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Michelle Krusiec, Virginia Tech class of 1996, has acted in films and television, including "Grey's Anatomy."

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Krusiec in a scene from her one-woman act, "Made in Taiwan." The show focuses on her memories and relationships in her Taiwanese family.

Actress Michelle Krusiec is getting back to her college roots.

Krusiec will perform her one-woman show, "Made In Taiwan," today, Saturday and Sunday during the grand opening celebration of Virginia Tech's Theatre 101, an academic and performance space for the Department of Theatre and Cinema.

She began writing the show as part of a literary criticism class as an undergraduate majoring in theater and English at Tech.

It later became her honors thesis and an acting piece when she moved to Los Angeles after graduating in 1996.

The show focuses on Krusiec's memories and relationships with her Taiwanese family.

But she declined to give too much away about the plot, saying, "I want people to enjoy the mystery. ... The less they know the better.

"I think that the piece is kind of coming back full circle because it started there and I'm performing it years later and looking at my experiences during that time at Virginia Tech and Blacksburg," she said.

"It's kind of a like a homecoming experience because I'll have all my professors watching me, and it's a big alumni weekend" for the theater department.

The show is a blend of comedy and darker moments, a variance Krusiec said she likes in her roles.

She has acted in film, television and theater, from "Nanking," a 2007 drama about the 1937 rape and massacre of Nanking, China, by the Japanese, to the 2003 comedy "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry met Lloyd." She's also been on TV's "Grey's Anatomy."

After her performance at Tech, Krusiec said she plans to take some time off.

She has several films coming out, including the Mandarin-language movie "Boom Hunting," English-language movies "Take Me Home," "Homewrecker" and "Shuffle" and a role on the TV show "Secret Life of the American Teenager."

"It was a pretty good summer, and I was pretty busy the past couple of months, so I wanted to have a break," Krusiec said. "But I like to work, so I probably won't take too much time off."

Having an alumna perform a piece with Tech roots is an exciting part of the opening, said Patty Raun, chairwoman of the department of theater arts and director of the School of Performing Arts and Cinema.

The theater is an 8,500-square-foot space used for both academic classes and performances. It's also the first LEED-certified -- or "green" -- building on campus.

Classes have been held in the building since August, but the grand opening is the building's introduction to the community, Raun said.

"It's an opportunity for the community to understand what we do in theater and cinema and to see what's been accomplished and what is to come," she said.