Ai is a Japanese-born playwright, illustrator and multidisciplinary theater-maker who is a winner of the Austin International Poetry Festival, the Leonard Isaacson Award Browning Monologue Contest and the Pick of the Vine Short Play Competition; a finalist of the Eugene O'Neil National Playwright Conference, B3 Theater Festival of Shorts and B-Street Theater’s New Comedy Play Festival; a semifinalist of the Austin Film Festival, the 44th/45th/46th Bay Area Playwrights Festivals and the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild's Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition; and a quarter-finalist of the ScreenCraft Short Film Competition. Ai’s plays have been produced or staged-read at the Aurora Theater, Brava Theater, Shelton Theater, Exit Theater, San Francisco Olympians Festivals, Z-Space, Potrero...
Ai is a Japanese-born playwright, illustrator and multidisciplinary theater-maker who is a winner of the Austin International Poetry Festival, the Leonard Isaacson Award Browning Monologue Contest and the Pick of the Vine Short Play Competition; a finalist of the Eugene O'Neil National Playwright Conference, B3 Theater Festival of Shorts and B-Street Theater’s New Comedy Play Festival; a semifinalist of the Austin Film Festival, the 44th/45th/46th Bay Area Playwrights Festivals and the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild's Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition; and a quarter-finalist of the ScreenCraft Short Film Competition. Ai’s plays have been produced or staged-read at the Aurora Theater, Brava Theater, Shelton Theater, Exit Theater, San Francisco Olympians Festivals, Z-Space, Potrero Stage, PianoFight, Theatre of Yugen, Breach Once More 9x9 Festival, GreenHouse Festival, Little Fish Theater, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center and Mile High Theater. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from San Francisco State University where she taught Creative Writing.