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Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, activist, and filmmaker born and raised in San Francisco and living in Los Angeles. The East Bay Express describes her as “Brutal but hilarious… a woman who takes life’s absurdities very seriously.” Noted for her quirky, culture-jamming, and subversive tactics, Kristina takes an offbeat artistic approach to activism that upstages the strangeness of our times. Kristina recently received the Creative Capital Grant in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to develop 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 more nuts than we are. The show premieres this December as part of La Pena Cultural Center’s “Community Action Series” in Berkeley, funded in part from the NEA. Her first solo show, "Miss Chinatown 2nd Runner Up" was commissioned by the TeAda New Works Festival and was an LA Times "Best Bet.” She is also completing a novel started with the PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her spoof mail order bride website is www.bigbadchinesemama.com. www.bigbadchinesemama.com. |
Her work has garnered press from outlets that include The Village Voice, East Bay Express, LA Weekly, SF Examiner, PBS Bookshow, CHUM TV on Canadian Network Television, BUST, Ms. Magazine, Bitch Magazine, the International Channel, and an upcoming PBS/ NAATA funded documentary by Daisy Lin Shapiro.
Other grants and awards include the Durfee ARC grant, a mini-commission from the Mark Taper Forum’s Asian Theater Workshop, an O’Connor Scholar Award from the Davis Putter Foundation, a DBD scholarship from the Rachel Rosenthal Company, and a Hothouse Residency from UCLA.
www.kristinasherylwong.com
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