Maybe because I grew up reading (too much) magical fiction, I’m prone to interplay fantasy and reality… I believe fantasy is a powerful tool, because otherworldly symbols are rich metaphors for our reality.
Mystery unveils complex truth.
PRODUCTIONS
Highlighter Girl
15 minutes
2F
Emily and Anna work on a school assignment to create a superhero. But as they explore their possibilities, they feel trapped by their paradoxical experience—if they stand out so much, why do they also feel invisible? An empowering play about Asian American identity.
2022 NuWorks with Pan Asian Rep; Production at Theatre Row
2020 The National Women’s Theatre Festival; Production
Winner of Best Acting2018 New Works Now at the University of Kentucky; Production
2017 10-Minute Play Festival at the University of Kentucky; Reading
Motherland
(co-written with Danielle Cummings)
90 minutes
4F/1M
A Chinese American family video-chats across literal and metaphorical distances. Iris' plans to study abroad in China stir up cultural clashes between her assimilated mother and her grandmother. Meanwhile, her father's secret struggles threaten if she will be able to go at all.
A story of multicultural communication glitches
2022 Astoria Film Festival
Winner of Best Direction2022 Houston AAPI Film Festival
2021 The National Women’s Theatre Festival
Winner of Best Production
Winner of Best Acting
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
Perpetual Felicity
(co-written with Danielle Cummings)
70 Minutes
2F/1M
Based on a true story and first-hand accounts of 2nd century martyrs. Two black women, nursing new mother Lady Vibia Perpetua and pregnant slave woman Felicity, bond in their final days in prison. A series of dreams and visions, recorded by Perpetua in her final days, intercut with scenes of the women in prison, build up to the women’s deaths and triumphs.
Not Nineveh
110 minutes
1F/3M
Two strangers meet and embark on a cross-country road-trip together in order to escape their personal tragedies. The daughter of a Korean megachurch pastor and a middle-aged white gay man strike an unlikely friendship, where they find both solace and challenge in each other. As their secret wounds start to unravel, they begin to demand of each other questions of free-will and fate.
2022 Reading (Full-Length)
2017 University of Kentucky Studio Season; Production (One-Act)
Storybooklandia
90 minutes
5F/3M
Three years ago, 25 year old Charlie lost her best friend, Sophie, to a car accident. This was the demise of their codependent friend group, and now without hope, goals, or friends, Charlie returns to Sophie's favorite place on earth -- Storyboooklandia. This Midwestern amateur theme park seems to be the solution to all her grief. But all her attempts at memorializing the past and impressing high schoolers are met with embarrassing rejection. In the end, Charlie must face the painful second death of letting go.
SHORT FILM
Dance, Body
20 minutes
5F
Allegra, a young Chinese American ballerina, fights against her growing body. But with her mother in the hospital, her aunt Zoe must step in and face her own feelings of inadequacy. A film that celebrates the AAPI girls taking up space.
