Recent Highlights
Selected for and currently in Dramatic Question Theater (DQT)’s PlayTime cohort, revising my play Balikbayan;
Selected for and attended Fresh Ground Pepper’s (FGP’s) BRB Retreat, revising my play Columbus: Our Idiot Hero to lean into the commedia dell’arte;
Selected for and participated in Ma-Yi’s Playwriting Workshop with public sharing of a work-in-progress, Shifting Allegiances;
Completed 1st draft and public sharing of Columbus: Our Idiot Hero with Garden State New Play Festival (New Jersey Play Lab & Jersey City Theater Center; and
Completed private reading of first draft of Balikbayan with Playful Substance Theater Company.
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Sisyphus was never so hilarious!
The gift for any playwright: an actor who lifts your words off the page and makes them better than you imagined. Or in other words: MARTHA WOLLNER.
Reclaiming space in a colonized history
In a world where truth and history are up for debate, I am deeply curious about the breadth of what we’ve been taught. Whose stories are missing from official histories? What can I, and my fellow artists do to revive and reclaim space in a colonized world?
Thank you, Saltonstall!
I am proud to have been selected as an alternate for the Saltonstall Artist/Writer Parent/Caregiver Residency in May 2025.
Echoes Writers Group at Primary Stages
I am thrilled to announce that I am a member of the Echoes Writers Group 2024-2025 cohort, housed at Primary Stages!
“Without me, they can’t write the words”
“Without the pen, they can’t write the words.” A prompt and workshop from Exodus Oktavia Brownlow at TLAN’s Power of Words.
Raised Pinay
I am part of the 5th generation of Raised Pinay, which focused on Filipina (Pinay) motherhood; so, people who grew up Pinay and are raising Pinay or Pinoy children.