slipper house
A community showcase by azn creatives in Austin, in collaboration with Gia Đình Goods. We featured artists exploring the theme of living room.As the lead event manager, I led a team in curating artwork, artist relations, coordinating event logistics, marketing, and volunteer management.

Một Câu Một Nửa
a promqueen project that brought together Vietnamese Americans and/or mixed Vietnamese Americans around the same dinner table to have thoughtful conversations around identity, culture, and representation. The dinner was a home cooked Vietnamese style dinner prepared by a Vietnamese American chef.The dinner was filmed and released as a short documentary. I was a facilitator for the dinner and helped to coordinate the screening following after.

Dinosaur on the Moon is a devised theatrical experiment that asks: what would our elders say to us if they were with here us today?As a part of the WTFringe Lab cohort, my team and I collectively devised, wrote, directed, produced, and performed together to create Dinosaur on the Moon. (As in, all five of us did all five of those things! - breaking the traditional single director/playwright model often seen in theatre.)I was also our show's graphic designer and created our program art and playbill.Dinosaur on the Moon won Fringiest Production (Jury) and Best of Overall Production (Jury) at the National Women's Theatre Festival.

The AAPI Storytelling Summit was a community event I coordinated in collaboration with the Austin Asian American Film Festival.With a team of three Program Coordinators, we curated a series of sessions to equip the Asian American community with tools to tell their own stories.In addition to developing our programming, I moderated a panel titled "How do we tell AAPI stories?" which invited three local AAPI leaders (Vy Ngo, Minh Vu, and Erica Deiparine-Sugars) to speak on their experiences in art and advocacy.Photo by Kelly Zhu.

bloom (in development)bloom is a new piece I am working on following the Tsang Family: three women, three survivors, bound in a cycle of love and hurt. A story about intergenerational trauma and healing told through movement, music, and devising.bloom will be making its stage debut for Frontera Fest - in which three short scenes from the full play will be presented.

Twitter FeedI wrote Twitter Feed in response to the increase of Anti-Asian violence during COVID-19. In it, an Asian American woman ruminates on the violence she's seen in her community and in her own life.Twitter Feed has been produced digitally by Theatre 3 (dir. Regina King) and hybrid live/digitally by New Manifest Theatre (dir. Simone Alexander.)Actress Mia King featured in photo.

So Lucky was a play exploring intergenerational trauma, mental health, and cultural belonging within the Asian American community. I served a producer, playwright, and performer for the show.So Lucky was the first time I've ever been in a production that was made up of a majority APIDA and/or LGBTQIA+ cast and crew, and it was so meaningful to me to share creation space with people who shared my identities.Before each show, we featured a performance from a local APIDA artist. At the end of each show, we held a talk back facilitated by a APIDA community leader.Photo by Steve Rogers Photography.

Summoner in Dinosaur on the Moon
Devised and directed by Jurassaic Satelite
Photo by @pen_yah

Pen in So Lucky
Written by Sandy Lam
Directed by Thanh Bui
Photo by Steve Rogers photography

Love in Everybody
Written by Branden Jacob Jenkins
Directed by Yesenia Garcia-Herrington

Gandalf in Young Adult
Written by Jordan Tucker
Directed by Roxanna Taylor

Isobel in Primary Colors
Written by Nina Ki
Directed by Simone Tetrault

J in Alone Together
Written and directed by Zoe Chen

Vagabond
a story about diaspora going home

STITCH: Your AAPI Story
a collection of stories, explorations, and wonderings from the participants of the STITCH workshop series, edited and curated by Sandy Lam and Casie Luong.Read STITCH here.

Depression Diaries
stories from a prolonged depressive period - on writing about the parts of yourself that feel too ugly to say outloud

Mew
mini zine on love and cats

couch
mini zine on redefining loneliness

Thoughts in Vancouver
scribbles from my chaotic trip to Vancouver

Embrace Chaos: Playfulness For Your Creative PracticeAn improv and devising workshop, co-created and led by Norman Tran for participants of slipper assembly's slipper summit - a storytelling conference for Asian Creatives on solidarity and resistance.

STITCH: Our AAPI Story
Co-led with Casie Luong, a three part art workshop that led participants in activities exploring identity, community, and self.The workshops culminated in a public showcase in which they were able to share the pieces they created to the wider community.

blooming: future visioning as resistance
Presented at AFSSA's PARTners in Progress prevention summit, co-created with Casie Luong. Participants were invited to imagine a better world for themselves and their communities through curated activities.

APIDA Community Circle
Created in response to the Atlanta Spa shootings with Casie Luong. Our intention was to create a space where participants could process their experiences as Asian American folks through writing and discussion. We specifically sought out female-identifying and non-binary writers to be involved.After three workshops, that Casie and I developed and facilitated on our own, we compiled participant work into a digital zine.

Honoring Ourselves in Our Self Advocacy
for the the AALEAD Conference
at Texas A&MIn this workshop, I wanted to acknowledge that self advocacy for Asian Americans doesn't have to look one specific way and encouraged participants to use their voice in the way that was most authentic to themselves.This was an interactive session that was mostly led by participant-based discussions and reflections.