THEATRE and PUBLIC PROJECTS :: Producer, Designer and Company Manager
The Land Remembers, with PODER, and Hummingbird Farm, SF 2026-2027
Pictures from Home, by Sharr White, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Marin Theater Company June 2026
Rashomon by Sean San Jose, Ashley Smiley, directed by Edris Cooper, Creative Team Tanya Orellana, Brittany White, Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, April 2026
Macbeth, adaptation Play On Shakespeare and Campo Santo, The Magic Theatre, February 2026
Try/Step/Trip, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Roberta Uno. Gulan Theatre, New York for Under the Radar, January 5 - February 1, 2026
Jerry Garcia by Richard Montoya, The Magic Theatre, October 2025
Atzlan by Luis Alfaro, directed by Kinan Valdez, Creative Team Tanya Orellana, Alejandro Acosta, Chris Sauceda, Joan Osato, July 2025
the boiling by Sunhui Chang, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, The Magic Theatre, May 2025
Cuckoo Edible Magic by Reed Flores, Directed by Michelle Talagrow [projection design] for SFBATCO, The Magic Theatre, April 2025
Be Like Water by Kat Evasco, Directed by Anna Maria Luera, Brava Theatre, April 2025
Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind by Virginia Grise, The Magic Theatre March 2025.
Richard II, adapted by Naomi Iizuka, Directed by Dr. Karina Gutierrez The Magic Theatre, Aug/September 2024
Garuda’s Wing by Naomi Iizuka, Directed by Margo Hall, The Magic Theatre, June 2024
Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad by Ashley Smiley, Directed by Rayelle Myrick-Hodges, The Magic Theatre, March 2024
Dark Heart by Golda Sargento, Directed by Michelle Talagrow [projection design] for Bindlestiff May 2024
Larry The Musical, Book by Gayle Romasanta. Music by Bryan Pangilinan & Sean Kana.Based on the book “Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong”by Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta, Directed by Billy Bustamante, Brava Theater, March/April 2024
Nothing Micro about Micronesia by Leilani Chan, [principal design[ Teada Productions, Hawai’i, Guam, Saipan 2025
EARTHSEEDS, by the Peoples Kitchen Collective, Statewide California May 10, 2023 - May 19, 2024
Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vanguard Theater, NJ
Prieto by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Sean San Jose, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago IL
Life is Living 16th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 8 - 25, 2023
Travelers by Luis Alaro, Directed by Catherine Castellanos, Los Angeles Theater Center, Los Angeles, CA November 2023
DUGO by Sean San Jose, Rachel Lastimosa, Patricia Ong Baretto, Christopher Sauceda, Ashley Smiley and Joan Osato, Southside Theater, June 24-25, 2023
Josephine’s Feast, by Star Finch, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, The Magic Theatre, June 1 - 25, 2023
Tomorrow's Memories: A Little Manila Diary by Matthew Welch, Directed by Sean San Jose, The Magic Theatre, June 2023
N*Lovers, by Marc Anthony Thompson, The Magic Theatre, May 3 - 25, 2023
Plantation Remix by Cristal Truscott, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville TN March 2 - 3, 2023
Travelers by Luis Alaro, Directed by Catherine Castellanos, The Magic Theatre, Feb 15 - March 12, 2023
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, Wallis Annenberg Center Beverly Hills, CA January 29 - Feb 6, 2023
Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Tanya Orellana and Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, January 2023
Side Effects by Star Finch, Directed by Sean San Jose, The Magic Theatre November 17, 2022
Prieto by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Sean San Jose, MACLA San Jose, CA November 7 - 17, 2022
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, USC Vision and Voices, Los Angeles, CA November, 2022
Life is Living 15th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 8 - 25, 2022
Prieto by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Kat Evasco, Brava San Francisco, CA September 3 - 15, 2022
We The Peoples Before, Directed by Roberta Uno. 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center/25th Anniversary of The First Peoples Fund, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, June 26 - July 1, 2022
25th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, The Kennedy Center’s The Reach, July 19 - 25, 2022
