Super excited to announce that Ravenous was named a Finalist for The O’Neill Congrats to all who’re heading there for the summer!
Ravenous (Semi-Finalist) at Princess Grace Playwriting Awards
Super Excited to announced that Ravenous came in as a Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Awards! Congrats to all who won!
Ravenous at Kitchen Dog Theatre's New Works Festival
Ravenous was selected to be part of Kitchen Dog Theatre’s New Works Festival, taking place June 15-29, 2019.
Ravenous (Semi-Finalist) at Bay Area Playwrights Festival
30 Floods at UTNT
30 Floods will be developed in Workshop this upcoming year as part of UTNT | University of Texas New Theatre for Spring 2019.
Creative Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm
I've been granted a Creative Residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm! I'll be heading up there mid-June to work on some new work. Stay posted; can't wait to get on the farm!
893 | Ya-ku-za at CAATA
893 | Ya-ku-za has been selected for presentation at the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists in Chicago, from August 13-18. Huge thanks to the folks at CAATA for having us!
Chicago friends: Come Check it Out!
Writer-in-Residence at The New Harmony Project
I've been selected as a Writer-in-Residence for The New Harmony Project! I'll be there May 21 - June 3rd developing a few projects. Huge thanks to the folk at The New Harmony Project for having me!
893 | Ya-ku-za at The Vortex
Produced by GenEnCo, 893 | Ya-ku-za will receive a Workshop Production at The Vortex from January 26-February 10, 2018. It will be directed by kt shorb.
Let Pour and When the Mob Comes at the ATX One Minute Play Festival
Two small (minute!) pieces of mine will be featured at the Austin One Minute Play Festival, which runs from August 29th & August 30th, 2017.
Come check it out! More information can be found here.
Faster Than Bullets Published in The Dionysian
Faster Than Bullets has been included in Issue 3 of The Dionysian.
893 | Ya-ku-za at UT
Thanks to everyone who came out to hear a reading of 893 | Ya-ku-za! It was great to have you and your brains in the room.
Special Thanks to: Alani Chock, Annie Kim Hendrick, and Margaret Jumonville for reading, and to KT Shorb for directing.
Arigatou Gozaimasu! More soon!
This Isn't New at The Museum of Human Achievement
anxious 20yr olds asked me to write a few monologues for their dance show "This Isn't New."
Come check it out: May 13 & 14th at the Museum of Human Achievement!
Golden at The New Works Festival
Along with 105, I co-wrote the libretto for Golden, an immersive mini-opera with Michael Zapruder.
Golden is a cutting-edge chamber opera that combines acoustic and electronic sounds, powerful voices and evocative immersive elements to tell the true story of a family whose belief in a magical golden object is tragically destroyed by the forces of technology.
It premiered at The Cohen New Works Festival, April 10-14, 2017 at The University of Texas at Austin. It was directed by Margaret Jumonville.
Photo: Lawrence Peart, Courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin
105 at The Cohen New Works Festival
105 is running as part of The Cohen New Works Festival, from April 10-14th. Come check it out!
105 at FronteraFest
105 is presenting a dance excerpt of Part 1: Walking Days at FronteraFest.
Presented by Hyde Park Theatre in collaboration with Scriptworks, FronteraFest is one of Austin's longest running Fringe Festivals, now in its 24th year of highlighting new, alternative and offbeat theatre.
Faster Than Bullets at HERE Art Center's Sanctuary
Faster Than Bullets was presented at Here Arts Center on February 14, 2017 as part of Sanctuary, presented by Less Than Rent Theatre.
The reading featured Amanda Salazar and Leslie Malaika Lewis with Harrison Densmore directing.
Faster Than Bullets a Semi-Finalist in NYCPlaywrights' Women in the Age of Trump
Faster Than Bullets has been named a Semi-Finalist in NYCPlaywright's Women in the Age of Trump.
893 | Ya-ku-za at 440
We did a closed reading of 893 | Ya-ku-za at 440 Studios, this past week. So great to have such brilliant minds in the room.
Huge Thanks to: Holly Chou, Rachel Lin, Kristan Seemel, and Sarah Haber.
Here's to making new work better.
The Sonnets Project at UT
Director Graham Schmidt asked me to step on to be Playwright-in-the-Room for the devised piece, "The Sonnets Project."
“The Sonnets Project” is an immersive, site-specific storytelling experience that invites audiences to consider, “If you had a chance to make a statement as you crossed over into the next life, what would you say?” Infused with music, dance, physical theater, and tons of love, “Sonnets” takes as its springboard the life of Wendy Johnson, a character from Jose Rivera’s play, "Sonnets for an Old Century." This is a performance about what we hold on to, and what we are able to leave behind, in an imagined waiting room between this life and the next.
The Sonnets Project ran from November 16-18th, 2016 at The University of Texas at Austin.
Director: Graham Schmidt
Playwright-in-the-Room: Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Scenic Designer: Iman Corbani
Lighting Designer: Alex Hanna
Costume Designer: Lirit Pendell
Ensemble: Miles, Agee, Jacob Basquez, Darlesia Carter, Jose Alejandro Figureoa, Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola, Elise Peterson, Tori Robertson, Hunter Sturgis, Oktavea Williams