I consider my plays to be deep dives into unfigureoutables, landing in unresolved, ambiguous places. My work explores intersections and collisions of race, gender, science & technology, and centers characters occupying some kind of marginal space – this has always been my natural impulse, part of my own perspective moving through the world, but in doing so I hope to contribute to efforts to illuminate and elevate marginalized voices – to tell stories that broaden and deepen our sense of what it is to be human, and human in this particular world. My work is inherently political (which is true of all work; still, sometimes needs to be said).

As a multiracial and Asian American woman who has regularly stumbled on checkboxes, I’ve always been preoccupied with authenticity – constantly hungering for it, and constantly suspicious of any claim on it. So my work also seeks to explore and complicate notions of Asian Americanness, hybridness, and Americanness. 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 with who we are becoming.

I try to write the kind of theater I love and desperately need – theater that challenges and transforms our perspective, that rouses and deepens our compassion, that connects us to one another, that wakes us up.