☆ HI ! ☆

i am a transnational Zurich- and Toronto-based canadian theatre artist of filipinx-german descent. as a storyteller, i seek to spark connection and conversation through shared live experiences. as a director, dramaturg, and creator, i hope to create art and spaces that bring and hold us together in all our multitudes.

my on-going artistic research engages with filipinx weaving traditions as a performance praxis for theatre creation. my motivation for this research is to form decolonial performance protocols for collaborative, socially conscious work that can apply to, or work against dominant colonial theatre traditions, including (white) nationalism, narrative, and naturalism.

my artistic practice blends movement, storytelling, and sound through a multi-diasporic perspective. my practice is rooted in ceremony and play, drawing on ancestral technologies and ritualised performances. i approach performance as a QUEERING site (to unsettle, make strange). this approach to (political, socially engaged) theatre-making is joyfully subversive — my work is deeply rooted in social justice, gesturing towards decolonial futures, and queer joy.

hosting is a big part of my practice: i host a monthly mahjong club in my living room, and a pop-up political play-reading potluck through my new project @theatrepotluck. for a few years I also hosted Reading the 49, a monthly play-reading series hosted by fu-GEN that promoted under-produced and un-produced plays by women of colour.

i’ve developed and performed premieres of new works with companies across turtle island including vAct, Theatre SKAM, Cahoots Theatre, Carlos Bulosan Theatre, and fu-GEN, and am the dramaturg for a number of works in development by IBPOC, queer, immigrant + newcomer, women, genderqueer and trans artists. i’ve led creation and residency programs including the 2022/2023 resident dramaturge for Puente Theatre and the interim program director for Nightwood Theatre’s 2023/2024 Write from the Hip.

i completed a BFA specializing in performance from the University of Victoria. I’ve trained with Peter Balkwill and Shannan Calcutt at the Banff Puppet Intensive, Eric Rose at Ghost River Theatre, David Anderson at Clay and Paper Theatre, and with Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater Touring Company. i’ve mentored under Marjorie Chan as dramaturgy intern at Cahoots Theatre and Nina Lee Aquino as a Factory Theatre Foreman in 2018/2019. i mentor, teach, facilitate, and work in educational settings often, and am constantly learning.

some works i’ve created include co-creating and directing Shadow Girls with Claren Grosz, a queer love story scored entirely with overhead projector art, presented at the Rhubarb Festival in 2017 with a full-length production at the Gladstone Hotel in 2018 with Pencil Kit Productions and Blank Canvas. during the pandemic i created a digital community arts project inviting people to connect over stories and destinations by going for a bike ride called Make me an Alleycat with wheels from Claren Grosz. select performance credits include: The Cherry Orchard (Modern Times); Lieutenant Nun (Theatre SKAM, SNAFU, Puente Theatre), FEARLESS (fu-GEN).

i am the recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Prize, a national award celebrating promising canadian directors recognized by their communities for their practice, leadership and dedication to their craft. i am currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Theatre with a Minor in Curatorial Practice at Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland.

outside of the theatre, i am called to water, vast horizons, eating chips, changing hairstyles and looking up plants on my identifier app.

if you like lists, check out my online CV here ⋆˚꩜｡