Paul Wong
@paulwongactor.bsky.social
Former full time physician/part time actor, now full time actor/retired physician! @atbtalent https://linktr.ee/Pauljwong
A glimpse of THE HOLIDAYS ON STAGE & SCREEN last night, our latest concert fundraiser to support our Youth Educational Outreach programs! And a wonderful kick start to our holiday season!
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A glimpse of THE HOLIDAYS ON STAGE & SCREEN last night, our latest concert fundraiser to support our Youth Educational Outreach programs! And a wonderful kick start to our holiday season!
MEET THE CAST! It's the day of the show, Y'all!
Tonight our Musical Theatre Guild family sings holiday songs from musical theatre in this fundraising concert to support our Youth Educational Outreach programs to nurture tomorrow's musical theatre artists and audiences! Among the 20+ songs will…
Tonight our Musical Theatre Guild family sings holiday songs from musical theatre in this fundraising concert to support our Youth Educational Outreach programs to nurture tomorrow's musical theatre artists and audiences! Among the 20+ songs will…
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
MEET THE CAST! It's the day of the show, Y'all!
Tonight our Musical Theatre Guild family sings holiday songs from musical theatre in this fundraising concert to support our Youth Educational Outreach programs to nurture tomorrow's musical theatre artists and audiences! Among the 20+ songs will…
Tonight our Musical Theatre Guild family sings holiday songs from musical theatre in this fundraising concert to support our Youth Educational Outreach programs to nurture tomorrow's musical theatre artists and audiences! Among the 20+ songs will…
A baby possum scavenging the leftovers from the bird feeder!
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A baby possum scavenging the leftovers from the bird feeder!
LA tennis star sighting! Leyla Fernandez and Sam Querrey practicing on the court behind us!
September 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
LA tennis star sighting! Leyla Fernandez and Sam Querrey practicing on the court behind us!
Remembering and missing Mom on what would’ve been her 93rd birthday today…❤️
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Remembering and missing Mom on what would’ve been her 93rd birthday today…❤️
Looking forward to singing in this concert one week from today with 30+ singer friends from my Musical Theatre Guild family.
www.musicaltheatreguild.com/show/mtg-sin...
www.musicaltheatreguild.com/show/mtg-sin...
September 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Looking forward to singing in this concert one week from today with 30+ singer friends from my Musical Theatre Guild family.
www.musicaltheatreguild.com/show/mtg-sin...
www.musicaltheatreguild.com/show/mtg-sin...
...only job almost 30 years before retiring. Also, I would be back on stage, a resumption of a creative journey that continues to this day. And just a few years after that, I would meet Tomm, now my husband of almost 36 years. Life is a strange but wonderful journey! #worldtravel #worldtraveler
September 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
...only job almost 30 years before retiring. Also, I would be back on stage, a resumption of a creative journey that continues to this day. And just a few years after that, I would meet Tomm, now my husband of almost 36 years. Life is a strange but wonderful journey! #worldtravel #worldtraveler
... that couldn’t last forever, and maybe the decision to take the trip at all was a subconscious realization that I needed to get away from my previous life to make sense of my future life. Within a few months I would take a position on staff at a local medical center, not knowing it would be my...
September 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
... that couldn’t last forever, and maybe the decision to take the trip at all was a subconscious realization that I needed to get away from my previous life to make sense of my future life. Within a few months I would take a position on staff at a local medical center, not knowing it would be my...
...retrospect, I think I used academic success to combat feelings of inadequacy growing up as an ethnic minority in a predominantly Caucasian society as well as gay in a fiercely homophobic society. And with the added shadow of AIDS, I think it was easier to put all my energy into my studies. But...
September 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
...retrospect, I think I used academic success to combat feelings of inadequacy growing up as an ethnic minority in a predominantly Caucasian society as well as gay in a fiercely homophobic society. And with the added shadow of AIDS, I think it was easier to put all my energy into my studies. But...
