Biography

Seo-Ling Cheng and her siblings were born in New Jersey but did not choose American names (for each other) until she was four or five. At that point, she became Wendy. The pen name Sulyn Zan was created to reconcile her birth name and multicultural American life and aesthetic. Sulyn began carrying on obscure twitter conversations with entertainment industry folks in 2012 via emoji nicknames. A few years later, she morphed into Sue-Lynn Zan.

Prior to that, Sue-Lynn had worked on award-winning short films with classmates of a transnational aesthetic who happened to begin NYU Tisch's MFA program in 2002. In 2008-2009, her thesis film "Moon Lady" won two awards and was chosen to open for "Son of the Sunshine," listed first that year on Indiewire's "Features to Watch at Slamdance." Her 2012 short adaptation, "The Region of Unlikeness," was based on the New Yorker published short story by acclaimed author Rivka Galchen. Sue-Lynn interacted with the Colbert Report team online in 2012-2014, influencing the show's material on a daily basis and promoting environmentalism, women and minority rights while publicizing her creative work and that of her community. She spurred on the influential Rockettes episode via musical treatment "Stephen Colbert Saves the World," which she pitched in her blog shortly before the appearance of the popular viral video. Following the mysterious fact that the core concept of three of Sue-Lynn's student film ideas reemerged in hugely successful American media within half a year to two years of her creations, Sue-Lynn is working on two feature projects and is looking for the ideal collaborators.
- IMDb mini biography by: Wendy Cheng