Current Projects
I’m performing in a staged reading of The Motion, a new play by Chris Chen. April 15-16 at Shotgun Players. Get tickets
I’m in post-production on Truer History of the Chan Family, a film I directed, choreographed, and acted in. Look for it in Fall 2024.
About Me
I’m a multidisciplinary performing artist. Acting is my main focus, on stage and on screen. I also dance, sing (a bit), and play the violin and guitar. Behind the scenes, I do some choreographing and directing. Whatever my role, I love the collaborative nature of performance making. Devised and interdisciplinary work is particularly dear to my heart.
Background
In another life I was a classical musician. I played violin and viola. I attended San Francisco Conservatory of Music for viola for a year before being sidelined by a pinched nerve.
In another life I was a modern dancer. I danced with a bunch of Bay Area dance companies, and I founded my own company, EmSpace Dance in 2000. Over the company’s 18 year life, I created over 30 live performance works, from pure movement, to site specific, to hybrid dance/theater, plus a couple of short dance films.
And now…
I’m a hyphenated performing artist. Actor-director-choreographer-dancer-musician. Mostly I’m an actor or a performer-collaborator developing material in a devising process. In 2018, I directed Brian Thorstenson's Wakefield (produced by 6 New Plays). I’m looking foward to co-directing Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 in Shotgun Players’ 30th Anniversary Season
Honors
Nomination Isadora Duncan Award in the revival category for “Monkey Gone to Heaven (Redux) (2018)
Della Davidson Prize (for innovative dance theater artists) (2016)
Resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (2007 and 2011)
SF Bay Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Award (2008)