Kaipo is the founder and owner of 15 Minutes of Frame and started shooting weddings in 2002.
He is also an actor and director who has performed at some of the best theaters in New York, including The Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, and New York Theatre Workshop where he is a Usual Suspect (their official company of artists). In 2004, he directed part of ABC Television’s Cultural Diversity Showcase.
In front of the lens, his film and television credits include Anesthesia, Fair Game, The Royal Tenenbaums, It Could Happen To You, All My Children, The Protector, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Can Openers, Rescue Me, The Mysteries of Laura and Cosby. He can currently be seen in a recurring role on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black playing prison medic, Igme Dimaguiba.
He also directed and edited the internet web series, HELP WANTED, in 2008 and he was nominated for best direction and editing for the films WHITE RABBIT and DEAD END, two shorts submitted to the Asian American Film Lab’s 72-Hour Shootout in 2009 and 2011.
Kaipo also teaches private classes in film acting technique and film production in Manhattan.
He was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, attended The British American Drama Academy and is a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts (BFA).
Kaipo and his wife, Hope, live in New York City with their son, Giovanni, and their one-eyed pug, Wink.
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