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04/2024

God Will Do The Rest makes its world premiere this Fall with Artists at Play and Latino Theater Co. (August 29-September 29)

03/2024

God Will Do The Rest was a finalist for Amphibian Stage's SparkFest

God Will Do The Rest was a semi-finalist for American Blues Theater's Blue Ink Award

I performed my solo play PWET with East West Players as part of The Solo Project

Monologues from The Bottoming Process and God Will Do The Rest will be published by Smith and Kraus in The Best Men's and Women's Stage Monologues 2024

02/2024

Multiple Loads was selected for Abingdon Theatre Company's 2024 Virtual Short Play Festival

01/2024

God Will Do The Rest had a workshop with Artists at Play, directed by Fran de Leon and featuring Jon Jon Briones and Melody Butiu

12/2023

I was a semi-finalist for the Dramatists Guild Foundation's Nationwide Virtual Playwriting Fellowship
My essay Worth A Bullet was published on The Books That Made Us
A monologue from The Bottoming Process was published in Smith and Kraus' The Best Men's Monologues 2023 

11/2023

The Bottoming Process was nominated for 8 Broadway World Awards—including Best New Play

10/2023
I was selected to join East West Players' inaugural The Solo Project writers lab

07/2023

My book Other Monologues is now available from Astringent Press

06/2023

The Bottoming Process had its world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company & the LA LGBT Center

I was featured on TFC News Hollywood with Yong Chavez to talk about The Bottoming Process
My essays "Reflecting on Identity and Representation" and "The Forgotten Asian" were published by Fil-Am Jam
Launched the Substack My Ugly Mouth, a collection of writings about my life and the pop culture that made me.

05/2023

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets was featured in American Stage's First Monday Series

I was a guest on the Dennis Anyone? Podcast to talk about The Bottoming Process

I was a guest on air with KPFK 90.4's The Out Agenda to talk about The Bottoming Process

04/2023

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets is now published by Samuel French

My Dog Died; and Other Concerns was named a finalist for Amphibian Stage's SparkFest

03/2023

My Dog Died; and Other Concerns was honored as The Ignite Project Pick and had a staged reading in EST/LA's Winterfest
God Will Do The Rest was the recommended play of the month on American Theatre's The Subtext Podcast: "The play filling me up is God Will Do The Rest...this is a fantastic multi-generational play. I'd very much love to see it."
God Will Do The Rest was named a finalist for The New Harmony Project

02/2023

A monologue from The Bottoming Process will be published this fall in Smith and Kraus' The Best Men's Monologues 2023 

God Will Do The Rest had a staged reading at the Geffen Playhouse directed by Rodney To, starring Jon Jon Briones

01/2023

Inquirer.net did a feature on God Will Do The Rest at the Geffen Playhouse
My Dog Died; and Other Concerns was workshopped in The Workshop Theater's Winter Intensive

12/2022

God Will Do The Rest had a workshop at the Geffen Playhouse

My Dog Died; and Other Concerns had a staged reading in EST/LA's First Flame

11/2022

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets was presented in art for human sake's 2022 Winter Festival

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets was be presented in American Stage's First Monday reading series in May 2023

10/2022

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets was presented in Artists at Play's AAP Fest!

09/2022

The Bottoming Process makes its world premiere in IAMA Theatre Company's 2022-23 Season, directed by Rodney To and starring George Salazar

I joined Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA's The Ignite Project cohort to develop a brand new play

Okay, Bye. was named a semi-finalist for Mentorship Matters TV Writing Fellowship

08/2022

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets won the 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival and will be published and licensed by Samuel French

06/2022

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets is a Finalist for the 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival

03/2022 

An excerpt from if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets is featured in Still Sobbing in Seafood City by Sampaguita Press

12/2021 

The Bottoming Process was presented as part of Victory Gardens' Ignite Chicago Festival of New Plays

11/2021

I will be in residence at the Geffen Playhouse for the 21/22 season as part of The Writers' Room

10/2021 

if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets was presented in IAMA Theatre Company's Pass the Mic Festival

09/2021
The Bottoming Process had a reading with Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco
Inquirer.net did a feature on if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets

08/2021        
Young Dumb Broke High School Kids was a semi-finalist for the Morgan-Wixson New Works Festival

07/2021
The Bottoming Process was featured in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival's PlaySlam
I was as a semi-finalist for Theater Mu's playwright incubator Mu Tang Clan
I moderated a conversation on new play development for the Artists at Play Podcast                              

06/2021        

I'm featured on the Artists at Play Podcast performing my monologue Wine Not?

05/2021        

The Bottoming Process was an a finalist with honorable mention at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

02/2021        

Dealing was named One of the Best Podcasts of 2021 by Music Times

12/2020        

My holiday song Ho Ho Ho by Becky and Baldwin is now streaming on all platforms

09/2020        

The Bottoming Process was featured in an Impakter article about virtual theatre

08/2020        

My monologues headlined Becky and Baldwin's virtual festival Other Monologues

07/2020        

The Bottoming Process was presented in the IAMA Under 30 Playwrights Lab Series