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Class
Movement Meets Voice: Embodying Character
January 9, 5pm - 9pm at Joe Goode Annex, SF
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This workshop is designed for dancers and movers seeking to expand their vocal and acting skills, but is open to performers of all backgrounds. We’ll explore how to harness the body’s innate intelligence to enhance vocal expression, delving into the connection between movement and voice. Participants will learn techniques for developing dynamic characters by integrating physicality with vocal nuance, exploring how to bring text alive through embodied storytelling. Through interactive exercises and improvisation, you’ll gain tools for using movement as a foundation for voice work, unlocking new layers of emotional depth, presence, and power in performance.
On Demand
Video
Kurogo, the Silent One
Created for Shotgun Players' 3030 Vision Project
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I directed, edited, and acted in this piece inspired by an experience early in my theater career. In KUROGO, THE SILENT ONE, an Asian American performer reckons with invisibility, racism, complicity and how to heal.
Film
Girl in Golden Gate Park
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I co-star in this indie noir film. Evicted from her San Francisco apartment and stranded in her car near Golden Gate Park, a woman makes a secret plan to defend her right to stay in the city she loves. GIRL IN GOLDEN GATE PARK is a mystery about holding on to who we are.
Past Projects
Theater
Angels in America
Oakland Theater Project @ Marin Shakes
Part 1: Sep 27-Oct 26
Part 2: Oct 11-Oct 27
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I am beyond thrilled to be performing in this brilliant, epic play. I play Hannah Pitt, Ethel Rosenberg, and 6(!) other characters.
NOTE: Performances are in San Rafael!
Staged Reading
The Motion
April 15-16, 2024
Shotgun Players at Ashby Stage - 1901 Ashby Avenue in Berkeley
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I'm performing in this staged reading of a new play by brilliant local playwright Christopher Chen
Performance
My Home on the Moon
Jan 25-Feb 24, 2024
San Francisco Playhouse - 450 Post Street in San Francisco
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I play a maybe brilliant, maybe evil tech CEO and a handful of odd ensemble parts, from sexy chef to lion dancer in this delightful new play by Minna Lee.
Performance
We Build Houses Here
May 4-20, 2023
OASIS - 298 11th Street in San Francisco
I'm excited to be performing in this immersive show in an iconic drag nightclub. It's theater, dance, music, and drag all smashed together with a shipwrick and queer community.
Theater
The Headlands
Feb 9 - Mar 5, 2023
American Conservatory Theater
Making my ACT debut in Christopher Chen's brilliant San Francisco noir-inspired play was a dream.
Theater
Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812
Nov 2023 - Feb 2023
Shotgun Players at the Ashby Stage
It was an honor to choreograph and co-direct (with Patrick Dooley) the west coast premiere of Dave Malloy's epic musical
Theater
Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)
May 11-29, 2022 | Magic Theater, San Francisco
I play the Amy, a marine biologist and the 2nd of the 4 sisters, and also a cartoon sloth named Cesar in this delightful play by Sam Chanse.
FILM
Detour Dance / Up On High
may 21-22, 2022 at 1pm | Roxie Theater, San Francisco
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UP ON HIGH is a 9-part dance film that follows a gaggle of kings + queens as they soar into futurism, queer legacy, and embodied ancestry. I'm featured in one of the films along with a few Sisters or Perpetual Indulgence.
Reading
Tiger Beat
Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Friday, July 23, 5:30pm (on zoom)
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Tiger Beat follows the Girls Next Door, a pop girl group rising to fame in the early 2000’s. The group’s Asian American songwriter Tess finally gets a chance to sing lead, but the opportunity comes at what cost? I play Vivian, Tess' sister and the band's manager. I also play another character I can't reveal without a spoiler!
reading
The Truer Story of the Chan Family
Saturday, Dec 14 at 1pm
Chinese Historical Society, San Francisco
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A staged readon of a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family.
on stage
The Lady Matador's Hotel
October 12-November 17, 2019
Central Works at Berkeley City Club
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The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia follows the denizens of a luxurious hotel in the capital of an unnamed Central American country in the midst of political turmoil. There is the matadora in town for a bullfight. There is an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel. And there is a colonel who committed atrocities in the country’s long civil war. Each day, the pull of revenge and desire draws them closer and closer together. (I played Suki Palacios, the lady matador herself.)
Shotgun Players
KILL THE DEBBIE DOWNERS! KILL THEM! KILL THEM! KILL THEM OFF!
March 21–May 4, 2019
The Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA
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I played Masha in this music and movement-filled devised theatre piece inspired by Three Sisters and directed by Mark Jackson & Beth Wilmurt.
photo by Jamie Lyons
Erika Chong Shuch
TheaterTheater
December 16, 2018
I'm one of the artists involved in this wonderfully experimental project, which is the brainchild of our fearless leader, Erika Chong Shuch. This was an informal showing to wrap up our 3rd round of experimentation and workshopping.
PlayGround presents Season 25 (2018-19)
Monday Night PlayGround
December 17, 2018 at 8pm
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison Street, Berkeley
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This was my first time reading in PlayGround! (In "Baby, It's a Zombie Apocalypse Outside" by Elizabeth Flanagan.) Each month, PlayGround announces a topic to a pre-selected writers pool of Bay Area emerging professional playwrights, inviting submissions of original ten-page plays. The top short plays are selected and presented as staged readings before a live audience. December's topic was: HOLIDAY MIRACLE.