Actor. Multi-hyphenated Artist, dreamer, doer, and flaneur.
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2025
Directing: Japantown Returnings
May 31st, 2pm + 6pm, 2025
Japantown San Jose, CA - I'm honored to be taking part in this event as a director! The Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj), Wesley United Methodist Church, and Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (CATS) proudly present the world premiere of Japantown Returnings, an original theatrical staged reading with live musical accompaniment, commemorating 135 years of San Jose Japantown. I'm most excited to be helping shape the story as a tribute to honor the history that's taken place here in San Jose. And by history, I mean the resiliency of the people who helped nurture and build it to what it is now. Visit the event page to learn more about the program and to RSVP. I hope to see you there.
Designer: Happy Pleasant
Valley:
A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical
June 1st-29th, 2025
Center Repertory Theatre, CA - A senior sex scandal murder mystery MUSICAL - OH MY! This world premiere is a co-production with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. The show closed at TheatreWorks last month but will find its second opening at CenterRep in June. It's super fun! And it also happens to be the first time I'm part of a production as a designer. In this case, I'm the projections content creator. You'll be able to see my work as an illustrator and graphic designer during the show; I'm proud to be supporting the story through my skills as a digital artist. It's got a stellar cast. Don't believe me? Click on the link below!
Public Reading: From Above
April 17th, 2025
Arts Search Center, UC Berkeley, CA - Developmental staged readings are one of my favorite ways to participate in the performing arts field, and this one is a doozy! Drew Woodson's "FROM ABOVE" is a pretty wild ride and I'm honored to be a part of it. Read more by clicking the event link below. The programs are featured in collaboration with Alternative Theater Ensemble’s Indigenous Performing Arts Residency, a collaborative initiative piloted by Berkeley’s Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
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ART TIME JOB is a real-talk podcast hosted by two Bay Area artists, Tasi Alabastro and Davied Morales, navigating the ups, downs, and sideways hustle of making a living through creativity. From professional gigs to side hustles, passion projects to burnout, they dive deep into the unfiltered realities of surviving—and thriving—as working artists. Join them each week on YouTube for a visual ad for all those episodes. Or listening to the whole season for honest conversations and behind-the-scenes stories that shine a light on what it really takes to turn art into a job. You can follow them everywhere @arttimejobpodcast
Multiverse of Gladness
TASI ALABASTRO is an Asian Pacific Islander and award-winning artist residing in California. Of the many things he believes in, he believes boredom is an essential part of the creative process and is always looking to explore that topic. He holds a special place in his heart for helping people bridge the gap between their ideas and execution; better 'done' than 'perfect' fuels his waking hours. He’s comfortable on-stage, on-camera, behind the camera, and wherever he might fit. That being said, he's also gained some weight during the Pandemic and tangentially learned which pants are better for work. Answer: None.
Recipient of the Silicon Valley Emerging Artist Laureate (2018) and the Leigh Weimer’s Emerging Artist Award (2019), Tasi has also been featured in the Silicon Valley Arts & Culture Magazine, CONTENT, and is a proud alumnus of the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute (MALI). His work with Red Ladder Theatre Company involves facilitating workshops with marginalized communities; this includes incarcerated men and women in California Correction Facilities, Children on the spectrum, and homeless and runaway youth, all of which have been featured on KQED and Theatre Bay Area Magazine.
Tasi has also enjoyed the heck out of making content on Youtube, Twitch, and various social media platforms. His content and community can be described as goofy warm, casual, and oft-surprisingly insightful.
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![✨ Up next - a family friendly Word for Word experience! Rehearsing this week for a Saturday performance. Delighted to be working with this team! Have you read this book?
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Now introducing the cast of our inaugural Story Pop!, featuring select stories from THE EYES AND THE IMPOSSIBLE by Dave Eggers!
📅 Saturday, May 10 at 2pm
📍 Z Space
🎟️ Free reservations [link in bio]: zspace.org/wfwplaystorypop
Word for WordPLAY Story Pop! is just like our beloved “grown-up” Off the Page series—only for the whole family! Featuring a full cast of Word for Word actors, these staged readings will bring children’s stories vividly to life with the familiar imaginative, evocative style of Word for Word, and give us our first theatrical exploration of the story. Kids and their grown-ups alike will get to see the story leaping off the page!
Directed by Delia MacDougall, with a cast of local actors.
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