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What’s next?
January 2026 — Cry, Wolf is coming to the Bay Area with West Edge Opera! Ticket info soon.
What’s past?
October 2025 — Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria is named a finalist for the Relentless Award. The award is given in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adam Schlesinger, two of the best artists basically ever, so we’re pretty flattered. There’s a big fun party, I fall and scrape my knee by the end of the night.
September 2025 — Solo art song Gaia Builds the World is premiered in Boston with Catalyst New Music. Composed by Angela Yam. Separately and elsewhere, the opera The People vs. American Cheese is performed in Chicago with Thompson St. Opera. Composed by Durra Leung.
May 2025 — Death and Taxes is performed with the National Asian Arts Project in NYC.
February 2025 — Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria is in residence at the Goodspeed Opera House as a part of the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove. I cook two great soups and one that is just fine.
January 2025 — Cry, Wolf premiers in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center. It’s also performed in NYC at the Kaufman Center. I wear a sick outfit to both shows.
December 2025 — Erika Ji and I go to Tokyo to share a song in Toho Stage’s Songwriter Showcase.
November 2024 — Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria has a 2-week workshop at Theater Latte Da in Minneapolis. We get recognized as the writers of the show at a Hooters in the Mall of America.
August 2024 — Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria is a recipient of a 2024 MAP Fund grant.
July 2024 — Yoko’s Husband Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria is at Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat! Our tire blows out on two separate occasions.
May 2024 — I’m in residence with a new piece in The Workshop, North America’s first arts fellowship centering the work of Jews of color, Jewish-Indigenous, Sephardi & Mizrahi artists.
March 2024 — Washington National Opera announced their new season which (omggg) includes a commission I’m writing with composer JL Marlor. We’ll be premiering at the Kennedy Center (heard of it???) in January 2025.
August 2023 — I’m heading to Edinburgh, Scotland to work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the 4th time!
July 2023 — Yoko’s Husband Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria in development at the O’Neill New Musical Theater Conference.
June 2023 — The Yoko’s Husband Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria team is heading to the Orchard Project for a residency.
June 2023 – Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria is having a 29-hour reading as a part of the Civilians Findings Series. Co-produced with 5th Avenue Theater and NAMT.
Nothing happened before this. I wasn’t even born before June 2023.