Diana Oh “Zaza D” is an open channel to the art that feels good to their body. They are driven most by mutual care, pleasure, and keeping things heart-centered. Oh is an actor, musician, singer, songwriter, brain massage DJ, and creator of performance, installation, music, concert, documentary film, multimedia unboxable hybrid art, gatherings, ritual, party, and new mediums. Oh also identifies as a clairvoyant (a title passed onto them by their political revolutionist and persecuted South Korean father). Passionate about healing and queering processes, Oh’s work defies easy categorization. The New York Times calls their work “messy-beautiful,” and “[a] blend of compassion, defiance and practicality...with the joyous freedom to be yourself, whatever pronouns you use.” Oh's {my lingerie play} (10 underground performance installations in my lingerie, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, TOW Fellow, Venturous Capital Fellow, NY Times Critics Pick), Infinite Love Party (An Intentional Barefoot Potluck, Dance Party, and Sleepover for QTBiPOC & Their Allies, Bushwick Starr, NY Times Critics Pick), CLAIRVOYANCE (A Concert, Installation & Tree Planting Series celebrating Queer Magic, American Repertory Theatre, Oberon),Asian People are Not Magicians, OH FAMILY CONCERT (Submitted for an Emmy Award by All Arts TV and PBS), The Gift Project (Symphony Space, All for One), My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (developed by The Public Theatre), music, work, and others have been featured on NPR, Mic, SXSW, Sundance, The Huffington Post,People, Vulture, The National, MTV, Korean Broadcast Radio, Ma-Yi Theater Company, All For One, The Bushwick Starr, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, A.R.T./New York Theatres, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and at the White House. Oh is a Two-Time Venturous Capital grant recipient, Sundance Institute Fellow, Tow Playwright in Residence (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Van Lier Fellow in Acting (Asian American Arts Alliance), Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist in Residence, Helen Merrill Playwright Award recipient, Steinberg Playwright Award recipient, an Art Equity Persephone Award recipient, and a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ+ Influencer. Oh is a United Starts Artists Fellow in Theatre and Performance.
Oh currently sows the seeds for A Rare Bird, a choreo-play that they have written and is directing, based on their relationship with tantra, desire, and their yearlong study of epigenetics for which they have won the Venturous Grant for, as they collaborate with visionary healers who wish to intersect personal practice with the realistic, producing capacity of our bodies. Oh also throws ART CHXRCH: a sober intentional binaural beat brain massage dance party for creatives and introverts for which Oh performs their vocal sonic ritualism and DJ's for. To join the Rare Bird/ART CHXRCH Mailing List, click here.
Oh's original work has amassed over 2 Million views online with the mission to queer the world, center migrant identities, and protect human connection and vulnerability by whatever means necessary. Oh calls Tantric Queer Porn into their near future.
Oh also appears in Film and TV in How to Be Single with Dakota Johnson, New York is Dead which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival that also stars Ana Gasteyer, the Global Cult series Queering with a 2.5 million viewership, and Glamour's Favorite Unicornland. Oh stars as Jamie on one of the highest-rated Sci-Fi Podcasts Give Me Away. You can receive Oh's Underground Newsletter via theirPatreon.