playwriting + experience creation

Two generations of Filipina women navigate colonialism and capitalism in a high-stakes, satirical reality tv game show with all the odds stacked against them. The Amazing Chase Canada uses the structure and format of binge-worthy reality tv game shows to expose fabricated realities, the insidious rewriting of Canada’s history, and hidden truths we keep from our families and ourselves. The play asks brown, immigrant women: What does it take to win?

The Amazing Chase Canada was first developed in the Cahoots Theatre 20/21 Hot House Unit. Further development made possible by Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators Program supported by Outside the March and Tarragon Theatre.

life, so far is an interdisciplinary, multi-sensory interactive performance that invites audiences to slow down and reflect on what / how / why they are living. Audiences are invited to explore the intimacies of thought, feeling, and memory by interacting with tactile objects and sound in physical space.

As we collectively move towards gathering, life, so far offers folks a sacred space to explore reconnecting with personal intimacy in public spaces on their own time, in their own way. It is a welcome embrace after a time away. Come. Explore. Feel. Leave when you’re ready.

life, so far is currently in development in the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre 22/23 MSG Lab. This project was first developed in the Cahoots Theatre 20/21 Hot House Unit. Further development made possible through the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Theatre Creators Program from the Toronto Fringe.

what we found is part poem, memory, ritual, and reflection. What was lost, what was worth saving, what was let go of, and what was found instead? Years from now, a woman answers.

A short film/digital theatre project commissioned by Nightwood Theatre, hosted by the National Arts Centre. Created by Keshia Palm. Edited by Lucia Linares. Voiced by Carolyn Fe. Captions by Amanda Lin.

A digital community arts project inviting people to connect over stories and destinations during this time of social distancing. Alleycat races are unsanctioned bicycle races. This project keeps most elements of the alleycat, throws in storytelling, and scraps the race part. Use the email template to make your own!

Make Me An Alleycat was created with wheels from Claren Grosz, and funded by National Theatre School’s #ArtApart Initiative. Photo by Samuel Willis.

A queer love story scored entirely with overhead projector art presented at the Rhubarb Festival February 2017, with a subsequent full-length production at the Gladstone Hotel in 2018 produced by Pencil Kit Productions in partnership with grassroots artist collective Blank Canvas and the Gladstone. Shadow Girls was co-created by Keshia Palm and Claren Grosz.

Photo of Sofia Rodriguez and Liz Der by Claudia Yang.