Keisuke Hoashi is an American stage, film and television actor, playwright, screenwriter and film producer of Japanese descent.
Background
Hoashi attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, including three summers (1982–85) at the New York State Music Camp, before attending the Crane School of Music. He retired from music at 20, and became an alumnus of Troy, New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, receiving his M.A. in 1993 in technical communication with a graphics certificate. He then moved to Los Angeles and became the NCR Corporation's first multimedia designer. He left NCR in 1998 to become a full-time actor. In 2005 he returned to Oneonta, New York as musical theatre instructor for the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival.
Theater
In 1993, he was cast as a bumbling Japanese businessman in a college production of Anything Goes. In 1998, Hoashi starred in the lead role of Onizuka in Onizuka, Kona's Son, an unsuccessful musical play about U.S. astronauts. In 2000, Hoashi created the world's first martial arts musical comedy play, "Memoirs of a Ninja", for which he won five Maddy Awards, five Garland Award nominations, and was honored as being among "The Best of Theatre 2000" by NiteLife After Dark magazine. He earned another Maddy Award for his portrayal of "Sakini" in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" for FireRose Productions.
Television and film
Hoashi's television appearances include Glee, Mad Men, iCarly: iGo to Japan, The King of Queens, Bob's Burgers and Hawthorne. He played a Japanese reporter in the film The Princess Diaries 2. In 2006 he wrote, produced, and starred in the television movie Cooking Kids.
Music camp
In 2006, he co-founded the New York Summer Music Festival music camp in Oneonta, New York, and is current director of communications and media, head of the camp's writing & acting program, and resident actor. His narration was featured at the 2010 New York Summer Music Festival's "The Lady Is a Song" concert, starring Ann Hampton Callaway.
Television
Frank Leaves for the Orient (1 episode, 1999) as Zen-O-Phonics Man
The Amanda Show (1 episode, 2000) as Sailer
Strong Medicine (1 episode, 2001) as Hematologist
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1 episode, 2001) as Delivery Man
The Man Show (1 episode, 2001) as Crack Spackle Man
The District (1 episode, 2002) as Dr. Becktel
America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1 episode, 2002) as Boyfriend
The Bernie Mac Show (1 episode, 2003) as Soccer Dad
Coupling (1 episode) as Sushi Chef
Yes, Dear (1 episode, 2003) as Bob
Dr. Vegas (1 episode, 2004) as Patron
Boston Legal (1 episode, 2005) as Police Technician
The King of Queens (1 episode, 2005) as Phil Matsumoto
How I Met Your Mother (1 episode, 2005) as Doctor
Jake in Progress (1 episode, 2006) as Doctor
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (1 episode, 2006) as Singing Pizza Waiter
Cooking Kids (2006) as Chef
Drake & Josh (1 episode, 2006) as Hospital Administrator
Them (2007) as Detective
The Singles Table (1 episode, 2007) as ER Doctor
Las Vegas (1 episode, 2007) as Alan Marshall
The Wedding Bells (1 episode, 2007) as Studio Technician
Viva Laughlin (1 episode, 2007) as Felix Wang
Notes from the Underbelly (1 episode, 2007) as Home Sushi Chef
iCarly: iGo to Japan (2008) as Security Chief
Rita Rocks (1 episode, 2008) as Court Baliff
Castle (1 episode, 2009) as Mr. Lee
Hawthorne (2 episodes, 2009) as Dr. Mazaki
Entourage (1 episode, 2009) as Club Official
Better Off Ted (1 episode, 2009) as Scientist
Monk (1 episode, 2009) as First Cop
Heroes (2 episodes, 2010) as Japanese Cop
Parenthood (1 episode, 2010) as Arnold Lee
Glee (1 episode, 2010) as Peter 'Chainsaw' Gow
The Young and the Restless (1 episode, 2010) as Mr. Yunioshi
Mad Men (1 episode, 2010) as Hachi Saito
Bob's Burgers (4 episodes, 2015 - 2021) as Shinji Kojima and Mr. Kim
Film
Love, Ltd. (2000) as Mr. Lee
Zombie Rights! (2003) as Dr. Zombie
The Matrices (2003) as The Director
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) as Japanese Reporter
Dating Games People Play (2005) as Japanese man
Grasshopper (2006) as Bartender
Target Audience 9.1 (2007) as Dr. K
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) as Dai Loung
Half-Life (2008) as Field Reporter
Eggbaby (2009) as Mr. Chin
Love & Distrust (2010) as Bartender
Adultolescence (2010) as Tim Chen
Godzilla Minus One (2023) as Additional voices (English dub)
Bullet Train Explosion (2025) as Shinnosuke Yoshimura (English dub)
Video games
Ghost of Tsushima (2020) as Ippei the Monk
Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) as Angel/various
Recognition
Of Hoashi's performance in Anything Goes, the Daily Gazette claimed he was miscast, writing "Even when apparently seasick or drunk, Hoashi came across as intelligent and competent, not a befuddled, confused non-English-speaking Asian."
Of his original play, "Memoirs of a Ninja", NiteLite After Dark praised the production, writing "Hoashi's quirky lyrics and twirled-about concepts are a clever mix of fun, frolic and belly laughs with political, social, moral, ethical, and cynical commentary that hilariously sideswipe political correctness, stereotypes, traditional thinking, racism, sexism, ageism and every other 'ism' in between."
Keisuke Hoashi at TV Guide
Keisuke Hoashi at Queens Daily Eagle