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Nose picking, straight pimping.
2008-06-02 1:35AM / / / 會員可以看
I haven't blogged in forever. I started a blog about how weddings are dumb and then saved it as a draft, only to have a massive fall off my bike the next day (I'm ok, but I'm massively bruised up). Then I spent the whole week trying to write this grant which I finally finished last night. That grant was no joke. I easily had 10 drafts of it before I finally gave up and decided it was done. Folks who think it's easy to get someone else to give you money to do art are seriously deluded. If I get this grant, I get $0 after I pay out all the things I budgeted.
My big showcase is tomorrow and I am still not totally memorized. I was all freaked out about it... to the point that I wasn't even sure if I could still go through with it (because it's still a new format for me and I was just so unsure of myself). I actually had a moment where I considered quitting... which is crazy... because I'm not a quitter.
My good friend, the famous playwright Alice Tuan said something great of this panel we are doing next week in Minneapolis called "APACUNT." It's a really outrageous fake, but real panel we're orchestrating that sends up a lot of "panelism"-- if you've gone to enough conferences, you may know what I am talking about. We're probably going to be the total blacksheep of the Asian American theater world (you know, and it's SUCH a big world that Asian American Theater World), after the antics (such as me pulling out a dong from my undies and stroking it as I read my bio) we have planned.
She said, "What's the worst that can happen, the folks who aren't producing my plays, still don't produce my plays?"
And I was like... "Oh my god! Yeah! What's the worst that could happen after this showcase? The career I don't have in Hollywood still doesn't go anywhere and I must then continue making an amazing living as a world touring performance artist? Boo hoo!"
So I am just going to put it all out there tomorrow. Have a fun time. Make mistakes, still pick myself up and keep going. It'll be a 35 minute version of my life.
LIST: You know you are a performance artist when...
1. You can't go out for martinis with friends on Friday night because you absolutely have to watch a man crawl around in an alleyway with a lit candle in his anus for three hours. (After all, he's your best friend.)
2. Thoughts of how to make your unitard battery powered keep you sleepless.
3. You have phone conversations that end like this: "I gotta get back to sewing my vagina. I'll talk to you later."
4. You roll your eyes when someone tells you about a gallery performance where a guy covered himself in flour and shat into a clear bucket for everyone to see. ("Oh please. That's sooooooooooo been done before.")
5. You are thinking of being a lesbian for a month and already know what grant you are going to apply for to support it.
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- 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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