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Hi! I'm a freelance director, dramaturg, and educator currently based in California (previously New York). I make work, mostly new, about the things we don't know how to talk about. My favourite work is ambitious, dramaturgically rigorous, and expands the courts of public opinion and public memory. I'm drawn to playfulness, contradiction, and complexity; pieces often live at the intersections of intellect and stupidity + spectacle and grunge. Projects generally fall into 1 of the 3 below categories: - spectacular, socio-political pageants (cc: A Hundred Circling Camps + UNIBEAUTY & Her Wicked Daughters + It's True, It's True, It's True) - fluid dreamscapes that collapse time and space, often through original composition and movement (cc: Kairos + TEA + The Chinese Lady) - playful, hypertheatrical dramadies that incorporate multiple languages and are made for and with specific communities (cc: Kim's Convenience + Hometown Boy + The World is Not Silent) Affiliations and accolades include: resident director at HERO Theatre; member of the The National Director's Fellowship 2019 cohort (the O'Neill/NNPN/the Kennedy Center/SDC); and a 2023 finalist for New York Stage and Film's Pfaelzer Award. My work has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the UC Critical Refugees Studies Collective + Ovation Recommended (Los Angeles), Suzi Recommended (Atlanta), and awarded Annual Best of Cincinnati. SDC. |
Fun facts: studied in Taiwan, traveled with a Communist street theatre troupe in India, trained in Thai massage in a hippie commune, fruit fanatic
Adjacent facts: mentored Core Company students through the Orchard Project, co-led directing workshops at the Kennedy Center, holds a PhD from UC Santa Barbara with foci in neoliberalism, Asian diasporas, and feminist Marxist theories of labor, currently an Assistant Professor of Directing at UC Santa Cruz |
