Fear & Wonder

A Queer Teenage Romance

Heartstopper meets Hillsong

In a forbidden love story, Jabez and Ryan, two boys of color, navigate a Christian summer camp together in the early 2000s. Their friendship quickly grows into a budding romance that they try to keep alive after returning home. Challenged by their parents, the hazards of landline phones, and their faith, they are forced to secrecy. Finding solace in each other and their shared love of music, theology, and Harry Potter; the reality of living in between two worlds threaten to keep them apart as they navigate their blossoming queer identities and teenage angst in their conservative faith communities.

2M, 1W

Development History: Readings - Judson Memorial Church (2019), BIPOC Playwright Festival - Boise Contemporary Theatre (2022), Bay Area Playwrights Festival (April 2024), Food:Soul - Flux Theatre Ensemble/Judson Arts (June 2024)

Ghost Money

An inter-generational drama

A Chinese-American family grapples with the impending death of a matriarch.

3W, 3M, 1NB

2020 Bay Area Playwrights Semi-Finalist; 2020 National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist

Developmental History: Reading - Dramatist Guild (2019), Flux Theatre Retreat (2021), Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (2023)

RIZING

a zombie thriller with a sci-Fi Twist

Rizing is set many years after the zombie apocalypse in Shelter, the last living city on Earth. Infected family members, friends, and lovers have been rehabilitated thanks to a daily regimen of drugs and therapy, but the uninfected that have brought them back do not trust them. Now the drugs are starting to wear off, and Shelter’s two-tiered society is poised on the verge of all-out war. Characters on both sides must choose between rebuilding the world as it was and creating a new one by force.

13 Characters, all Open Gender/Open Ethnicity

Development History: Readings - Flux Theatre Ensemble Little Pond Retreat (Summer 2015), Judson Memorial Church Bailout Theater w/ Flux Theatre Ensemble (January 2016); Full Production - Flux Theatre Ensemble @ Access Theatre (May 2016)

Like Father

A Queer Contemporary Adaptation of Oedipus Rex

Joe asks his old friend, Tyrese--a former drag queen--to help run the Provincetown bed and breakfast he recently acquired with his late husband. Eddie arrives looking for work, but bearing a secret past that threatens Joe's carefully manicured present.

3M, 1W, 1?

Apotheosis

a pan-mythic gender epic

Danny, a young drag queen, stumbles upon an ancient struggle for power between the gender gods. Sophie, Danny's best friend, secures the aid of Danny's waning divine patron, Lily, the God of Drag Queens and Gender Misfits, and they set out on an epic quest of identity, power, love, and sacrifice.

3 W, 3M, 1?

Development History: Readings - Flux Theatre Ensemble "Have Another" Reading series (February 2014)

Same Same

a Queer Asian Farce

Kelvin and Victor's lives are turned upside down when Victor's mother, June, makes an unannounced visit. Victor isn't out yet, so they rent an apartment on AirBnB from Tristan in order to stage it as Victor's apartment. Familial tensions flare as flames, new and old, threaten Kelvin and Victor's relationship. Meanwhile, June grapples with her own secrets.

2W, 3M

Development History: Readings - Mission to Ditmars, Launch Pad Reading series (August, 2017)

A Gang of Witnesses

10 Minute play 

A theatrical account of the true story of "Rafael," a young Latino man in New York City, who was racially profiled, arrested, and falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. Told through a choral ensemble of his advocates, Rafael's story exposes the deeply broken immigration system and the immoral law enforcement-deportation industrial complex.

5 actors, Open Gender/Open Ethnicity

Created for Flux Theatre Ensemble's Breathe Free  

The Ballad of Dwayne the Dweeb

10 minute play

Everyone knows a Dwayne the Dweeb, heck you might have been him in high school. Set in a quasi-mythic high school setting, Dwayne speaks to the enthusiastic Other in all of us as he learns to stand up for himself, as well as discovers new parts of his identity.

1 M

Created for Flux Theatre Ensemble's Extra Credit monologue series

Applaudable

live Demo | Github | Video tour

Applaudable creates easy mobile-optimized web-based electronic programs for any event. I had the idea for this application after attending a theater performance where the audience was directed to a url to access an e-program, only to find the link only lead to a downloadable pdf. Applaudable is the easy web-native solution that allows arts producers to save on printing costs and engage their audiences on the devices they already have on hand. Built with Vue.js with a Google Firebase back-end.

Scriptsure

Live Demo | Github: Client / API

As a playwright, I wanted to create a scriptwriting application that married the aesthetics of Medium with the functionality of FinalDraft. Key features are a killer splash page, which combines a videocover with color grading via CSS animations, rich text editing with DraftJS (with custom block styles and custom key bindings).  Built with React/Redux/Rails stack.

DistressCall

live demo | Github: Client / API

This is a SMS-based application that helps people dealing with mental health/addiction ask for help from their trusted friends. Integrated with the Twilio API to programmatically send text messages to everyone in a user's selected circle of supporters. Users can create multiple circles in different fellowships or support groups. Built with React/Rails stack.

Does it Bechdel?

Live DEMO | Github: Client / API

A simple data visualization application that uses a data set from FiveThirtyEight which tracked over 1,700 films and whether or not they passed the Bechdel test. I used the Open Movie Database (OMDB) to expand the data set to include associate actors and directors for each movie. Built with React and Rails.

New York Times Flipper

Live Demo

I created a simple Flipboard-inspired reading experience for The New York Times using Vue.js.

The concept was simple, a comic book of slash pairings in a coloring book. I've been fascinated by the pop culture tradition of "slash," and I sought to create a fun book that would embody the *squee* of seeing your favorite slash couple while also getting to participate in the art that celebrates them. Color your favorite queer couples in fandom! Couples included: Finn/Poe, Janeway/Seven of Nine, Harry/Draco, Thor/Storm, Johnny Storm/Reed Richards, Kirk/Spock/Sulu, Mako/Wu, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, Misty Knight/Colleen Wing, Janet Van Dyne/Wanda Maximoff, and more!