Communities that lift me up
A home for individuals and organizations that promote forms of the spoken, written, and sung word as a tool for personal and communal transformation. Current Board Member and Membership Co-Chair.
Playful Substance's mission is to elevate and support community interaction through story. A welcoming and flexible development company that believes every artist deserves a space to work at a high level with joy and respect both for the work of the artist and the life an artist maintains outside of the theater. Writer, performer, and director.
Raised Pinay is a devised theatre piece where intergenerational Pinays (Filipinas/diasporic Filipinas) participate in an embodied storytelling process, resulting in a performance that interweaves their stories expressed through monologues, dialogues, poetry, visual art, songs, and movement. Raised Pinay: The 5th Generation focuses on motherhood - re-membering, exploring, and surfacing stories of the lived experiences and the legacies of mothering. Writer and Performer.
Still, Birth. is a play about pregnancy loss. A taboo subject for centuries, this play seeks to open the lines of communication between those who have been touched by pregnancy loss in any way. Not only a ceremonial play, but a powerful community of supportive artists. Documentarian/Photographer for multiple productions.