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2022

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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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.

This show brought me so much joy! Getting to play music we wrote together in a beautiful theatre, under the kick-ass lighting in haze, in front of the most receptive audiences, with the best bandmates/collaborators/friends. Truly a dream came true. Crossed that off the bucket list.

For my birthday this year, I asked my high school choir director @kellyproznick whether she would direct my friends with singing some songs I loved from highschool. Much love to everyone for making my wish come true!! Accompanied by @_sapphire_haze

if you knew me from high school, you knew that while I've always wanted to study theatre, I spent the majority of my time in high school in the band/choir room. I loved starting every morning five days a week for four years with either choir or jazz band rehearsals, and I was so glad to have found a home, and met influential teachers/mentors (@kellyproznick @biddleyding @bangladeuce ).... And while music has taken a back seat since then, I'm excited to be back playing in a band formation again in Passenger Seat (see what I did there) thanks to the vision of @artichokez

Finally got to walk across the stage 3 years after my final university class! I met some of my closest friends and collaborators from my time at SFU - feeling so very thankful.

Spent the last week fully immersed in the city's vibrant arts scene with all the incredible live performances and industry conversations, and hanging out with @izrabes and @downtonbaddii! Much gratitude to @pushfestival and @royalcourttheatre for bringing them over to Vancouver. How I've missed live theatre ❤

I haven't quite been able to find a word that can capture what this last week has felt like for me. The closest word I can find so far is "magical". Because it felt surreal. That the characters and stories that had lived in my head for the last eight months were now breathing in front of me. Words I've written were being spoken on stage with the Taiwanese Mandarin dialect that I have yet to hear on any Vancouver stages so far. Snippets of my childhood. Stories I hadn't told anyone yet. Feelings I'm still grappling with. A version of myself. A version of other people in my life I knew.

So nervous and excited to share this - I've been writing a play! With the generous support of rice & beans theatre (@riceandbeanstheatre ) and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (@pushfestival ), there'll be a public presentation of our design explorations (in-person & virtual options available) and a moderated discussion about the process! Free to attend. Can't wait to share this with you all! Link in bio.