CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

2024 Attempts on Her Life (Director/Co-Artistic Director)
2018 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2016 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2017 TUTALab: The Man Who Turned into a Stick (Director)
2017 Gentle (Assistant Director, Movement Director)
2016 TUTALab: Have a Seat (Director)
2016 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2015 Music Hall (Movement Director)
2014 The Anyway Cabaret (an animal cabaret) (Movement Director)
2014 The Jewels (Movement Director)
2013 The Silent Language (Choreographer)

is a Chinese- and Irish-American theatre director, educator, and producer of live events. She is a co-artistic director of TUTA Theatre Chicago. She is also the Creative Producer for the Writing is Live Festival at Brown University, a member of the Roundabout Directors Group, a past 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, and the BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. MFA Directing from Brown-Trinity. Past work includes: A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Late Wedding, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, and The Tempest (Brown-Trinity); Cold War Choir Practice, Throwback Island, On The Y-Axis, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (Writing is Live); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Adelphi); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Montauciel Takes Flight (Lifeline Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists); A Hero’s Journey, The Hunting of the Snark, Robin Hood, and The Pied Piper (The Forks & Hope Ensemble); The Whiskey Radio Hour, Wake: A Folk Opera, Kodachrome Telephone and Sign of Rain (The Whiskey Rebellion). She has directed readings for New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, NY Classical Theatre, The Yale Drama Prize, Northern Stage, and Babes with Blades.


TUTA acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, The Light A City Fund, and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.