Not My First Pandemic by César Cadabes’ Directed by Kat Evasco, Brava San Francisco CA June, 2022
The National Performance Network Mid Year Conference, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, June 1- 4, 2022
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, University of Manoa, Oahu HI, May 21 - May 30, 2022
Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Tanya Orellana and Joan Osato, The Audium San Francisco May, 2022
Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Sandglass Theater Putney VT, April 5 - 11, 2022
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA March 24-26, 2022
Otto Frank by Roger Guenvere Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA March 11 -27, 2022
Shelter by Bennett Fisher, Directed by Omar Metwally, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA February 25 -26, 2022
Tomorrow's Memories: A Little Manila Diary by Matthew Welch, Directed by Sean San Jose, January - June, 2022
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Utah Presents Salt Lake City, UT, November 19 -20, 2021
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco, USC Los Angeles CA, October 21, 2021
Life is Living 14th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 9 - 11, 2021
Laveau, by Brit Frazier, Directed by Margo Hall, Online Premiere August 21, 2021
24th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, July 2 - 25, 2021
Hotel Angulo by Luis Saguar, Directed by Margo Hall, Online Premiere April 9, 2021
Technical Assistance Program for Oakland Arts, November 9 - December 10th, 2020 (Online virtuals workshop series, 15 sessions for artists and organizations in Oakland, CA)
Rashomon by Sean San Jose Directed by Mina Morita, Postponed.
Life is Living, a community engagement project presenting a new model for partnerships between diverse and under-resourced communities, green action agencies, and the contemporary arts world. Oakland (for the past 13 years), Philadelphia, Chicago, Norfolk July - October 2020 (Online Festival September 10 - October 12, 2020)
Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Joan Osato and Tanya Orellana, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, HI & Crockett Historical Museum, CA. August - October 2020 Exhibition Crockett Museum. (Postponed)
We So Bay/Echoes Weekend, Directed by Sean San Jose featuring Kronos Quartet, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks Poets, Ryse Center, Rising Rhythms, ODC Theater San Francisco, BART from Richmond to 24th Street/Mission Station, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco CA March 7th (3 performances), 2020
Side Effects by Star Finch Directed by Sean San Jose, African American Arts and Culture Complex, San Francisco April 2020 (postponed and produced as a film)
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, Dance Mission, San Francisco CA February 24-28, 2020
Translating Selena, By Richard Montoya Directed by Sean San Jose, featuring Marga Gomez, Richard Montoya, Brian Rivera, Jordan Don, Yiyo Ornelas and PerSia, Brava Cabaret San Francisco, CA January 29 - February 4, 2020
Moving and Passing, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Amara Tabor Smith, Yaw Agyeman, Tommy Shepherd and Traci Tolmaire, Guggenheim Museum Residency and Community Engagement Project at Queen Lili’oukalani Trust, Maui HI November 6 - 12, 2019
Who Shot La Miguelito, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley CA October 17 - 20, 2019
pehlotah by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael Garces, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului HI, February 26 - March 7 - 14, 2019
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, Victory Gardens Theater, DePaul University August 2018.
21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, July 22 - 26, 2018
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco, October 2018, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, March 2018, Honolulu Theater for Youth, March 2018
Chasing Mehserle, by Chinaka Hodge, Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Hi-Arts, NY February 16 - 28, 2018, he John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington DC March 7 - 8, 2918
People’s Kitchen Collective: STREETS! May 20, 2018
National Asian American Theater Festival in association with Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago IL August 13 - 19, 2018
Black Woman is GOD: Portrait Series , by BWIG Collective, Somarts Cultural Center, San Francisco, cA August 30, 2018.
