage Witch as Delivery ManThe Man Show as Crack Spackle ManThe District as Dr. BecktelAmerica's Most Wanted: America Fights Back as BoyfriendThe Bernie Mac Show as Soccer DadCoupling as Sushi ChefYes, Dear as BobDr. Vegas as PatronBoston Legal as Police TechnicianThe King of Queens as Phil MatsumotoHow I Met Your Mother as DoctorJake in Progress as DoctorThe Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Singing Pizza WaiterCooking Kids as ChefDrake & Josh as Hospital AdministratorThem as DetectiveThe Singles Table as ER DoctorLas Vegas as Alan MarshallThe Wedding Bells as Studio TechnicianViva Laughlin as Felix WangNotes from the Underbelly as Home Sushi ChefiCarly: iGo to Japan as Security ChiefRita Rocks as Court BaliffCastle as Mr. LeeHawthorne as Dr. MazakiEntourage as Club OfficialBetter Off Ted as ScientistMonk as First CopHeroes as Japanese CopParenthood as Arnold LeeGlee as Peter 'Chainsaw' GowThe Young and the Restless as Mr. YunioshiMad Men as Hachi SaitoBob's Burgers as Shinji Kojima and Mr. KimFilm
Love, Ltd. as Mr. LeeZombie Rights! as Dr. ZombieThe Matrices as The DirectorThe Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement as Japanese ReporterDating Games People Play as Japanese manGrasshopper as BartenderTarget Audience 9.1 as Dr. KThe Poughkeepsie Tapes as Dai LoungHalf-Life as Field ReporterEggbaby as Mr. ChinLove & Distrust as BartenderAdultolescence as Tim ChenGodzilla Minus One as Additional voices Bullet Train Explosion as Shinnosuke YoshimuraVideo games
Ghost of Tsushima as Ippei the MonkCyberpunk 2077 as Angel/variousRecognition
Of Hoashi's performance in Anything Goes, the Daily Gazette claimed he was miscast, writing "Even when apparently seasick or drunk, Hoashi came across as intelligent and competent, not a befuddled, confused non-English-speaking Asian."Of his original play, "Memoirs of a Ninja", NiteLite After Dark praised the production, writing "Hoashi's quirky lyrics and twirled-about concepts are a clever mix of fun, frolic and belly laughs with political, social, moral, ethical, and cynical commentary that hilariously sideswipe political correctness, stereotypes, traditional thinking, racism, sexism, ageism and every other 'ism' in between."