Last Update 1/1/09

Happy Holidays!

May we all find it more possible than ever to be the change we want to be...

Transcending

We've had an amazing 2009! Our documentary film, TRANSCENDING - THE WAT MISAKA STORY was honored by the Honolulu International Film Festival with the Gold Kahuna Award, the Emerging Eye Directorial Discovery Award from the Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival and was an official selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Carmel Art and Film Festival and the San Diego Asian Film Festival!

We are currently raising finishing funds so that the film can be available for public sales, aiming for a March, 2010 release date. Please visit the film's website for much, much more: http://www.watmisaka.com

 

More on the writing front: after my play THE NEW DEAL was developed by the Roundabout Theatre Company in its "Different Voices" program in June 2006, I wrote its' prequel, PAPER SON. I'm excited to report that this play is now included in the "Multi-cultural Drama" curriculum at the University of Michigan/Flint, as well as in the Playwriting curriculum at Wesleyan University. Other plays include INTERNAL BLEEDING, ADVENTURES OF A FAUX DESIGNER HANDBAG and THE PERFECT WIFE.

 
Seven I continue to be involved with an intense and provocative "documentary play" called SEVEN, written by 7 playwrights about 7 real global female activists. The brilliant Catherine Filloux wrote the sections about Mu Sochua, former Minister of Women's Affairs in Cambodia, who I am honored to portray. This project is sponsored by an amazing organization called Vital Voices. (www.vitalvoices.org)