I (They/He) am a designer for the stage, and a maker of paintings, props and practicals. While my emphasis is in scenic design, I consider myself an artist in many regards. Loathe to restrict myself, I will always consider myself a performer and writer. As an early career, queer, and biracial artist, I strive to center connection and community in my art, activism, and overlap of the two. 

Theatre has defined my life, so it has become my art form. Since childhood I have expanded from performance and delved into every aspect of the medium- as well as outside of it in my passion for digital illustration, collaborative writing, and character design- though I have found a great passion in recent years in scenic design. While the medium of scenic design has particularly struck my fancy with the freedom in what can be made physical on a stage, I refuse to call myself solely a scenic designer. There is little use I find in confinement, even less so when it comes to the form of my creative practice.  

The core ideal of my work is an ethos of kindness and care above all else. This does not mean politeness or softness. As a growing artist, the facade that often accompanies the industries of spectacle can be hard to shake. However, it is my goal as an artist to shed the layers that I can to hand those I influence a gentler beast that was handed to me. Art is my most practiced form of expression, when words jumble and slide over thoughts, an image or note or movement comes to mind much more easily. So it becomes even more important to me for my practice to speak to something larger than myself. As a queer Asian-American artist, I cannot avoid being a part of larger conversations and in fact I welcome it. If theatre is where I put my voice then I have to put it towards cause, make it part of my resistance. I hope to bring as much of myself as I can stand into every project I produce and every theater I step into.