New Canadian play developed with fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company

Based on the St. Louis World Fair of 1904 where over 1,000 Filipinos were imported to America to be featured in a human zoo, we follow the story of two Filipina women and one Filipina girl lost to its history who remain buried 13,000 kilometres away from home. 

twice blessed is an oddly absurdist, Beckett-like story. With a stage covered in soil and a god eating dog, these three characters find family and joy in one another among their simulacrum of home.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for multiple years of development funding.

New Canadian play in development

Set in 1665 New France, we follow a group of les filles du roi as they make a new home in what is now called Canada.

Based on the history of les filles du roi with a narrative structure inspired by Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, this piece will connect land (both near and afar), women, and untold histories. Emilia serves as a powerful exploration of the human spirit, shedding light on the intertwined destinies of women and nations, and the enduring struggle of love and duty --or the personal and the political.

Thank you to Green Light Arts for their RGTC support through the Ontario Arts Council in 2025.

Master of Arts Thesis with the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance.

This thesis explores the pre-colonial Filipinx concept of pagkikipagkapwa—being ultimately connected to one another and the world around us—in the process of Filipinx Canadian theatre artists.

Research partners include Byron Abalos, Nina Lee Aquino, Leon Aureus, Marie-Leofeli Barlizo, Maddie Bautista, Romeo Candido, Andrea Mapili, Christina Orjalo, Daniella Dela Pena, Kodie Rollan, and Nadine Villasin. Thesis supervisors Dr. Xing Fan and Dr. Jill Carter.

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In Conversation with Kevin Matthew Wong’s The Chemical Valley Project.

Founding Broadleaf Theatre in 2014 and co-creating The Chemical Valley Project in 2017, Kevin Matthew Wong has kept that inner kid alive, and through his artistic work is dedicated to amplifying environmental issues. Marissa interviews him for Intermission Magazine.