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco CA October 2018
Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, March 12 - 18, 2017
Ethos de Masquerade, with Rashad Pridgen and Campo Santo, ACT Strand, August 16 - 27, 2017
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, October 2016
Babylon is Burning, by Campo Santo, World Premiere, ZSpace, January 2016
Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Traci Tolmaire, Dahlak Brathwaite, Michael Wayne Turner, Juliette Jones, Harlem Stage, June 2016
H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars Eventually) by Star Finch, Directed by Sean San Jose, ACT Strand, June 2016
NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Mesa Arts Center, November 2016
/peh-lo-tah/, by Marc Bamuthi Josesph, directed by Michael John Garces, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, October 2016
5th National Asian American Theater Festival and Conference, with CAATA and Oregon Shakespeare Festival September/October 2016
NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Borderlands Theater, September 2016
NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel County (work in progress production) by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, August 2015
The Colored Museum, New Works by Andrew Wilson, ZSpace and Impact Hub Oakland, 2015
The Saga of the Return, by Shannon Matesky (work in progress), Intersection for the Arts, September 2015
red, black and GREEN: a blues, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael John Garces, ZSpace September, 2015
Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, directed by Sean San Jose and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2015
Chasing Mehserle, by Chinaka Hodge, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2014
The River, by Richard Montoya, directed Sean San Jose, 2013
Tree City Legends, by Dennis Kim, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2012
red, black and GREEN: a blues by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael John Garces, 2011
Word Becomes Flesh, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Majestic Theatre, Dallas, TX, 2010
Mirrors in Every Corner, by Chinaka Hodge, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Intersection, 2010
Reflections of Healing, by Brett Cook. A public art project in Oakland, CA 2009 - Present
War Peace: The One Drop Rule, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Project Artaud Theatre, 2009
Mapa Corpo 3, by La Pocha Nostra, directed by Guillermo Gomez Pena, 2009
unbuckled, uncensored, by Regie Cabico, directed by Brian Freeman, 2009
Monday Golden Sun, directed by Jeannie Barroga, Brava Theatre, 2009
Bury Marcos, by Jason Mateo, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2008
Life is Living, Oakland, Houston, Chicago, Harlem, Minneapolis, Washington DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia 2008 - Present
the break/s: a mixtape for stage, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael Garces, 2008
Regarding Women, by Michelle Mush Lee, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2007
Inferno, by Dante directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, 2006
In Spite of Everything, by the Suicide Kings, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2006
Representa! By Paul S. Flores, directed by Danny Hoch, Project Artaud Theatre, 2006
Scourge, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chinaka Hodge, Eli Marienthal, directed by Kamilah Forbes, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005
Fear of a Brown Planet, by Paul S. Flores, Mark Pinate, directed by Tony Garcia, Project Artaud Theatre, 2005
Word Becomes Flesh, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Directed by Deborah Gibson, ODC Theatre 2003
Cause, by Kirya Traber, Emiliano Bourgois-Chacon, Luke Brekke-Miesner, Ise Lyfe and Jason Mateo, Directed by Robert Moses, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2003
The Cure, by Joel Tan and Ginu Kamani, Directed by Joel Tan, Jon Sims Center 2001
Sisters Matsumoto, by Philip Kan Gotanda, Directed by Sharon Ott, Seattle Repertory Theatre 1999 – 2000
Sisters Matsumoto, by Philip Kan Gotanda, Directed by Sharon Ott, San Jose Repertory Theatre, 2000
Bare, by Toa Fraser, Directed by Rena Owen, New Langton Theatre, 1998
The Butcher’s Burden, By Harold S. Byun, Directed by Kelvin Han Yee, 1998 Somarts
