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Kyle Casey Chu

She // Her // Hers

Writer and Filmmaker

San Francisco, CA

Kyle, an Asian person in a ruffley red and gold dress and white Victorian wig, stands outside at sunset. She holds her hands gracefully around her face and looks down through her mask-like face makeup towards the camera.

Photo by Vince Flores.

Kyle Casey Chu (aka Panda Dulce) is a San Franciscan author, filmmaker, and one of the founding queens of Drag Story Hour. In 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Story Hour to silence her, making viral headlines. She is now leveraging her global platform to tell even bolder queer stories.

Chu's writing has received awards and recognition from Sundance, SFFILM, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the California Arts Council, Lambda Literary, NewFest, and more. She is the co-writer and lead actor of the narrative short After What Happened at the Library. In 2023, she served alongside Drag Story Hour as Grand Marshall of San Francisco’s Pride festivities. Her debut two-novel middle grade series, The Queen Bees of Tybee County (HarperCollins 2025), was just optioned by Lambur Productions into a UK episodic.

Chu is currently an SFFILM FilmHouse resident and is in script development for her debut surrealist narrative feature After What Happened at the Library.

Donor -The Rainin Arts Fellowship is supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 04.23.2025

Film
A group of five people stand around a merch table of cassettes and shirts in a room with walls covered in colorfully painted pieces of wood.

Film still of Chosen Fam pilot by Kyle Casey Chu, 2020. Short-form episodic, 10 minutes.

Photo by Silvia Turchin.

A cropped closeup of a drag performer with dark lipstick and long nails, holding her hands up towards her face. In the background, a bright light shines in the dark.

Film still of After What Happened at the Library by Kyle Casey Chu, 2025. Narrative short film, 15 minutes 9 seconds.

Photo by Sarah Simka Jaffe.

A drag queen sits behind a counter in a dimly lit kitchen, lost in troubled thought. She wears a mahogany dress and her long auburn hair falls in waves across her shoulders.

Hero image of After What Happened at the Library by Kyle Casey Chu, 2025. Narrative short film, 15 minutes 9 seconds.

Photo by Sarah Simka Jaffe.