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"You too can use your UCLA English Degree to think up synonyms for 'schlong' and 'humping'."
2008-04-04 2:19AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
Holy Smokeroos! I just got into Amherst, MA last night where I'm hosting this conference showcase. I'm jumping up and down because I got this email...
Dear Kristina,
The year after you graduated from UCLA, the English department began a tradition of inviting one of our alumni to give a commencement address. For 2008, we would very much like you to be that person! Our department commencement is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 15th (Father’s Day) at 12:30pm in Pauley Pavilion. The event will last approximately 2 hours, and we are asking you to prepare a 10-minute speech to the graduating students on the topic of how your undergraduate education in English has been helpful and relevant to you in your years since graduating. Of course, you are welcome to make your address as serious or as entertaining as you would like! And we would be happy to accommodate any guests (friends or family members) you might like to invite as well. We realize your schedule for June may already be full, but we fervently hope you will be able to join us and contribute to the joy of the day for our graduating majors. Please let me know if you’ll be able to participate at your earliest convenience, and also if there is anything we can do to facilitate your being able to participate, please let me know!
Sincerely,
Janel Munguia
Undergraduate Advisor
UCLA Department of English
This is so validating! Especially since I was such a crappy and scatterbrained English major when I was there. I am not sure if I can do it or will have to take a raincheck (supposed to be in Florida for six weeks for a residency and need to see if they can fly me and if I can get away for a couple days). They said they would take a rain check for 2009 if they cannot fly me in this time around.
I also think it makes sense that this invite came when it did. I'm really wanting to change my life more and more to live by example and be a better role model. To live with more hope and vision like Obama says we must. (But please, I'm not perfect, so forgive me as I make mistakes along the way. And I will.)
I think the universe sent me this invite because I was buzzing from a great week in San Antonio and found myself writing in my journal, "I am so lucky to be Kristina Wong." I am so so lucky!
I really am happy to be who I am right now. Thank you universe!
"....Esteemed Class of 2008, now that I've told you how much money I actually make, and how I've managed to humiliate myself and my family for a living, let's spend the next 9 minutes watching this clip from 'The Secret'!"
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Where the hell are you Kristina?
2008-11-23 2:21AM
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Yes, we did.
2008-11-06 2:27AM (2 個評論)
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And now.... The wait....
2008-11-05 12:34AM (3 個評論)
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It's like a test but there are no grades...
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统计信息
- Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Described by the East Bay Express as "brutal but hilarious.....Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Described by the East Bay Express as "brutal but hilarious... a woman who takes life's absurdities very seriously," her body of performance work includes short and full-length solo performance works, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations, and plays and sketch comedy. She was awarded the Creative Capital Award in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to create her third full length solo show, "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" exploring the remarkably high incidence of mental illness among Asian American women in a world that’s more nuts than we are. Cuckoo's Nest has shown in dozens of cities in spaces that include the Kirk Theater in New York City, the Painted Bride in Phildaelphia, La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley and numerous universities around the country. Kristina was recently selected to write and perform in the 2008 CBS Multicultural Comedy Showcase. Her show "Free?" was also featured earlier this year at the South Beach Comedy Festival in Miami. She is also completing a novel started with the PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. She is also a freelance contributor to anthologies and magazines that include Playgirl Magazine. Her spoof mail order bride website is www.bigbadchinesemama.com.
Past Performance Highlights-- Partial list
South Beach Comedy Festival, Miami, FL
NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival at the Public Theater
Bay Area Hip Hop Theater Festival
Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
National Asian American Theater Festival, New York City
TeAda New Works Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Off-Centre, Austin, TX
Jumpstart Performance Company, San Antonio, TX
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Mark Taper Forum at the Ivy Substation, Los Angeles
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan State University, East Lansing
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
The Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, CA
University of Virginia at Charlottesville (ECAASU)
La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
Asia Society, San Francisco
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Single File Festival, Chicago, IL
DeAnza College Cupertino, CA
University of Florida, Gainesille
National Asian American Students Conference at USC, Los Angeles
The Fake Gallery, Hollywood
Wet Daddy Literary Festival, Altadena, CA
Split ID Space, Hollywood, CA
David Henry Hwang Theater, Los Angeles
University of Texas, Austin
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Wellesley College, MA
University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
DePaul University, Chicago
New Chinatown Barber Shop Gallery, Los Angeles
SOMARTS, San Francisco
UC San Diego
Guest Lectures/ Demonstrations/ Keynotes/ Panels
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan State University, East Lansing
University of Illinois, Chicago
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Mercy High School, San Francisco
St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
University of Southern California
California Polytechnic University, Pomona
San Francisco State University
Los Angeles City College; University of California, Irvine
University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
Wellesley College, MA
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
California State University, Northridge
University of California, Santa Barbara
Asia Society, San Francisco
SOMARTS, San Francisco
California State University, Fullerton
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Awards and Recognitions
Creative Capital Award in Theater
Creation Fund from the National Performance Network
NEA Grant- Artist in “Community Action Series” La Pena Cultural Center
DBD Scholarship, Rachel Rosenthal Company
American Delegate, Korea Multi-Cultural Leadership Program
Davis-Putter O'Connor Scholar Award
Durfee Artist Resource for Completion Grant
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Artist in Residence Grant
Rosenthal PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship
TeAda New Works Development Lab, Selected Core Artist
15 Minutes of Fem, Winner "Best of-- Night"
Poets and Writers' Grant
Visual Communications' "Armed with A Camera" Fellowship
Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theater Workshop Performance Commission
Guest-in-Residence, Unit One Allen Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
UCLA HOTHOUSE Program: A Residency for the Creation of New Work
East West Players Conservatory Scholarship
Finalist, San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards
Jean Irwin Dance Memorial Scholarship
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