artist statement

I am a circus-informed and immigrant-influenced director, reveling in folktales, patterns, and embodied memory. For me, directing is community organizing: each piece I make is tactile and organic, duct-taped together through interdisciplinary investigation and emergent from the people in the room. I tell narratives that surprise, that find comfort in dimensionality. I write plays about pancakes and family dysfunction, paint life-loving snails which may-or-may not be squashed, and direct dramas with comedy improvisers.

I put collaborative storytelling at the center of my work and to bring shows outside of traditional venues, into places where my pieces can converse with geography and community. My schemes are two-fold: to create worlds for urgent, new work and to do it in spaces in which traditional leadership forms are dismantled through clown noses, Hall & Oates dance parties, and collective Wikipedia spirals.

inspirations

clowns (of all sorts), folk stories, craft, long walks ((in stretch pants with lavender coifs)), complicite, Lygia Pape, a very niche movement called impressionism, Emergent Strategy, sci-fi, a decades old Sherlock Holmes love

dream directing

New works (of all sorts); The Old Man and the Old Moon; Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; self-translated adaptation of The Cherry Orchard; installation art Hamlet (just give me 5 minutes, I’ll explain); anything circus related