Hello!

I am a theatre director working from a robust background in physical theater. I identify as mixed Chinese- and Irish-American and I use she/her/hers pronouns. I have experience developing new plays and musicals, re-imagining classics, site-specific work, theatre for young audiences, and producing live events—all of which sits on a bedrock of leadership through collaborative creation.

I am currently Co-Artistic Director of TUTA Theatre Chicago and the creative producer of the Writing is Live Festival at Brown University.

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Director

*denotes reading or workshop production

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New Plays and Musicals

• Sisters by Matthew Libby, Northern Stage

• Akira Kurosawa Explains his Movies and Yogurt (With Live and Active Cultures) by Julia Izumi, upcoming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

• Regretfully, So The Birds Are* by Julia Izumi, Clubbed Thumb

• Jar of Fat* by Seayoung Yim, Northern Stage and The Yale Drama Award at The Drama Book Shop

• untitled table play* by Jesús I. Valles, The Bushwick Starr

• Straight Wedding* by Kaia Lyons, Clubbed Thumb

• Hecuba* by Amanda Andrei, NY Classical Theatre

• Throwback Island* by Ronica Reddick, The Bushwick Starr and Writing is Live Festival

• The Frogs* by Thaddeus McCants, NYTW

• Cold War Choir Practice by Ronica Reddick, Writing is Live

• Wake: A Folk Opera by Jessica Wright Buha and Jenn Romero, The Whiskey Rebellion

• On The Y-Axis* by Lucas Baisch, Writing is Live Festival

• There is a House by Andrew Gombas, Brown-Trinity Rep

• Dragon* by Han Van Sciver, Brown-Trinity Rep

• The Brave Ones* by Jenny Nguyen Nelson, Brown-Trinity Rep

• Montauciel Takes Flight book by James Grote, music and lyrics by Russel Coutinho, Lifeline Theatre

• Child’s Play* by Frank Garland, Babes with Blades Theatre Company

• Kodachrome Telephone by Jessica Wright Buha, The Whiskey Rebellion at Rhinofest

• Sign of Rain by Jessica Wright Buha, The Whiskey Rebellion at Rhinofest

• Tennyson Spade by Jessica Wright Buha, The Whiskey Rebellion at Rhinofest

• The Whiskey Radio Hour by Various Writers, music by Brad Brubaker & The Crowd Goes Wild, The Whiskey Rebellion

• In This Final Century by John Michael Manship, Theatre-Hikes

• The Dictionary Project: One Minute Plays by Cassandra Rose, Chicago Dramatists

• In Brautigan’s Sugar* by Andrew Bailes, Forks & Hope Ensemble at Hairpin Arts

Original Adaptations

• A Christmas Carol adapted from Charles Dickens, Trinity Rep

• July 4, 1912*, NYTW

• (Medea) adapted from Euripides by the ensemble, Brown-Trinity Rep (interrupted by COVID-19)

• The Tempest adapted from William Shakespeare with music by Gunnar Manchester and Han Van Sciver, Brown-Trinity Rep Tour

• Ulysses adapted from James Joyce by Jessica Wright Buha and Aileen Wen McGroddy, The Plagiarists

• Summer and Smoke adapted from Tennessee Williams, Brown-Trinity Rep

• Gulliver* adapted from Jonathan Swift by Aileen Wen McGroddy & the ensemble, Forks & Hope Ensemble at the Greenhouse Theater Center

Extant Plays and Musicals

• The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh, Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center

• Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp, TUTA Theatre Chicago

• Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn, Adelphi University

• Sense and Sensibility adapted from Jane Austen by Kate Hamill, Northern Stage

• Airness by Chelsea Marcantel, Breckenridge Backstage Theatre

• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Winnipesaukee Playhouse

• The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen, Brown-Trinity Rep

• Or, by Liz Duffy-Adams, Winnipesaukee Playhouse and Portland Stage

• The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Brown-Trinity Rep

• Dani Girl book and lyrics by Christopher Diamond, music by Michael Koonan, Winnipesaukee Playhouse

• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical by Mo Willems, Emerald City Theatre

• The Snowy Day by Jerome Hairston, Emerald City Theatre Tour

• The Suitcase, The Boxer, and The Man Who Turned Into a Stick* by Kōbō Abe, TUTA

• 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Don Zolidis, Theatre-Hikes

Devised Work

• Songs for a Solstice created and performed by Jessica Wright Buha, Han Van Sciver, and Aileen Wen McGroddy, Northern Stage

• Still, Life at Dusk* created by Lizzy Brooks and Aileen Wen McGroddy, Brown-Trinity Rep

• Boitatá Garage #1 devised with Tatyana-Marie Carlo and Orlando Hernández for the East Rock Halloween Project

• A Hero's Journey by Christian Stokes & the ensemble, Forks & Hope Ensemble

• Have a Seat* devised with the ensemble, TUTA

• The Exploration of Sound* by Austin D. Oie and the ensemble, Forks & Hope Ensemble at Hairpin Arts

Theatre Made With Young People

• Reika and the Wolves by Aileen McGroddy, Mudlark Theatre and Trinity Rep YASI

• The Nose adapted from Nikolai Gogol by Aileen McGroddy, Mudlark Theatre

Movement Director

***Denotes Movement and Associate Director

Watch my movement directing reel.

• The Edge of Our Bodies by Adam Rapp, dir. Jacqueline Stone, TUTA at 59E59

• Music Hall by Jean-Luc Lagarce, dir. Zeljko Djukic, TUTA at 59E59

• The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll and the ensemble, dir. Josh Sobel, Forks & Hope Ensemble at Strawdog theatre, Chicago Parks Night Out, and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

• When They Came by MT Cozzola, dir. Jacqueline Stone, Lab@Piven Theatre

• Gentle by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, adapted and directed by Zeljko Djukic, TUTA

• The Jewels by Guy de Maupassant, adapted and directed by Kirk Anderson, TUTA

• The Anyway Cabaret by Martin Marion, dir. Jacqueline Stone, TUTA

• Robin Hood & Maid Marion*** by Alfred Lord Tennyson, dir. Matt Pierce, Forks & Hope Ensemble at Strawdog Theatre

• The Pied Piper*** adapted by the ensemble, dir. Josh Sobel, Forks & Hope Ensemble at Strawdog Theatre

• Best Beloved: The Just So Stories*** by Rudyard Kipling and the ensemble, dir. Josh Sobel, Forks & Hope Ensemble at Strawdog Theatre

• The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez by Peter Handke, dir. Zeljko Djukic, Theatre Y

• Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells by Allison Gregory, dir. Jacqueline Stone, Emerald City Theatre

• The Snowy Day*** by Jerome Hairston, Emerald City Theatre Mainstage

Assistant Director

• Black Dick by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, dir. Roy Alexander Weise, The O'Neill

• Marisol by José Rivera, dir. Brian Mertes, Trinity Rep

• An Iliad by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, dir. Charles Newell, Court Theatre

• The Revel by Damon Kiely, dir. Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, The House Theatre

• Fatelessness adapted by Andràs Visky and Adam Boncz from the novel by Imre Kertész, dir. Melissa Lorraine Hill, Theatre Y

• Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch adapted by Frances Limoncelli with music by George Howe from the book by Eileen Spinelli, dir. Ann Boyd, Lifeline Theatre