I write from an island.
Not as metaphor — literally. Kauaʻi, the Garden Isle, has been my home for fifteen years, and Hawaiʻi has shaped everything about how I see the world and why I write. The natural beauty, the aloha of the people, the deep relationship between community and ʻāina — these are not background for my work. They are the work.
I believe theatre is one of the last places where a community can sit together in the dark and ask the hardest questions out loud. My plays live in that space — where the personal and the planetary collide, where family secrets surface on the eve of catastrophe, where the wisdom of an island community becomes humanity's last, best hope.
Apocalypse and Aloha was born during the Covid pandemic, on this island, when the world went quiet and the questions got louder. It is the play I had to write.
I founded Aloha Common Theatre because I believe Hawaiʻi deserves a stage — not as backdrop, not as paradise postcard, but as a living, breathing protagonist in the American theatrical conversation.