The Clouds, The Ocean and Everything In Between, by Michael Premsirat, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, 1997
EXHIBITIONS and VISUAL DESIGN :: INDIVIDUAL ARTIST
1984 "94110" SF CAMERAWORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
2009 “Bay Area Currents 2009”, PROARTS/OAKLAND ART GALLERY, OAKLAND, CA
2009 “Monday Golden Sun”, Photographic Installation, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Box Art Benefit 2009”, PROARTS GALLERY, OAKLAND, CA
2010 “Mirrors in Every Corner”, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue, Solo Exhibition and Installation, Ictus Gallery, San Francisco
2012 “Tree City Legends”, by Dennis Kim, Visual Design, The Living Word Project/Campo Santo
2012 “Reimagine What We Cannot Realize”, Exhibit Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2013 “The River”, by Richard Montoya, Visual Design, Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts
2013 “Future Soul Think Tank, Field of Inquiry” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2013 “Califas” with Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, Calshakes and The Triangle Lab
2013 “Alleluia” by Luis Alfaro, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Visual Design, Campo Santo/Calshakes
2013 “Spiritrials” by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2014 “Tribes” by Nina Raine, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2014 Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue, Solo Exhibit and Installation, OMI Gallery/Impact Hub Oakland
2014 "Chasing Mehserle" by Chinaka Hodge, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2015 Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, directed by Sean San Jose and Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2015 NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato
2016 Babylon is Burning by Felonious, Star Finch and Campo Santo
ALBUM, CD ART, PERIODICALS
1984 "Joe’s Second Record", Pop O Pies, Subterranean Records
1985 "We Care a Lot", Faith No More, Go Records
1986 "Joe’s Third Record", Pop O Pies, Subterranean Records
2009 "Brother Min’s Journey to the West", Denizen Kane, Tree City Music
2009 Koream Magazine, Feature Photos
2009 Africa is a Country Magazine, Featured Photo
2010 San Francisco Chronicle , Feature Photo
2011 Theatre Bay Area Magazine, Cover and Feature Photo
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007 The Jefferson Award for Public Service
2008 San Francisco Arts Commission
Arts and Community Partnership Realization Grant
2009 Prix de la Photographie: Honorable Mention
Bay Area Currents 2009 Juried Exhibit
2010 James Irvine Foundation New Works Fund
Zellerbach Family Foundation (Tree City Legends Visual Design)
ArtSlant Prize/Photography
2011 Zellerbach Family Foundation (red, black and GREEN: a blues)
East Bay Community Foundation MacPhearson Fund for Visual Art
Oakland Innovators Award
Open Circle Foundation
Panta Rhea Foundation
2012 Zellerbach Family Foundation (The River Visual Design)
East Bay Community Foundation
2013 Zellerbach Family Foundation (Alleluia Visual Design)
Rockefeller MAPFund (Califas)
ArtSlant Prize/Photography
2014 Zellerbach Family Foundation
Rockefeller MAPFund (Nogales)
Akonadi Beloved Community Fund (Reflections of Healing)
Theatre Bay Area Awards Best Video Design (Tribes at Berkeley Rep)
Theatre Bay Area Awards Best Production (Tribes at Berkeley Rep)
ArtSlant Prize 2014/Photography
Prix de la Photographie/Bronze Medal for Single Image Press & Book Proposal (Viridaplantae)
2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission (Visual)
San Francisco Arts Commission Organizational Project Grant
Zellerbach Family Foundation
Surdna Foundation Artists Engaged in Social Change Award
2016 New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project
2017 Zellerbach Family Foundation
2018 New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project
National Performance Network
2019 YBCA 100
Cal Shakes Luminary Award for Community Engagement
Rainin Foundation New Project Award
2020 Creative Work Fund
2023. Creative Capital, Rainin Foundation New Works, Los Angeles RAW STAGE Excellence in Video Design & Best Production & Will Glickman Prize Best New Play (The Travelers by Luis Alfaro), Artist Profile/Gardeners of Belonging - Nick James for YBCA
2024 Inaugural Creative Legacy Award, Youth Speaks, Creative West Cultural Sustainability Award Campo Santo
2025. Brave New Voices Legacy Award, Brave New Voices 2025, BNV Executive Producer 2000-2025 Youth Speaks
