Rowena Richie's work draws from her eclectic background in modern dance, improvisation, music, drawing, and writing. Her production, Lost and Found in the Mission, presented a cross-section of humanity as defined by handwritten scraps of paper she and co-creator Susie Hara found on the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District, where Rowena has lived since 2001. Lost and Found won Best Ensemble Performance at the 2008 SF Fringe Festival. Rowena has worked with the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project for the past 15 years. In 2011, under the direction of Chong Shuch, Rowena was featured as Bride Love in Act 3 of Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge at the Magic Theater. The San Francisco Chronicle referred to Act 3 as, “...an exhaustingly energetic dance battle,” and the San Francisco Examiner gave Rowena’s performance a “shoutout” for her “display of talent...as a bridezilla.” In 2010 Rowena co-founded richien with Jennifer Chien as an outlet for their cerebral-dorky interests. richien was awarded an Artists in Residence Commission at CounterPulse where they presented Twindependent. They are currently working on Longing Four…, a dance theater critique of consumerism. Rowena teaches Body Dynamics through the Older Adults Department for City College of San Francisco.