ABSTRACT
Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian, and writer who has created five solo shows and one ensemble play that have toured throughout the United States, Canada, and the UK. Her most notable touring show – Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest looked at the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women and toured countless performing art centers and universities. It’s now a broadcast quality film distributed by Cinema Libre Studios. She’s been a commentator for American Public Media’s Marketplace, PBS, Jezebel, xoJane, Playgirl Magazine, Huffington Post, and a guest on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Al Jazeera’s The Stream, and AM Tonight on Fusion TV. Her work has been awarded grants from Creative Capital, the MAP Fund, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Durfee Foundation, the National Performance Network, five Artist-in-Residence grants from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Montalvo, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Hermitage. Kristina has twice given the commencement speech at UCLA, her alma mater. On television, she’s been on General Hospital, Nickelodeon’s Nicky Ricky Dicky and Dawn, and Myx TV’s I’m Asian American and Want Reparations for Yellow Fever. More information is available at https://www.kristinawong.com">www.kristinawong.com.
