About

Kiki (she, they, we) is an internationally produced, award-winning theatre artist, educator, and arts activist with her BA in Theatre and MFA in Playwriting from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). Original plays include Puzzy (featuring award-winning New Zealand Playwright Victor Rodger), and Faʻalavelave: The Interruption. 

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Their work appears in the anthologies: Samoan Queer Lives, Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crises.

Residencies

Resident Playwright and Panelist at Breaking Ground:  Indigenous Playwright’s Festival in Wellington, NZ — June 2019

Pasifika Transmissions at Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM), Long Beach, CA — Sept. 2020

Lecturer

Fall 2016-Present

Center of Pacific Island Studies Dept., PACS 303: Thinking through Pacific Art, Ritual, and Performance, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Spring 2019

Filling the Void: Creating Playing Space for Today’s Pacific Islander Brown Bag Biography Series, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Center for Biographical Research, Apr. 19, 2018

Lecture/Guest Artist/Director University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo-Dept. Of English, Oct. 21-27, 2016

Teaching Artist

January 2008-Present

Workshop Facilitator

2016-Present

Writing for the Pacific Theatre. Words@Mānoa/Hawaiʻi Review Writing Conference, Oct. 19, 2019

Moving Through Words: Finding the Story in Our Body, Words@Manoa/Hawai’i Review Writing Conference, Nov. 18, 2017

Voice Over Talent

2010-Present

Gray Television Group Inc. 

Vein at Kakaʻako, Radio ad, 2019

Waikiki Health, Radio ad,  2019

Segway Hawaii, 2017

Queen Kapiʻolani, 2018

Hawaii Public Radio

Aloha Shorts, Voice Actor/Storyteller, 2009-2012, 2018 

Hawaii Dept. of Education/ PBS Hawaii

Ranching in Hawaiʻi, Narration, 2017

Hawaii News Now

Chaiʻs Island Bistro, Radio/television ad, 2017

Caring Across Generations, Radio ad, 2017

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Articles

March 2019