I'm not an actor of any kind, but I will be making my theatrical debut of sorts on April 21 at the Queens Theatre in the Park. I can tell you what "Undesirable Elements" isn't, but it's hard to describe exactly what it is. "UE" isn't a play and it's not fully staged, so don't come expecting "The Importance of Being Earnest," "A Raisin in the Sun," or "La Cage aux Folles." I could tell you that six Asian/Pacific Americans sit on stage, reading from scripts set on music stands and tell the stories of their lives, which would make it sound rather static. It's actually much livelier than that description would suggest.

There's Joseph O. Legaspi, a Filipino American poet who talks about his childhood growing up in the Philippines and in Los Angeles. There's Moana Niumeitolu, a Tongan American who was raised Mormon in Utah. There's me (Pauline Park), the only Korean adoptee in the cast and the only openly transgendered person. There's Zohra Saed, an Afghan American scholar who speaks lyrically of her memories of Afghanistan. There's Raj Thakkar, an Indian American whose life has been greatly influenced by his childhood as the son of a Gujarati shopkeeper in Queens. And there's Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, a young Chinese American poet and spoken word artist who lives in Brooklyn but who still has many family members back in Taiwan.

You just have to come and see it for yourself. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to meet the entire cast. And if you can't make it to QTIP on April 21, there will be performances in the Bronx and Manhattan on June 14 and 15.