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2008-05-08 3:31AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看

Yet another photo that will keep me single for a long time...
Well, I've been spit out of a busy week. I'm happy to be back in LA. Sad to hear about Myanmar. And fighting off headaches that I get when I think about the "Austrian Incest Dad" case. Blech. But Obama is looking up and I've just mounted a big poster of him on foam core for my kitchen.
This weekend was really nuts.
On Saturday, I was performing as Fannie and Officer Macgillawongster on the Xin Lu Bus Tour (Ming Ma's Film Fest on wheels). The bus dropped us off at the DGA right when the Q&A for the sold out "Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown" documentary finished up.
Mind you, I have NOT seen the documentary yet. So there's no stranger experience than showing up AFTER a documentary screening where several years of your life have been edited by someone else and viewed by the public before you've seen it. Sure, I LIVED what they saw. But I am not sure exactly sure WHAT they saw.
It was unreal. Strangers were coming up to me, all wide eyed, like they had known me forever saying things like...
"Thank you so much for your honesty."
"Your story is incredible. Thank you."
"It was a great balance to have you in there."
"It's so great... about that grant." (You mean the one I got TWO years ago?)
And the kicker response.
"So... everything's ok now right Kristina? You are doing ok?"
And I'm like freaking out screaming, "Honest? What do you mean HONEST?!! And what 'story' did you all see??! And of course I'm ok! I'm doing great!"
Even friends who had known me forever are coming up to me with this love in their eyes. Like suddenly I've become more human to them.
"Oh, Kristina. That was amazing... You came off really well in it."
Why wouldn't I have come off well?!?!!
I am still freaked out to watch it. But from what I've heard, I am already getting a picture of what "story" everyone saw in the doc. And I seem to be pretty fun to watch. My folks also are interviewed in it and are apparently very funny down to earth seeming. So I am not sure what kind of editing magic Daisy did, but....
What's funny is that the current Miss Chinatown Court was there and instead of being all annoyed and confused by me as they have been in the past, they were all excited, "Oh hi!! Can we take a picture with you Kristina?!"
Ha! And one of the coordinators of the pageant who I've run into many time during my "crashings" gave me his card and we were on IM this morning and he sent me these pictures he took from after the screening. It was pretty funny. He was like, "Yeah, I remember the Chinese Chamber of Commerce were really upset with you." And I was like, "Yeah, but now you guys love me!"
People have seen me and I haven't met them or seen what they have seen of me.
It's all so post modern.
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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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