I have over 20 years of experience leading complex collaborative arts projects, over 10 years of experience as an arts educator and leader in higher education, and 10 years of experience serving on governing boards of regional non-profit theater organizations including the Hawaiʻi State Theater Council and Region VII of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
My creative work is interdisciplinary and explores community, culturally relevant performance, transformative leadership, and anti-racism in arts education. I have directed a wide range of genres including film, new plays, community-collaborative work, indigenous theatre, musicals, theater for young audiences, classical theater, and bilingual theater - ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language)/English and Spanish/English. I promote arts training techniques that celebrate each artist’s ethnocultural traditions and that de-center Whiteness in artistic and teaching practice. My most recent research, “The Pursuit of Anti-Racism in University Theater,” involved a national study on theater-specific initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
My creative work is interdisciplinary and explores community, culturally relevant performance, transformative leadership, and anti-racism in arts education. I have directed a wide range of genres including film, new plays, community-collaborative work, indigenous theatre, musicals, theater for young audiences, classical theater, and bilingual theater - ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language)/English and Spanish/English. I promote arts training techniques that celebrate each artist’s ethnocultural traditions and that de-center Whiteness in artistic and teaching practice. My most recent research, “The Pursuit of Anti-Racism in University Theater,” involved a national study on theater-specific initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
