Maurissa Tancharoen

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon born November 28 1975 in Los Angeles California is an American actress singer dancer television producerwriter and lyricist Career She cowrote Dr Horribles SingAlong Blog and appeared onscreen as Groupie 1 as well as on the DVD audio track Commentary The Musical in which she sings about the scarcity of nonstereotyped roles in television and film for actors of Asian originShe was a staff writer and story editor for the program Dollhouse and the shortlived sitcom Oliver Beene Tancharoen also played a brief acting role in Dollhouse as the active Kilo like the other Los Angeles actives named from the NATO phonetic alphabet and cowrote and performed lyrics for Remains with Jed Whedon for the Dollhouse episode Epitaph OneShe provided Zeldas singing voice in the season 2 episode The Musical of The Legend of Neil a spoof based on the video game The Legend of Zelda and performed backing vocals and danced in the video for the The Guild parody song Do You Wanna Date My Avatar released August 17 2009She was a writer and producer on the Starz series Spartacus Gods of the Arena and is credited as cowriter of the first two episodes together with Jed Whedon She also worked on Spartacus Vengeance Tancharoen was also a writer and story editor for Drop Dead Diva Tancharoens first paid script came in 2001 when she sold Revolution Studios an untitled pitch in which two Asian American FBI agents investigate a gang in South Central Los Angeles by working undercover as Korean grocery store clerks Her production credits include working as assistant to producer Mark Tinker on NYPD Blue and to William M Finkelstein on Brooklyn South as well as being coexecutive producer of the series DanceLife Tancharoen worked with Jed Whedon and Joss Whedon on The Avengers and cowrote the Marvel TV Pilot for ABC titled Agents of SHIELD with Jed Whedon and Joss Whedon and continues to work as an executive producer and showrunner Personal life Tancharoen is AsianAmerican and has said that her surname is of Thai origin She attended Occidental College where she wrote two plays that won the Argonaut Moore literary award Her father Tommy Tancharoen is a transportation coordinator for Hollywood movies Her brother Kevin Tancharoen is a director whose feature film debut is 2009s Fame On April 19 2009 she married fellow writer Jed Whedon brother of Joss WhedonIn her younger years Tancharoen was a member of the girl band Pretty in Pink Before making it big the band broke up and shortly after Tancharoen was diagnosed with lupus that required chemotherapy