EDUCATION
New York University, New York
M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, May 2006
Smith College, Northampton, MA
B.A. in English, May 1998
PLAYS
Full-Length Plays
The Kimono Project
Ma-Yi Theatre, LabFest 2009
Yellow Peril 3.0
Yale Drama Series Prize Finalist, 2009
Ma-Yi Theatre, LabFest 2008
Artifact
New York Theatre Workshop Reading, 2007
New York University MFA Reading Series, 2006
Next Paris
North Avenue Productions’ Asian American Shorts, 2002
Women’s Theatre Alliance New Play Development Series, 2002
Chicago Dramatists’ 10-minute Play Fest (excerpt), 2001
One-Act Plays
Ein Berliner
Second Generation, SIX, 2008
New York University New Play Marathon, 2005
Aboveboard
Speaking Ring Theatre Vitality One Act Playwriting Festival, 2003
Chicago Dramatists’ Deadline Workshop, 2002
The Fix
Chicago Dramatists’ Deadline Workshop, 2003
Short Plays
To the End
Second Generation, FOURTEEN: Instant Vaudeville, 2011
Big Jimmy Bob’s Hot Lots
Bloomington Playwrights Project, 2nd Place, AwareFest
National Play Contest, 2010
Regarding the Sloth
Ensemble Studio Theater, Going to the River Reading Series, 2009
An Atomic Life
Theatre Limina Summer Shorts, 2007
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, 2006
New York University Ten-Minute Play Festival, 2005
Westward
(book and lyrics)
Raw Impressions New Musical Theatre Festival #16, 2005
Counterspace
Chicago Dramatists’ Workshop on War and Terrorism, 2003
Monologues
Redemption Can Come in an Instant
Second Generation, THIRTEEN: Instant Vaudeville, 2010
Yellow Pickled Radish
60 Seconds to Shine Volume IV: One-Minute Monologues from Literature, Smith & Kraus, 2008
SCREENPLAYS
Mood Indigo
Fusion Film Festival, Best Graduate Screenplay, 2006
AWARDS
Finalist, Heideman Award, Humana Festival,
Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2010
Second Place, AwareFest National Play Contest,
Bloomington Playwrights Project, 2010
Finalist, Yale Drama Series, 2009
Playwriting Fellow, New York Theatre Workshop, 2006 – 2007
Fusion Film Festival, Best Graduate Screenplay, 2006
Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting, 2006
Finalist, Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize, 2006
New York University Dramatic Writing Departmental Fellowship, 2004 – 2006
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Playwriting, 2002
Donahue Tremaine Residuary Trust Grant, 2002
AFFILIATIONS
Ma-Yi Theater Writers’ Group