I am a theatre practitioner. I am a vocalist. I am a director, an actor, a someone who seeks out ensemble-based practices, values long-form processes, and necessitates the development of a vocal practice. My guiding force is the question: "Where I Come From?" This force goes from question to statement... back and forth and back and forth and back again only to go back forth. As a theatre maker, I keep running to the theme of ‘the other self on the other side.’ I want to be over there, but in searching for something new, I find myself in the same place I started. It’s as if I look over to that other island, only to see myself waving back at me. Between selves, between islands is where my work begins. Those common questions arrive, like the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ and so, I answer them dutifully. I sing to invite myself to be led elsewhere and connect to a past that is not just mine, but a history of many. I write to reconcile the shade and the sun, using darkness to fill in the gaps. I collaborate, in a constant search for those who also feel the tug to be elsewhere. I am joyfully living in the frustration of that tug and I am in need of a call. A shout out to the rhythm makers. A grito to the artist that never really heard themself sing. I call to you, looking for what we could discover with each other through the use of storytelling’s melody.