GRANDMA'S MILLION DOLLAR SCHEME: A COMEDY DRAMA

Grandma's Million Dollar Scheme: A Comedy-Drama

Grandma’s Million Dollar Scheme is a Comedy-Drama, solo performance based on a story about race, class, greed, and our criminal justice system which has so many loopholes for white-collar criminals who actually never end up doing time.

I draw on my interactions with my students at the local jail, and my experiences as a spiritual teacher there, and on my own journey as a get-rich-quick-scheme real estate agent in my late twenties in San Francisco who falls victim to a grandma who has a million-dollar get-rich-quick scheme of her own.
My intention in this performance is to humanize and raise awareness around the challenges we all face (being rich, poor, black, white, etc.), around greed, marginalization, and class, as well as to create a deeper empathy and understanding for the pain and suffering of many members of our society (which can also include ourselves) who have slipped and fallen through the cracks and often end up in jail, or various kinds of prisons of our own making.

I use my solo performances as a journalistic vehicle to engage my audience through deep study, observation, interview, listening, empathy, and transparency, and based on my own life experiences as an immigrant, I seek out relevant situations and stories that are currently impacting us and our society, focusing on inequity, greed, mindless consumerism, poverty, and racism. Through deep study, observation, interview, listening, empathy, and transparency, and based on my own life experiences as an immigrant, I seek out relevant situations and stories that are currently impacting us and our society, focusing on inequity, greed, mindless consumerism, poverty, and racism.

My intention is for audience members are to have an authentic and lasting experience that will mobilize them to also be catalysts for change on the planet through their own unique ways, voices, and action.

I have been issued a special recognition certificate by the U.S Congress and California State Legislature for my work as a leader of change.