...telling me “Your big conflict in life will be a plethora of fortunate choices.” And I had largely put my personal life on hold for 10 years. On one hand, I had been busy pursuing my undergraduate degree, medical school degree and internship/residency programs over the previous decade. But in ...
September 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
...telling me “Your big conflict in life will be a plethora of fortunate choices.” And I had largely put my personal life on hold for 10 years. On one hand, I had been busy pursuing my undergraduate degree, medical school degree and internship/residency programs over the previous decade. But in ...
...decade of academic studies leading to my medical degree, I had discovered a renewed urge to explore the creative world of musical theatre, especially after binging on theatre the previous 2 weeks in London and New York. But loving the medicine too, I more fully understood Yip Harburg once ...
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
...decade of academic studies leading to my medical degree, I had discovered a renewed urge to explore the creative world of musical theatre, especially after binging on theatre the previous 2 weeks in London and New York. But loving the medicine too, I more fully understood Yip Harburg once ...
...of the world outside of the United States. But I had also learned a lot about myself, arriving home as a much more calm and confident young man than the one that had departed LAX 228 days prior with a better understanding of the maxim “it’s the journey, not the destination”. After more than a...
September 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
...of the world outside of the United States. But I had also learned a lot about myself, arriving home as a much more calm and confident young man than the one that had departed LAX 228 days prior with a better understanding of the maxim “it’s the journey, not the destination”. After more than a...
...had changed me in ways that I wouldn’t realize until years later, maybe even until now. Physically, I had started and ended in the same place geographically. But in a way, I had traveled around the world to search for and to find… me. Of course, I had seen, experienced and learned about much...
September 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
...had changed me in ways that I wouldn’t realize until years later, maybe even until now. Physically, I had started and ended in the same place geographically. But in a way, I had traveled around the world to search for and to find… me. Of course, I had seen, experienced and learned about much...
...strange to pay for the flight on the plane itself. Also surprisingly, the plane was half empty which made it even more comfortable. Arriving at LAX, my mother walked right past me in baggage claim without recognizing me at first. Maybe it was the dark tan, but I also think the long journey ...
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
...strange to pay for the flight on the plane itself. Also surprisingly, the plane was half empty which made it even more comfortable. Arriving at LAX, my mother walked right past me in baggage claim without recognizing me at first. Maybe it was the dark tan, but I also think the long journey ...
guide was an amusingly entertaining wisecracker as the iconic sites of New York like the Statue of Liberty and the UN building floated by. After a T-bone steak lunch, the trip to Newark Airport was uneventful for my flight on People’s Express, where check-in was also easy, although it was a bit...
September 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
guide was an amusingly entertaining wisecracker as the iconic sites of New York like the Statue of Liberty and the UN building floated by. After a T-bone steak lunch, the trip to Newark Airport was uneventful for my flight on People’s Express, where check-in was also easy, although it was a bit...
The last day... 40 years ago today, with most of the day to kill before my late afternoon flight, I took the Circle Line Cruise around Manhattan. The clouds were breaking up as we departed and while it was brisk and cool initially, the sun finally came out later and it became quite pleasant. The...
September 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The last day... 40 years ago today, with most of the day to kill before my late afternoon flight, I took the Circle Line Cruise around Manhattan. The clouds were breaking up as we departed and while it was brisk and cool initially, the sun finally came out later and it became quite pleasant. The...
40 years ago today, the last full day of my around the world journey, was mostly a quiet day, getting my luggage organized for the last of the 40+ plane flights I had taken since January. I did attend a performance of Neil Simon’s other play on Broadway, BILOXI BLUES, which was as well done ...
September 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
40 years ago today, the last full day of my around the world journey, was mostly a quiet day, getting my luggage organized for the last of the 40+ plane flights I had taken since January. I did attend a performance of Neil Simon’s other play on Broadway, BILOXI BLUES, which was as well done ...
40 years ago today, in the mood for something different, I visited the Museum of Natural History, which was much larger and more extensive than I had remembered from visits I had made as a child and even as recently as 4 years previously with my friend Judy. I particularly saw the exhibits of ...
