The Inferno Project
The untitled play-in-development is an exploration of Dante’s Inferno through the playwright’s humorous self-reflection on mental health, religion, his atheistic point of view, and queer love. Guiding him throughout all the circles of hell is the spirit of his dead Filipino grandfather. Part ritual, part play, part comedy-drama with audience participation and some communal drinking.
dtroublewnormal, a study in temperament
A radical adaptation of Willa Cather’s 1905 short story “Paul’s Case." Paul, a young queer first generation Asian American teen from Memphis, TN, runs away to New York in hopes to lose himself in his dreams of the Metropolitan Opera; Rey, a NY-based Asian Am gay male, is trying to make sense of his HIV status; and a queer Asian American playwright, who cannot distinguish fact from fiction, faces head on his own mental health issues. The three stories intertwine and create a narrative that explores people's longing to find acceptance, belonging, celebration, community, love, and mentorship.
The untitled play-in-development is an exploration of Dante’s Inferno through the playwright’s humorous self-reflection on mental health, religion, his atheistic point of view, and queer love. Guiding him throughout all the circles of hell is the spirit of his dead Filipino grandfather. Part ritual, part play, part comedy-drama with audience participation and some communal drinking.
dtroublewnormal, a study in temperament
A radical adaptation of Willa Cather’s 1905 short story “Paul’s Case." Paul, a young queer first generation Asian American teen from Memphis, TN, runs away to New York in hopes to lose himself in his dreams of the Metropolitan Opera; Rey, a NY-based Asian Am gay male, is trying to make sense of his HIV status; and a queer Asian American playwright, who cannot distinguish fact from fiction, faces head on his own mental health issues. The three stories intertwine and create a narrative that explores people's longing to find acceptance, belonging, celebration, community, love, and mentorship.
Ntozake Shange's Why I Had to Dance
I was personally asked by playwright-director Ifa Bayeza to create a new three-person choreopoem based on her late sister Ntozake Shange’s essay “Why I Had to Dance” for her memorial presentation in the Anspacher Theater at The Public Theatre in New York. Using Ntozake's words, I created/edited/curated the text for three black women who take on the names of three dances in the Afro-Latinx diaspora.
I was personally asked by playwright-director Ifa Bayeza to create a new three-person choreopoem based on her late sister Ntozake Shange’s essay “Why I Had to Dance” for her memorial presentation in the Anspacher Theater at The Public Theatre in New York. Using Ntozake's words, I created/edited/curated the text for three black women who take on the names of three dances in the Afro-Latinx diaspora.
- First read, April 2019 @ The Public Theatre, New York, NY for a Memorial dedicated to Ntozake Shange.