CV – Selected Credits

Selected projects included below.

CREATING AND PRODUCING

2025 (Upcoming)

  • Benevolence (World Premiere) – Creator, Writer, Performer, Tarragon Theatre / Why Not Theatre / Broadleaf Creative
  • Mahabharata – Lead Producer, Why Not Theatre / Perth Festival/Canadian Stage / National Arts Centre / Banff Centre
  • Eyes Wide Open (Workshop) – Producer, Naishi Wang / TO Live

2024

  • Benevolence Hall (World Premiere) – Creator, Toronto History Museums / Broadleaf Creative / Why Not Theatre — winner of inaugural Outstanding Innovative Experience Award at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards
  • What You Won’t Do For Love – Lead Producer and Dramaturg, Why Not Theatre at TIFF Lightbox
  • De Tal Palo – Associate Producer, Juan Ayala and Miguel Oyarzun / Madrid Essencia Festival
  • Benevolence (Documentary) – Director, MiniKino
  • What You Won’t Do For Love – Lead Producer and Dramaturg, Why Not Theatre / Vancouver Civic Theatre

2023

  • Mahabharata (World Premiere) – Lead Producer, Why Not Theatre / Shaw Festival
  • Mahabharata (International Premiere) – Lead Producer, with Michelle Yagi, Why Not / Barbican, London
  • Benevolence (Documentary) – Director, ReelAsian International Film Festival
  • Benevolence (Work In Progress) – Creator, Writer, Performer, Tarragon Theatre Greenhouse
  • Transmission – Playwright, Climate Change Theatre Action

2022

  • What You Won’t Do For Love – Associate Director, Producer, Dramaturg, Why Not Theatre / Luminato
  • Benevolence (Workshop) – Lead Creator, Projection Design, Tarragon Theatre Greenhouse Festival
  • Rosa’s Flowers (Short Film) – Projection Designer, dir. Amanda Ann-Min Wong
  • Beg Borrow Barter Steal – Projection Collaborator, dir. Murdoch Schon

2021

  • What You Won’t Do For Love (Digital Premiere) – Director, Producer, Why Not Theatre
  • R+J – Why Not Theatre Lead Producer, Stratford Festival / Why Not Theatre
  • Benevolence (U of T Alumni Incubator) – Creator, Performer, Projection Design
  • Climate Change and Other Small Talk – Consulting Artist, Sunny Drake
  • Beg Borrow Barter Steal – Projection Collaborator, Murdoch Schon
  • Proof of Existence – Projection Designer, Philip Nozuka
  • S.O.S How To Survive in a World That Is… – Dramaturg, Gloria Mok

2020

  • What You Won’t Do For Love (workshop) – Producer, Dramaturg, Why Not Theatre
  • The Chemical Valley Project (Museum Installation) – Creative Consultant, Broadleaf / Thames Art Gallery
  • The Chemical Valley Project (Live Stream + Tour) – Creator / Performer, First Ontario PAC + others
  • New Conversations – British Council Exchange Artist, Broadleaf / Blooming Ludus
  • Proof Of Existence (workshop) – Projection Designer, Philip Nozuka

2019

  • Prince Hamlet (National Tour) – Producer, Why Not, CS, PuSh, NAC, Banff
  • Good Morning, Viet Mom – Projection Designer, Cahoots Theatre
  • i swallowed a moon made of iron – Associate Producer, Music Picnic / Canadian Stage
  • Like Mother, Like Daughter – Producer, Why Not Theatre / Koffler Centre
  • The Chemical Valley Project – Producer / Creator / Performer, Broadleaf / Passe Muraille
  • Dinner With The Duchess – Producer, Duchess Collective / Next Stage

2018

  • The Chemical Valley Project (National/International Tour) – Producer / Creator / Performer, Broadleaf Theatre
  • Picnic in the Cemetery – Associate Producer, Music Picnic / Canadian Stage
  • Crossing Gibraltar: Our City Our Song – Program Coordinator, Cahoots Theatre
  • Not Yet – Director, KW Youth Theatre
  • In My Mother Tongue – Director, Koffler Centre
  • Mr. Shi and His Lover – Associate Producer, Music Picnic / Tarragon / NAC
  • Like Mother, Like Daughter – Producer, Why Not Theatre / Koffler

2017

  • The Chemical Valley Project – Producer / Creator / Performer, Broadleaf Creative / SummerWorks
  • Mr. Shi and His Lover – Associate Producer, Music Picnic / Tarragon Theatre
  • Other Side of the Game – Outreach Coordinator, Cahoots Theatre
  • Cahoots Theatre – Artistic Director Intern
  • Toronto Fringe Festival – Projects Manager
  • Mixed Company Theatre – Communications Director
  • Silk Bath – Producer, Silk Bath Collective / Next Stage

TEACHING AND SPEAKING

2024

  • Slow Touring Network – Guest Speaker x 2
  • Benevolence Hall, Artist Talk
  • The Chemical Valley Project, Artist Talk, College of Early Childhood Educators

