ABSTRACT
Louella Dizon was born in the Philippines but grew up in Michigan. She directed her first production (a Grimms fairy tale) and created her first book, So What? (which the local elementary school library included on its shelves) in first grade. She has been involved with performing (acting, directing and composing) and writing (plays, poetry and short fiction) ever since. She graduated from Princeton University in 1989 with a BA, Magna Cum Laude, in English. She wrote, directed, acted in and composed music for her first play, The Color Yellow: Memoirs of an Asian-American, as a senior thesis while at Princeton. It was produced in 1990 at La Mama Etc. and at The Philippine Consulate by Lahi Philippine Performing Company. Till Voices Wake Us was written in the spring of 1991. Louella is currently working on two new plays, The Sweet Sound of Inner Light, which was staged as part of the New Works Now Festival at the Public Theatre and was also part of the 1994 Monday Night Reading Series by the MaYi Theatre Ensemble; and, more recently, The Practical Heart.
