Donna Ayako Tsufura is a filmmaker, playwright and inveterate traveler who has gotten lost in over 30 countries around the world. “Death and Peanuts,” her short experimental film about grief and the psyche, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Other shorts include “A Tale From Fort Tryon Park” (broadcast on WNYC-TV) and “The Rose Thief” (in post production). Her play “Origami” was produced by Northwest Asian American Theatre in Seattle. Donna has been a staff member of the Sundance Institute’s Filmmakers Lab, Playwrights Lab and Theater Lab. She is currently developing “MacKenzie’s Cafe,” a dramatic comedy feature about a young Asian American woman who goes after her dreams, and a short, “The Wedding Dance,” the tale of a homophobic father’s acceptance of his son.
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