I wrestle with the concept of "kind rage." It is a practice, tendency, and sentiment that recontextualizes inherited and embodied pain into taking care, allowing time, and creating braver and safer spaces that my dear friend and brilliant dramaturg, Andrew Agress named.

Within such communal, imaginative, and rebellious work, I seek to share stories that fall through boundaries, and hope to find joy and empowerment through togethering – utilizing somatic, dramatic and interdisciplinary practices. I work with stories, objects, bodies, voices and rituals. My work often lands within and between the boundaries of theater, dance, performance art, new media and installation. Sometimes the underlying curiosities of each project invent new forms. I am especially passionate about subjects of immigration, diaspora, alienation, solidarity, nation/state identities, transgenerational gift and trauma.

I create in the hope that audiences will find themselves in my work, and that experiencing it frees their kind rage out of them. I hold the most joy in these moments of genuine connection. A space where we hear and see each other.

Currently, I am excited about directing Welcome to my room by Yeena Sung which will be at Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, and devising the eleventh iteration of an intermedia project in incessant development since 2017, She Walks the Air, with the support of LMCC Creative Engagement Grant.

As a scholar, writer, and educator, I have written for The Korean Theatre Review, spoken for The Korea Theatre Association’s seminar, was a part of Ping Chong and Company’s core writing team devising the Hidden Voices: Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders in the United States for NYC DOE, and taught 13 residencies of Secret Histories Arts-in Education program, including for New Jersey Performing Arts Center and International School Theatre Association.

MFA: Columbia University
Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group — Cohort 6
SDC Associate Member