Episode 17: Joanna Pang Atkins

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Our series of interviews continues as we near the start of our
reviews of the first season of The Secrets of Isis.  Joining
us for this episode is actress, dancer, teacher Joanna Pang
Atkins who played Cindy Lee on the first season of the show.
 Joanna talks about her career leading up to her her on
the show, her memories of the episodes and her co-stars, and her
career following her departure.


 


Joanna Pang Atkins has a unique perspective gained from a
fascinating lifetime of experience. Since she was a young girl,
Joanna has traveled the world over, performing as an actress and
dancer on stage, television and film. As a natural progression,
she began producing and directing theater for teens and now
brings her experience into schools with multi-cultural dance
assemblies and residencies.


 


   From her starring role as a teenage idol on
CBS’ top-rated children's showThe Secrets of ISIS, which
recently came out on dvd, Joanna's TV appearances have varied as
widely as Saturday Night Live, numerous daytime soap
operas, The Lawrence Welk Show, and dozens of TV
commercials.


 


   Joanna's stage performances have taken her
throughout the country, touring in well-known musicals
including West Side Story, South Pacific, Music
Man, and The King and I, as well as close to home in the
world premiere production of Sayonara at the Paper Mill
Playhouse in New Jersey. Performing with an Asian touring dance
company carried her to the far reaches of Europe, South America,
Canada and the U.S.A.


 


   Her professional teaching background is in
dance, ranging from ballet to jazz to folk. She teaches all ages
from kindergarten through adult. Her special rapport with
children has her teaching them on TV and as far afield as
California studios, a school in Budapest, and right at home in
New Jersey. At many schools, Joanna’s multi-cultural dance
residencies have become an annual tradition. For over ten years,
she has also been a teaching artist for the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center (NJPAC).


 


   In addition to her own performing, Joanna has
traveled extensively with her husband, Dick Atkins, a producer
and writer of television and feature films, and their son Davy,
to movie locations from Los Angeles, Georgia and Vermont in the
U.S., to Africa, Budapest, Moscow and St. Petersburg.


 


   Joanna’s biography has been published
in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who of American
Women.


 


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