September 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
40 years ago today, in the mood for something different, I visited the Museum of Natural History, which was much larger and more extensive than I had remembered from visits I had made as a child and even as recently as 4 years previously with my friend Judy. I particularly saw the exhibits of ...
These "before" pictures popped up in my reminder feed from exactly 5 years ago today as we were about to break ground on the pool and landscaping project. You can see the red paint lines on the dirt laying out the margins for digging. What a difference in 5 years!
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
These "before" pictures popped up in my reminder feed from exactly 5 years ago today as we were about to break ground on the pool and landscaping project. You can see the red paint lines on the dirt laying out the margins for digging. What a difference in 5 years!
40 years ago today, I slept in until 10 am, partly from the antihistamine I took for my hay fever allergies, something I hadn’t experienced anywhere in the previous 7 months, but which was hitting me hard in NYC. The weather was changeable and threatening and I barely got to the Orpheum theatre ...
September 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
40 years ago today, I slept in until 10 am, partly from the antihistamine I took for my hay fever allergies, something I hadn’t experienced anywhere in the previous 7 months, but which was hitting me hard in NYC. The weather was changeable and threatening and I barely got to the Orpheum theatre ...
40 years ago today, it was cloudy and a bit cooler. I attended the funny and very well-done matinee performance of BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS starring Nicholas Stouse (son of famed composer Charles Strouse) as Eugene. That evening, I visited another Musical Theatre Workshop classmate, Nancy Burke ...
September 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
40 years ago today, it was cloudy and a bit cooler. I attended the funny and very well-done matinee performance of BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS starring Nicholas Stouse (son of famed composer Charles Strouse) as Eugene. That evening, I visited another Musical Theatre Workshop classmate, Nancy Burke ...
for a good Japanese meal of tempura, BBQ pork, sushi, soup and pickles. SONG AND DANCE, starring Bernadette Peters, was in previews and was an enjoyable evening at the theatre. As a bonus, I ran into my old UCLA Musical Theatre Workshop classmate Steve Fickinger at intermission, who was attending..
September 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
for a good Japanese meal of tempura, BBQ pork, sushi, soup and pickles. SONG AND DANCE, starring Bernadette Peters, was in previews and was an enjoyable evening at the theatre. As a bonus, I ran into my old UCLA Musical Theatre Workshop classmate Steve Fickinger at intermission, who was attending..
40 years ago today, it was hot and humid (94F). I took the subway to the TKTS booth at the World Trade Center, where I heard tickets were sometimes more available than the better-known branch in Times Square. I was interested in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, but nothing was available. I was excited and ...
September 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
40 years ago today, it was hot and humid (94F). I took the subway to the TKTS booth at the World Trade Center, where I heard tickets were sometimes more available than the better-known branch in Times Square. I was interested in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, but nothing was available. I was excited and ...
40 years ago today, I finally returned to the US, after over 7 months away. The first time I heard American English overhead announcements at JFK, it was actually a little startling. The subway ride into midtown Manhattan at rush hour was as crowded as one would expect, especially lugging a large...
September 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
40 years ago today, I finally returned to the US, after over 7 months away. The first time I heard American English overhead announcements at JFK, it was actually a little startling. The subway ride into midtown Manhattan at rush hour was as crowded as one would expect, especially lugging a large...
...in Los Angeles in 1979. I knew CRADLE well, having played Dr. Specialist (witty casting by John Hall, lol) in a production at UCLA just 4 years prior. I even was able to squeeze in a 10 pm performance of a Kander and Ebb tribute revue, HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET at the Donmar, with lively upbeat ...
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
...in Los Angeles in 1979. I knew CRADLE well, having played Dr. Specialist (witty casting by John Hall, lol) in a production at UCLA just 4 years prior. I even was able to squeeze in a 10 pm performance of a Kander and Ebb tribute revue, HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET at the Donmar, with lively upbeat ...