My work explores crisis and catastrophe, wrestles with intersections of race, gender, and science & technology, and centers characters occupying some kind of marginal space. This centering has always been my natural impulse, part of my own perspective moving through the world, but I also hope to tell stories that broaden and deepen our sense of what it is to be human, and human in this particular, totally insane, totally appalling, and jawdroppingly beautiful, world. I’m also curious about our evolving humanity – how who we are on a contemporary today level intersects with who we are on a primal level, and who we are becoming.

As a multiracial and Asian American woman who regularly stumbled on checkboxes growing up (and as an adult, ongoing), I’ve also always been preoccupied with themes of belonging, identity, and authenticity – searching for belonging, yearning to define and articulate a sense of identity, regularly suspicious of any claims on authenticity (including and especially my own). My work is inherently political (which I believe is true of all work, whether acknowledged or not). I try to write the kind of theater I love and desperately need – theater that rouses and deepens our compassion, makes us laugh, connects us to one another – theater that wakes us up.