The Land Remembers, with PODER, and Hummingbird Farm, SF 2026-2027
Pictures from Home, by Sharr White, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Marin Theater Company June 2026
Rashomon by Sean San Jose, Ashley Smiley, directed by Edris Cooper, Creative Team Tanya Orellana, Brittany White, Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, April 2026
Macbeth, adaptation Play On Shakespeare and Campo Santo, The Magic Theatre, February 2026
Try/Step/Trip, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Roberta Uno. Gulan Theatre, New York for Under the Radar, January 5 - February 1, 2026
Jerry Garcia by Richard Montoya, The Magic Theatre, October 2025
Atzlan by Luis Alfaro, directed by Kinan Valdez, Creative Team Tanya Orellana, Alejandro Acosta, Chris Sauceda, Joan Osato, July 2025
the boiling by Sunhui Chang, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, The Magic Theatre, May 2025
Cuckoo Edible Magic by Reed Flores, Directed by Michelle Talagrow [projection design] for SFBATCO, The Magic Theatre, April 2025
Be Like Water by Kat Evasco, Directed by Anna Maria Luera, Brava Theatre, April 2025
Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind by Virginia Grise, The Magic Theatre March 2025.
Richard II, adapted by Naomi Iizuka, Directed by Dr. Karina Gutierrez The Magic Theatre, Aug/September 2024
Garuda’s Wing by Naomi Iizuka, Directed by Margo Hall, The Magic Theatre, June 2024
Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad by Ashley Smiley, Directed by Rayelle Myrick-Hodges, The Magic Theatre, March 2024
Dark Heart by Golda Sargento, Directed by Michelle Talagrow [projection design] for Bindlestiff May 2024
Larry The Musical, Book by Gayle Romasanta. Music by Bryan Pangilinan & Sean Kana.Based on the book “Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong”by Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta, Directed by Billy Bustamante, Brava Theater, March/April 2024
Nothing Micro about Micronesia by Leilani Chan, [principal design[ Teada Productions, Hawai’i, Guam, Saipan 2025
EARTHSEEDS, by the Peoples Kitchen Collective, Statewide California May 10, 2023 - May 19, 2024
Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vanguard Theater, NJ
Prieto by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Sean San Jose, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago IL
Life is Living 16th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 8 - 25, 2023
Travelers by Luis Alaro, Directed by Catherine Castellanos, Los Angeles Theater Center, Los Angeles, CA November 2023
DUGO by Sean San Jose, Rachel Lastimosa, Patricia Ong Baretto, Christopher Sauceda, Ashley Smiley and Joan Osato, Southside Theater, June 24-25, 2023
Josephine’s Feast, by Star Finch, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, The Magic Theatre, June 1 - 25, 2023
Tomorrow's Memories: A Little Manila Diary by Matthew Welch, Directed by Sean San Jose, The Magic Theatre, June 2023
N*Lovers, by Marc Anthony Thompson, The Magic Theatre, May 3 - 25, 2023
Plantation Remix by Cristal Truscott, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville TN March 2 - 3, 2023
Travelers by Luis Alaro, Directed by Catherine Castellanos, The Magic Theatre, Feb 15 - March 12, 2023
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, Wallis Annenberg Center Beverly Hills, CA January 29 - Feb 6, 2023
Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Tanya Orellana and Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, January 2023
Side Effects by Star Finch, Directed by Sean San Jose, The Magic Theatre November 17, 2022
Prieto by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Sean San Jose, MACLA San Jose, CA November 7 - 17, 2022
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, USC Vision and Voices, Los Angeles, CA November, 2022
Life is Living 15th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 8 - 25, 2022
Prieto by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Kat Evasco, Brava San Francisco, CA September 3 - 15, 2022
We The Peoples Before, Directed by Roberta Uno. 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center/25th Anniversary of The First Peoples Fund, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, June 26 - July 1, 2022
25th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, The Kennedy Center’s The Reach, July 19 - 25, 2022
Not My First Pandemic by César Cadabes’ Directed by Kat Evasco, Brava San Francisco CA June, 2022
