Born in Ottawa, Tyler Ham Pong first appeared onstage as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the National Arts Centre in Canada. He would later move to New York City to further his acting career where he wrote and starred in Moony Mercury at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and the Manhattan Repertory Theatre. He has won Best Actor awards at the Asian American Film Lab’s 72 Hour Shootout for his films Sawaru and The Real McCoy. The latter also winning overall Grand Prize in 2019.

Tyler relocated Los Angeles to pursue various film and television roles while continuing to write screenplays. He won numerous accolades for his screenplays, Dreamer In Exile, and Breakup Brody, winning a writing Award of Excellence at the Canada International Film Festival in 2011 for the latter and a Best Screenwriter Award in 2014 for Case File 69. One of his most recent films Leap screened at numerous festivals, including the FirstGlance Film Festival and Chelsea Film Festival. It was also selected for Amazon Prime Video’s first ever online film festival, All Voices Film Festival.

Aside from acting and filmmaking, Tyler is currently a travel host for Visit the USA, and has been an Associate Producer on several reality TV shows. He is based in Los Angeles and is the proud owner/operator of Kill the Pig Productions.