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Libretto commissioned by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation through a SHIFT — Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Award. The music for Lili‘u is co-commissioned by New Native Theatre, Rhiana Yazzie, Artistic Director, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. The Dance Suite for Lili‘u was premiered with support from Creative Capital Foundation.

The development of Liliʻu is supported in part by OPERA America Women Composers: Discovery Grants program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation; the Western Arts Alliance Advancing Indigenous Performance Native Launchpad program with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement and Kamehameha Schools through the E OLA (Empowering ʻŌiwi Leadership Award) program; the Atherton Family Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional residency support for creation and development of the work provided by the American Composers Forum through the 2021 McKnight Visiting Composer Program, Marble House Project, the Macgeorge Bequest, the Merwin Conservancy, the School for Advanced Research (SAR, Santa Fe, New Mexico), and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program.