The National Performance Network Mid Year Conference, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, June 1- 4, 2022
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, University of Manoa, Oahu HI, May 21 - May 30, 2022
Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Tanya Orellana and Joan Osato, The Audium San Francisco May, 2022
Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Sandglass Theater Putney VT, April 5 - 11, 2022
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA March 24-26, 2022
Otto Frank by Roger Guenvere Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA March 11 -27, 2022
Shelter by Bennett Fisher, Directed by Omar Metwally, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA February 25 -26, 2022
Tomorrow's Memories: A Little Manila Diary by Matthew Welch, Directed by Sean San Jose, January - June, 2022
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Utah Presents Salt Lake City, UT, November 19 -20, 2021
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco, USC Los Angeles CA, October 21, 2021
Life is Living 14th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 9 - 11, 2021
Laveau, by Brit Frazier, Directed by Margo Hall, Online Premiere August 21, 2021
24th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, July 2 - 25, 2021
Hotel Angulo by Luis Saguar, Directed by Margo Hall, Online Premiere April 9, 2021
Technical Assistance Program for Oakland Arts, November 9 - December 10th, 2020 (Online virtuals workshop series, 15 sessions for artists and organizations in Oakland, CA)
Rashomon by Sean San Jose Directed by Mina Morita, Postponed.
Life is Living, a community engagement project presenting a new model for partnerships between diverse and under-resourced communities, green action agencies, and the contemporary arts world. Oakland (for the past 13 years), Philadelphia, Chicago, Norfolk July - October 2020 (Online Festival September 10 - October 12, 2020)
Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Joan Osato and Tanya Orellana, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, HI & Crockett Historical Museum, CA. August - October 2020 Exhibition Crockett Museum. (Postponed)
We So Bay/Echoes Weekend, Directed by Sean San Jose featuring Kronos Quartet, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks Poets, Ryse Center, Rising Rhythms, ODC Theater San Francisco, BART from Richmond to 24th Street/Mission Station, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco CA March 7th (3 performances), 2020
Side Effects by Star Finch Directed by Sean San Jose, African American Arts and Culture Complex, San Francisco April 2020 (postponed and produced as a film)
Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, Dance Mission, San Francisco CA February 24-28, 2020
Translating Selena, By Richard Montoya Directed by Sean San Jose, featuring Marga Gomez, Richard Montoya, Brian Rivera, Jordan Don, Yiyo Ornelas and PerSia, Brava Cabaret San Francisco, CA January 29 - February 4, 2020
Moving and Passing, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Amara Tabor Smith, Yaw Agyeman, Tommy Shepherd and Traci Tolmaire, Guggenheim Museum Residency and Community Engagement Project at Queen Lili’oukalani Trust, Maui HI November 6 - 12, 2019
Who Shot La Miguelito, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley CA October 17 - 20, 2019
pehlotah by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael Garces, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului HI, February 26 - March 7 - 14, 2019
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, Victory Gardens Theater, DePaul University August 2018.
21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, July 22 - 26, 2018
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco, October 2018, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, March 2018, Honolulu Theater for Youth, March 2018
Chasing Mehserle, by Chinaka Hodge, Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Hi-Arts, NY February 16 - 28, 2018, he John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington DC March 7 - 8, 2918
People’s Kitchen Collective: STREETS! May 20, 2018
National Asian American Theater Festival in association with Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago IL August 13 - 19, 2018
Black Woman is GOD: Portrait Series , by BWIG Collective, Somarts Cultural Center, San Francisco, cA August 30, 2018.
Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco CA October 2018
Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, March 12 - 18, 2017
Ethos de Masquerade, with Rashad Pridgen and Campo Santo, ACT Strand, August 16 - 27, 2017
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, October 2016
Babylon is Burning, by Campo Santo, World Premiere, ZSpace, January 2016
Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Traci Tolmaire, Dahlak Brathwaite, Michael Wayne Turner, Juliette Jones, Harlem Stage, June 2016
H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars Eventually) by Star Finch, Directed by Sean San Jose, ACT Strand, June 2016
NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Mesa Arts Center, November 2016
/peh-lo-tah/, by Marc Bamuthi Josesph, directed by Michael John Garces, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, October 2016
5th National Asian American Theater Festival and Conference, with CAATA and Oregon Shakespeare Festival September/October 2016
NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Borderlands Theater, September 2016
NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel County (work in progress production) by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, August 2015
The Colored Museum, New Works by Andrew Wilson, ZSpace and Impact Hub Oakland, 2015
The Saga of the Return, by Shannon Matesky (work in progress), Intersection for the Arts, September 2015
red, black and GREEN: a blues, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael John Garces, ZSpace September, 2015
Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, directed by Sean San Jose and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2015
Chasing Mehserle, by Chinaka Hodge, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2014
The River, by Richard Montoya, directed Sean San Jose, 2013
Tree City Legends, by Dennis Kim, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2012
red, black and GREEN: a blues by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael John Garces, 2011
Word Becomes Flesh, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Majestic Theatre, Dallas, TX, 2010
Mirrors in Every Corner, by Chinaka Hodge, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Intersection, 2010
Reflections of Healing, by Brett Cook. A public art project in Oakland, CA 2009 - Present
War Peace: The One Drop Rule, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Project Artaud Theatre, 2009
Mapa Corpo 3, by La Pocha Nostra, directed by Guillermo Gomez Pena, 2009
unbuckled, uncensored, by Regie Cabico, directed by Brian Freeman, 2009
Monday Golden Sun, directed by Jeannie Barroga, Brava Theatre, 2009
Bury Marcos, by Jason Mateo, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2008
Life is Living, Oakland, Houston, Chicago, Harlem, Minneapolis, Washington DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia 2008 - Present
the break/s: a mixtape for stage, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael Garces, 2008
Regarding Women, by Michelle Mush Lee, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2007
Inferno, by Dante directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, 2006
In Spite of Everything, by the Suicide Kings, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2006
Representa! By Paul S. Flores, directed by Danny Hoch, Project Artaud Theatre, 2006
Scourge, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chinaka Hodge, Eli Marienthal, directed by Kamilah Forbes, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005
Fear of a Brown Planet, by Paul S. Flores, Mark Pinate, directed by Tony Garcia, Project Artaud Theatre, 2005
Word Becomes Flesh, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Directed by Deborah Gibson, ODC Theatre 2003
Cause, by Kirya Traber, Emiliano Bourgois-Chacon, Luke Brekke-Miesner, Ise Lyfe and Jason Mateo, Directed by Robert Moses, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2003
The Cure, by Joel Tan and Ginu Kamani, Directed by Joel Tan, Jon Sims Center 2001
Sisters Matsumoto, by Philip Kan Gotanda, Directed by Sharon Ott, Seattle Repertory Theatre 1999 – 2000
Sisters Matsumoto, by Philip Kan Gotanda, Directed by Sharon Ott, San Jose Repertory Theatre, 2000
Bare, by Toa Fraser, Directed by Rena Owen, New Langton Theatre, 1998
The Butcher’s Burden, By Harold S. Byun, Directed by Kelvin Han Yee, 1998 Somarts
