Maarit Hara

Stacy Junko Hayashi

I wish I would have known her better. I watched her from a distance. I admired her profoundly. At times I even envied her. She was a few months older than me but I often felt our age gap was bigger because she carried herself so fearlessly. We came from different parts of the world. She was a Japanese girl from LA and I was a Finnish girl who had moved to New York from Helsinki. Our paths crossed in September 2017 at 520 8th Avenue through our mutual love and adoration of improvisational theatre (where everything is made up on the spot) .