About Me
I’m a multidisciplinary performing artist. Acting is my main focus, on stage and on screen. I also dance, sing (a bit), and play the violin and guitar. Behind the scenes, I do some choreographing and directing. Whatever my role, I love the collaborative nature of performance making. Devised and interdisciplinary work is particularly dear to my heart.
Background
In another life I was a classical musician. I played violin and viola. I attended San Francisco Conservatory of Music for viola for a year before being sidelined by a pinched nerve.
In another life I was a modern dancer. I danced with a bunch of Bay Area dance companies, and I founded my own company, EmSpace Dance in 2000. Over the company’s 18 year life, I created over 30 live performance works, from pure movement, to site specific, to hybrid dance/theater, plus a couple of short dance films.
And now…
I’m a hyphenated performing artist. Most often, I’m an actor or a performer-collaborator developing material in a devising process. I direct from time to time. Recent directing credits include the film Truer History of the Chan Family, written and produced by Eugenie Chan and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, co-directed with Patrick Dooley at Shotgun Players, which I also choreographed.
Honors
Best Female First Time Film Maker, TigerTail Asian Film Festival (2025)
Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Nomination for Best Featured Performance in a Comedy in a house with 100 to 300 seats (for My Home on the Moon, 2024)
Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Nomination for Best Featured Performance in a Drama in a house with 100 to 300 seats (for Angels in America, 2024)
Nomination for Isadora Duncan Award in the revival category for Monkey Gone to Heaven (Redux) (2018)
Della Davidson Prize (for innovative dance theater artists) (2016)
Resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (2007 and 2011)
SF Bay Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Award (2008)