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Rain Valdez (‘Razor Tongue’) on creating art with a community: ‘I firmly believe that you move mountains with the people you love’ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW]

“I started to feel angry at my own complacency… in letting micro aggressions and misogyny and discrimination happen to me,” notes Rain Valdez. She started to interrogate those feelings and turned them into the critically acclaimed web series “Razor Tongue.”

Transgender Actress Rain Valdez: How I Took Charge of My Career — and Landed an Emmy Nom

Unable to find roles for transgender women or Filipina Americans, the 'Razor Tongue' creator started a production company and wrote a series for her to star in — now she's one of just two trans performers with an Emmy nomination.

Rain Valdez's Hilarious New Series Reflects New Era for Trans Creators

With "Razor Tongue," the writer, actress, and producer joins a growing list of trans creators doing it all. -Jacob Tobia

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one of my favorite interviews about my short film Ryans by Diane Tourjee

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I gave up living stealth” and I’m never going back

I was afraid for the longest time. I never wanted to admit that I was a trans woman. I had my own internal transphobia. In fact, when I encounter new people and the subject of my trans identity comes up, usually the first question they ask is, "When did you know you were trans?"

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“It’s not a monolithic experience or a one way street,” declared Emmy-nominated actress, Rain Valdez, when I asked her what she thinks the biggest misconceptions are about transgender people.

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Rain Valdez joins Trace Lysette, Alexandra Billings and Alexandra Grey for the cover of Gay Times UK.

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Rain Valdez is an actress, writer, producer and out and proud Filipino Transgender woman most notably of the 2022 Glaad Listed script Re-Live, Ryans, Hexed and the series Razor Tongue. Rain’s unique writing and performance on Razor Tongue earned her a Primetime Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series”, and a ‘Special Recognition’ GLAAD Award. Her writing and performance in the romcom short film Ryans earned her a Best North American Short Film Award at OUTSouth Queer Film Festival and Hexed earned her 3 nominations for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Short at the Madrid International Film Festival. She is the Trailblazer Award recipient at the 2021 Outfest Legacy Awards.

Rain is also the founder of ActNOW, the first and only acting class in Los Angeles prioritizing a safe space for LGBTQIA actors and teaches beyond the binary. Rain got her start playing ‘Coco’ in season 2 of TV Land’s Lopez and doubling in Amazon's Transparent as Miss Van Nuys on screen and a producer behind the scenes. She recently starred in a Paul Feig directed, half-hour comedy pilot for Freeform TV, guest stars in Amazon’s Sneaky Pete and can also be seen in the CBS All Access new show Why Women Kill.

Her 7-part web series Razor Tongue, which she wrote and stars in, had its international premiere in Toronto at InsideOut Film Festival, its US premiere in San Francisco at Frameline Film Festival of June 2019, as well as, premiering in LA at the Outfest Film Festival. All 7 episodes of Razor Tongue are now available for streaming and can be found here: https://www.noweverartists.com/razortongue.

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