The Clouds, The Ocean and Everything In Between, by Michael Premsirat, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, 1997
EXHIBITIONS and VISUAL DESIGN :: INDIVIDUAL ARTIST
1984 "94110" SF CAMERAWORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
2009 “Bay Area Currents 2009”, PROARTS/OAKLAND ART GALLERY, OAKLAND, CA
2009 “Monday Golden Sun”, Photographic Installation, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Box Art Benefit 2009”, PROARTS GALLERY, OAKLAND, CA
2010 “Mirrors in Every Corner”, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue, Solo Exhibition and Installation, Ictus Gallery, San Francisco
2012 “Tree City Legends”, by Dennis Kim, Visual Design, The Living Word Project/Campo Santo
2012 “Reimagine What We Cannot Realize”, Exhibit Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2013 “The River”, by Richard Montoya, Visual Design, Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts
2013 “Future Soul Think Tank, Field of Inquiry” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2013 “Califas” with Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, Calshakes and The Triangle Lab
2013 “Alleluia” by Luis Alfaro, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Visual Design, Campo Santo/Calshakes
2013 “Spiritrials” by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2014 “Tribes” by Nina Raine, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2014 Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue, Solo Exhibit and Installation, OMI Gallery/Impact Hub Oakland
2014 "Chasing Mehserle" by Chinaka Hodge, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2015 Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, directed by Sean San Jose and Marc Bamuthi Joseph
2015 NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato
2016 Babylon is Burning by Felonious, Star Finch and Campo Santo
ALBUM, CD ART, PERIODICALS
1984 "Joe’s Second Record", Pop O Pies, Subterranean Records
1985 "We Care a Lot", Faith No More, Go Records
1986 "Joe’s Third Record", Pop O Pies, Subterranean Records
2009 "Brother Min’s Journey to the West", Denizen Kane, Tree City Music
2009 Koream Magazine, Feature Photos
2009 Africa is a Country Magazine, Featured Photo
2010 San Francisco Chronicle , Feature Photo
2011 Theatre Bay Area Magazine, Cover and Feature Photo
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007 The Jefferson Award for Public Service
2008 San Francisco Arts Commission
Arts and Community Partnership Realization Grant
2009 Prix de la Photographie: Honorable Mention
Bay Area Currents 2009 Juried Exhibit
2010 James Irvine Foundation New Works Fund
Zellerbach Family Foundation (Tree City Legends Visual Design)
ArtSlant Prize/Photography
2011 Zellerbach Family Foundation (red, black and GREEN: a blues)
East Bay Community Foundation MacPhearson Fund for Visual Art
Oakland Innovators Award
Open Circle Foundation
Panta Rhea Foundation
2012 Zellerbach Family Foundation (The River Visual Design)
East Bay Community Foundation
2013 Zellerbach Family Foundation (Alleluia Visual Design)
Rockefeller MAPFund (Califas)
ArtSlant Prize/Photography
2014 Zellerbach Family Foundation
Rockefeller MAPFund (Nogales)
Akonadi Beloved Community Fund (Reflections of Healing)
Theatre Bay Area Awards Best Video Design (Tribes at Berkeley Rep)
Theatre Bay Area Awards Best Production (Tribes at Berkeley Rep)
ArtSlant Prize 2014/Photography
Prix de la Photographie/Bronze Medal for Single Image Press & Book Proposal (Viridaplantae)
2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission (Visual)
San Francisco Arts Commission Organizational Project Grant
Zellerbach Family Foundation
Surdna Foundation Artists Engaged in Social Change Award
2016 New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project
2017 Zellerbach Family Foundation
2018 New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project
National Performance Network
2019 YBCA 100
Cal Shakes Luminary Award for Community Engagement
Rainin Foundation New Project Award
2020 Creative Work Fund
2023. Creative Capital, Rainin Foundation New Works, Los Angeles RAW STAGE Excellence in Video Design & Best Production & Will Glickman Prize Best New Play (The Travelers by Luis Alfaro), Artist Profile/Gardeners of Belonging - Nick James for YBCA
2024 Inaugural Creative Legacy Award, Youth Speaks, Creative West Cultural Sustainability Award Campo Santo
2025. Brave New Voices Legacy Award, Brave New Voices 2025, BNV Executive Producer 2000-2025 Youth Speaks
