Deanna H. Choi is a Korean-Canadian theatre artist who composes music and designs “sonic environments for stage, screen, and multimedia” according to the biography on her publisher’s website. Choi is a former classical violinist and scholar of behavioural neuroscience. Choi was born in Regina, grew up in Kingston and now is based in Toronto. The cabaret she co-developed and performed with Maddie Bautista, Love You Wrong Time, won two Dora Mavor Moore awards.
Drama
Love You Wrong Time
Maddie Bautista, Deanna H. Choi with Erin Brubacher.
Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2026.
forthcoming Feb. 2026.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Love You Wrong Time is an uproarious, raunchy, and radically joyful song cycle from your new favourite Korean and Filipina–Vietnamese musical duo. Part cabaret, part game show, part stand-up, and all heart, this flamboyant musical comedy follows two friends looking for love while navigating yellow fever, cultural stereotypes, and the fetishization of Asian femmes.
Blending biting satire with virtuosic spectacle, the show leaps across genres—from K-pop to country to Gaga-style anthems—while inviting audiences to play for prizes in “ricebreakers” and re-enactments. The book includes original sheet music as well as behind-the-scenes insights into the show’s evolving creative process. Disrupting the subservient “model minority” myth, Love You Wrong Time is a battle cry for Asians ready to make a riot, creating a space for reclamation and resistance. It’s a good time with teeth.