Current

Staged Reading

The Motion

April 15-16, 2024

Shotgun Players at Ashby Stage - 1901 Ashby Avenue in Berkeley

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I'm performing in this staged reading of a new play by brilliant local playwright Christopher Chen

 

On Demand

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Video

Kurogo, the Silent One

Created for Shotgun Players' 3030 Vision Project

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I directed, edited, and acted in this piece inspired by an experience early in my theater career. In KUROGO, THE SILENT ONE, an Asian American performer reckons with invisibility, racism, complicity and how to heal.
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Film

Girl in Golden Gate Park

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I co-star in this indie noir film. Evicted from her San Francisco apartment and stranded in her car near Golden Gate Park, a woman makes a secret plan to defend her right to stay in the city she loves. GIRL IN GOLDEN GATE PARK is a mystery about holding on to who we are.

 

Past Projects

Performance

My Home on the Moon

Jan 25-Feb 24, 2024

San Francisco Playhouse - 450 Post Street in San Francisco

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I play a maybe brilliant, maybe evil tech CEO and a handful of odd ensemble parts, from sexy chef to lion dancer in this delightful new play by Minna Lee.

Performance

We Build Houses Here

May 4-20, 2023

OASIS - 298 11th Street in San Francisco

I'm excited to be performing in this immersive show in an iconic drag nightclub. It's theater, dance, music, and drag all smashed together with a shipwrick and queer community.

Theater

The Headlands

Feb 9 - Mar 5, 2023

American Conservatory Theater

Making my ACT debut in Christopher Chen's brilliant San Francisco noir-inspired play was a dream.

Theater

Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812

Nov 2023 - Feb 2023

Shotgun Players at the Ashby Stage

It was an honor to choreograph and co-direct (with Patrick Dooley) the west coast premiere of Dave Malloy's epic musical

Theater

Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)

May 11-29, 2022 | Magic Theater, San Francisco

I play the Amy, a marine biologist and the 2nd of the 4 sisters, and also a cartoon sloth named Cesar in this delightful play by Sam Chanse.

FILM

Detour Dance / Up On High

may 21-22, 2022 at 1pm | Roxie Theater, San Francisco

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UP ON HIGH is a 9-part dance film that follows a gaggle of kings + queens as they soar into futurism, queer legacy, and embodied ancestry. I'm featured in one of the films along with a few Sisters or Perpetual Indulgence.
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Reading

Tiger Beat

Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Friday, July 23, 5:30pm (on zoom)

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Tiger Beat follows the Girls Next Door, a pop girl group rising to fame in the early 2000’s. The group’s Asian American songwriter Tess finally gets a chance to sing lead, but the opportunity comes at what cost? I play Vivian, Tess' sister and the band's manager. I also play another character I can't reveal without a spoiler!
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reading

The Truer Story of the Chan Family

Saturday, Dec 14 at 1pm

Chinese Historical Society, San Francisco

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A staged readon of a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family.
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on stage

The Lady Matador's Hotel

October 12-November 17, 2019

Central Works at Berkeley City Club

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The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia follows the denizens of a luxurious hotel in the capital of an unnamed Central American country in the midst of political turmoil. There is the matadora in town for a bullfight. There is an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel. And there is a colonel who committed atrocities in the country’s long civil war. Each day, the pull of revenge and desire draws them closer and closer together. (I played Suki Palacios, the lady matador herself.)
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Shotgun Players

KILL THE DEBBIE DOWNERS! KILL THEM! KILL THEM! KILL THEM OFF!

March 21–May 4, 2019

The Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA

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I played Masha in this music and movement-filled devised theatre piece inspired by Three Sisters and directed by Mark Jackson & Beth Wilmurt.
photo by Jamie Lyons

photo by Jamie Lyons

Erika Chong Shuch

TheaterTheater

December 16, 2018

I'm one of the artists involved in this wonderfully experimental project, which is the brainchild of our fearless leader, Erika Chong Shuch. This was an informal showing to wrap up our 3rd round of experimentation and workshopping.

PlayGround presents Season 25 (2018-19)

Monday Night PlayGround

December 17, 2018 at 8pm

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison Street, Berkeley

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This was my first time reading in PlayGround! (In "Baby, It's a Zombie Apocalypse Outside" by Elizabeth Flanagan.) Each month, PlayGround announces a topic to a pre-selected writers pool of Bay Area emerging professional playwrights, inviting submissions of original ten-page plays. The top short plays are selected and presented as staged readings before a live audience. December's topic was: HOLIDAY MIRACLE.