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2023

Jan 27 – 28:
Co-creator / Performer, Passenger Seat @ OUTstages Festival (Victoria, BC)
Metro Studio Theatre at Intrepid Theatre
Tickets here

2023:
Co-creator / Performer, A Year of Blessings Audio Play Series
Episode 1: 繽紛新年 Bun Fun New Year available January 21

January – April:
Assistant Director, Forgiveness (World Premiere)
Jan 12 – Feb 12, Arts Club Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
Mar 7 – Apr 1, Theatre Calgary (Calgary, AB)

2022

Listen To:
FCAT After School Podcast by
SFU’s Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
Season 2 Episode 2
Interviewed by Zoë Braithwaite
Listen here

November:
Consultant, New Societies Online, National Performing Arts Centre (Taiwan)
2022秋天藝術節：溯流劇團《理想之城》(國家兩廳院).

Sept 24 – Oct 1:
Performer, The Five Vengeances, Affair of Honor, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Summer:
Collaborator/Web Programmer, shelter, fu-GEN theatre. (Online)

July – August:
Co-creator / Performer, New Societies on tour!
July 28 – 30 // In the Soil Festival // St. Catherines, ON
August 3 – 7 // Kick & Push Festival // Kingston, ON
August 11 – 14 // SummerWorks Festival // Toronto, ON

June 1 – 5:
Co-creator / Performer, New Societies @ rEvolver Festival.

May 25 – 28:
Co-creator / Performer,
Passenger Seat
@ rEvolver Festival

(Photo by Chelsey Stuyt)

April 22:
Panelist, Opera Speaks: Creative Adaptation, Vancouver Opera.

January 29:
Lead Artist,
DBLSPK 菠蘿麵包 Pineapple Bun
(rice & beans theatre /
PuSh Festival)
More into & Tickets.

(Image designed by Derek Chan)

January 22 – 24:
Host, CAPITALISM WORKS FOR ME! TRUE/FALSE, PuSh Festival.

January – February:
Speaker, “Multilingual Creation; Its Dramaturgy and Implications“, PuSh Festival Industry Series.

January:
Digital Artist in Residence, (PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Royal Court Theatre)

January 7 – 8:
Performer, New Societies Online (Rumble Theatre)

2022:
Associate Artist with rice & beans theatre.

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I had the pleasure of spending the last six weeks with the stellar team of Forgiveness, which opened at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage this week. It has been an incredible journey shadowing Stafford Arima at the helm, who led the team with so much generosity, grace, and space for creativity and collaboration. I'm incredibly proud of the work everyone has put into this show. Mark Sakamoto (and adapted by Hiro Kanagawa) has written an important piece of history that deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. The show is running until Feb 12 in Vancouver before moving to Calgary! Thought mom was joking when she said 25 is the age the human body has peaked and would start doing things for no reasons, but I really learned that this year. Gonna lead by example by sleeping before midnight this new year's eve. Here's to hoping I stop feeling dizzy in 2023. End of week 1 rehearsals as an assistant director for @theartsclub and @theatrecalgary 's co-production of Forgiveness! World premiere of this spectacular script by @hirokanagawatv, adapted from @sakamotomark 's best-selling book. Have learned so much sitting alongside @staffordarima about process and directing. Opens in mid January at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Baltimore -> Philadelphia -> Jersey/New York locks of brooklyn bridge - a series. Came back from a three week tour this summer and jumped straight into seven weeks of full time spent with the ensemble of The Five Vengeances. I've been training wushu for this show since February this year, and many in the cast have been training for much longer. I've never sweated this much before, and I'm amazed every day by how hard everyone on this show works onstage and off. Thank you @affairofhonor for making us look amazing. I'm gonna miss this group of fighters ❤️🤺 Just returned from a 3-week tour with New Societies. What a gift when work didnt feel like work but like a big long vacation. So incredible to have been part of a show and ensemble over a three year (!!!) journey. Infinite endless love to every single one of these people. I would jump in front of a GO train for any of them. Walt Whitman once said "the art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." and "I hear America singing" or something like that I don't actually know I'm not American I just found that on brainyquote.com and I don't read. I was about to leave the house in March 2020 to see @mydadwrotea live before the government enforced the lockdown hours before show. Finally got to see them after 2 years later! Their laughter got me through the pandemic. @uncleegor and @coopdloop are so sweet in person and @artichokez and @bellahalladay ran into @thisisalicelevine on commerical drive and talked for 20 mins today so I would have to live vicariously through them instead.