Liminality
I consider myself liminal in many ways. I am half-Chinese, half-white, half-Catholic, and half-Jewish. I grew up splitting my time between ice hockey rinks and school theater stages.
For much of my life, I experienced these identities as liminal states, being in-between spaces, where I was either too much or not enough, never fully belonging to one room or another.
Over time, I came to understand liminality not as a decision to be made or a problem to solve, but as a way of moving through the world. Living in these thresholds has taught me to embrace complexity, and to hold, not resolve, the multitudes that I contain.
As an actor and director, I have also come to understand the stories I tell through the lens of liminal spaces, exploring the complexity that exists within the thresholds between states of being.
Thesis in Theater
As part of my senior thesis as a theater major at Wesleyan, I performed as Reverend Hale in The Crucible, supported by original academic research. The project was awarded honors by the theater faculty. Read the written component below, titled Centering the Supporting Character: Potency and Primacy of the Tritagonist in Tragedy. Liminality is essential to my examination of the tritagonist, a character positioned between competing moral truths who reveals the complexity of tragic conflict and creates the possibility for dialogue and change.
