hey y'all

first off, i'm a hoosier. 

i'm a mixed vietnamese-american, fat, queer femme, director, educator and collaborator originally from indiana. 

i'm drawn to complicated and chaotic stories of diaspora that are fast-paced and funny. I make work that creates a bridge between otherness and belonging. work that expands the american identity beyond monoliths into messy messy intersectionality. i do theatre because it has magic- it allows us to inhabit the present and conjures our future and past. 

RECENT HAPPENINGS 

fall 2024 i am the new Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre! I am so glad to be back home making theatre for the people of Indianapolis. My directorial debut is A Christmas Carol- one of the first professional productions I ever saw. 

spring 2024 it was a joy to direct JC Pankratz's new play eat your young in the INK'D Festival from the Playwrights Realm

fall 2023 i was so happy to direct Nina Ki's Moon Bear  in the Breaking the Binary Festival 

summer 2023 i was the associate director on Lizard Boy and part of the Mercury Store's Directing Intensive 

spring 2023  i directed Kate Hamill's Little Women with Perseverance Theatre in Alaska. and i was the transfer director for Sanctuary City at Berkley Rep & Arena Stage 

i spent summer 2021 as a Drama League Directing Fellow at the Hangar Theatre. 

i am member of the second class of the Roundabout Directors Group, and was a directing apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville. before that i was the SDC Observer on Hadestown with Rachel Chavkin, the learning and social accountability fellow at Baltimore Center Stage and  a founding member of the Asian Pasifika Arts Collective.

i live to pet every animal and am a five-star dogsitter