Awards
SELECTED APPEARANCES
Esplanade, Singapore
Hong Kong Cultural Center
Adelaide International Arts Festival
Sapporo University, Japan
Graz, Austria
New Victory Theater, New York, NY
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
The Apollow, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Asia Society, New York, NY
Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX
The San Diego Repertory Theatre,CA
National Storytelling Festival, TN
Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Vancouver Folk Festival, Canada
Black Storytelling Festival, NY
East West Center, Honolulu, HI
Anchorage Concert Association, AK
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
Carnegie Mellon University, PN
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
New World Theater, Univ. of Mass.
Japan America Theater, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA
U.C. Santa Cruz, CA
Duke University, Durham, NC
AWARDS
Dream Speaker Award, Purple Moon Dance Project, 2010
Bold Vision Award, National Japanese American Historical Society, 2010
Honored for 30 years of contributing art and story to the people of San Francisco and beyond, by the Council General of Japan, 2010
US/JAPAN Artist Fellowship 2007
ASCAP Special Award (Amer. Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
1998 – 2006
National Endowment for the Arts
2007, 2006, 2004
National Endowment for the Arts,.
Solo Theater Fellowships, 1994, 1991
U.S. Congress- Civil Liberties Public
Education Fund Award, 1997.
Dramalogue Theatre Awards,
Best Performance & Writing, 1992
San Diego Critics Circle Award, 1992
INDIE Award, Best Spoken Word C.D.
1990 and 1999
AFIM INDIES Award – Best Spoken
Word Recording of 1999 – The Queen’s
Garden
Excellence 2000 Award, United States
Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce, 1996
One of 500 Most Influential Asians
in Avenue Magazine, 1996, 1997
Woman WarriorAward,
Pacific Asian American Women Bay
Area Coalition, 1996
Golden Ring Award, Asian American
Arts Foundation, 1997
New America Playwrights Festival,
1997.
NEACommissioning Award, 1994-
95, 1997 ,2001, 2002
RockefellerFoundation: Multi-Arts
Production Award, 1992 & 1993
Zellerbach Family Fund
1991-2004
New Langton/Multicultural Arts, 1991
California Arts Council Touring Roster, 1988 to 2005
And Individual Donors