2023

  • Objects and Personal Storytelling – Guest Artist / Facilitator, University of Toronto

2022

  • Objects and Personal Storytelling – Guest Artist / Facilitator, University of Toronto
  • My First Fringe – Guest Artist / Facilitator, Toronto Fringe

2021

  • Theatre Producing in Canada – Guest Speaker, George Brown College
  • “What Is Green Theatre” Panel – Panelist, Canadian Green Alliance
  • Objects and Personal Storytelling – Guest Artist / Facilitator, University of Toronto
  • Anti-Racist Theater (Prince Hamlet Case Study) – Guest Speaker, Yale Drama School
  • Centre Court (upcoming) – Co-Facilitator, Theatre Passe Muraille
  • Climate Justice and Storytelling (Pecha Kucha) – Guest Speaker, Arts Ahead / Humber College
  • Canadian Association for Theatre Research – Panelist (upcoming), CATR 2021
  • Next Generation Showcase – Panelist

2020

  • NAC Green Rooms – Moderator, National Arts Centre
  • Festival Administrators Program – Program Facilitator, Paprika Festival
  • Personal Storytelling for Interdisciplinary Artists – Guest Artist / Facilitator, McMaster University
  • Designing Paradise Program – Guest Artist / Speaker, McMaster University
  • Climate Justice and Storytelling (Pecha Kucha) – Guest Speaker, Net Impact Montreal
  • Telling Your Story as a Producer – Guest Artist / Facilitator, York Region Arts Council
  • From Campus Theatre to a Career in the Arts – Guest Speaker / Facilitator, University of Toronto Spotlight
  • Climate Justice and Storytelling (Pecha Kucha) – Guest Speaker, Arts Ahead / Humber College
  • Objects and Personal Storytelling – Guest Artist / Facilitator, Public Energy
  • Writing in Unravelling Times – Panelist, Guelph University MFA
  • Innovate MY Future – Climate Change Catalyst – Guest Speaker, Evergreen Brickworks
  • Raucous Reflectories – Guest Artist, RAUCOUS

ACTING

2025

  • Benevolence (World Premiere) – Tarragon Theatre / Broadleaf Creative

2019

  • Queens – Derek, Starfruit Productions, dir. Aaron Jan

2018

  • New World (workshop) – Kid, Carousel Players, dir. Monica Dufault
  • Marry Me, Marry Me, Marry Me – Dr. Ray, Paprika Festival, dir. Chris Manousos
  • Asylum – The Follower, TOnight Theatre, dir. Nicholas Walsh
  • Andrew’s Tree (Staged Reading) – Neil, Theatre Direct, dir. Lynda Hill

2017

  • Dreams – Isidore, Canadian Rep, dir. Ken Gass
  • Half Full – Josh, Mixed Company Theatre, dir. S. Malbogat
  • Terra Incognita – Collective Member, Terra Incognita Mask Collective, dir. Alex Simpson

EDUCATION

  • HBa (High Distinction) Drama and International Relations, University of Toronto — 2011-2016.
    Instructors included: Ken Gass, Sallie Lyons, Alyson McMackon, Cindy Block, Laurel Paetz, Banuta Rubess, and others.
  • President of the U of T Drama Coalition, 2014/15. Artistic Producer of the UC Follies 2015/16.
  • Generator Artist-Producer Training Program — 2015/2016
  • Inaugural class of the APT Program, led by Michael Wheeler and Katie Leamen.
  • Guest instructors included Naomi Campbell, Aislinn Rose, Mitchell Cushman, Ravi Jain, Derrick Chua, Marjorie Chan and others.

ARTS ADMINISTRATION

  • Director of Producing and Creative Associate – Why Not Theatre, 2023 to present
  • Senior Producer – Why Not Theatre, 2022-2023
  • MAKE Producer – Why Not Theatre, 2021-2022
  • Producer – Why Not Theatre, 2020-2021
  • Associate Producer – Why Not Theatre, 2018-2020
  • Associate Producer – music picnic productions, 2017-2020
  • Projects Manager – Toronto Fringe, 2017
  • Founder and Artistic Director – Broadleaf Creative (formerly Broadleaf Theatre), 2014 to present

AWARDS, JURIES AND DISTINCTIONS

  • Inaugural Winner of the “Outstanding Innovative Experience” Award at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards, 2024
  • Inaugural Winner of the Jini Stolk Creative Fellowship, 2023
  • Harold Award, House of Sarah Stanley – presented by Andrea Scott, Harolded Ryan G. Hinds
  • SummerWorks Emerging Artist Award, Honorary Mention 2017
  • fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre Future Generation Scholarship, Two-time recipient
  • British Council New Conversations Grant Recipient, 2019
  • OAC Theatre Projects and TAC Theatre Projects Grants, Numerous, 2016-Present
  • Theatre Ontario PTTP, Artistic Direction Mentorship Grant with Marjorie Chan, 2017
  • Board Member, Generator (2017-2019)
  • Gardarev Center Fellow, Two-time Fellow of the American social justice arts residency
  • PACT Sustainability Committee, founding committee member, 2021