script for a rare bird: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14TiQhTVpGf_FGZXXJoRFwMq2eHp0JQwKB30XlPKjf-c/edit?usp=drivesdk
Hi, I'm Diana Oh. I describe myself as an open channel to the Art that feels good to my body driven most by pleasure, mutual care, and keeping things heart-centered. I'm a multi-disciplinary artist whose work transcends traditional boundaries, blending performance, music, and ritual to create transformative experiences. My creations are deeply rooted in themes of celebration and empowerment, particularly for marginalized groups. I am also an Actor, Singer-Songwriter, and Musician.
Among my most notable works is {my lingerie play} (New York Times Critics Pick), a series of ten underground performance installations where I, dressed in lingerie, used public spaces to confront issues of violence and reclaim agency. The New York Times described it as “a glitter bomb of feminist and queer protest that feels just right for this cultural moment” .
The Infinite Love Party (New York Times Critics Pick), was my favorite thing I've ever gotten to make. It was a wedding for the world. An intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) and their allies, fostering connection and celebration. Similarly, CLAIRVOYANCE, a residency at the American Repertory Theater, culminated in a series of installations and a concert that centered queer magic and community healing. The Gift Project was presented on April 9 and 10, 2022 at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in New York City. The project involved creating original music inspired by interviews with elders born in 1956 or earlier, who had overcome significant challenges. Each elder received a personalized song as a gift, combining their stories with live music and documentary footage in a performance that celebrated their lives.
My accolades include being named a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer, a USA Fellow in Theatre and Performance, A Williamstown Theatre Festival Playwright-in-Residence and a Sundance Institute Fellow. I have also received the Helen Merrill Award and the Steinberg Playwright Award.
I currently sow the seeds for A Rare Bird, a choreo-play that I have written and I am directing, based on my relationship with tantra, desire, and my yearlong study of epigenetics for which I have won the Venturous Grant for. I wish to collaborate with healers who wish to intersect personal practice with the realistic, producing capacity of our bodies.
I also throw ART CHXRCH (MY FAVORITE!!!): a sober intentional binaural beat brain massage dance party for creatives and introverts for which I perform my vocal sonic ritualism and DJ for. To join the Rare Bird/ART CHXRCH Mailing List, click here.
Among my most notable works is {my lingerie play} (New York Times Critics Pick), a series of ten underground performance installations where I, dressed in lingerie, used public spaces to confront issues of violence and reclaim agency. The New York Times described it as “a glitter bomb of feminist and queer protest that feels just right for this cultural moment” .
The Infinite Love Party (New York Times Critics Pick), was my favorite thing I've ever gotten to make. It was a wedding for the world. An intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) and their allies, fostering connection and celebration. Similarly, CLAIRVOYANCE, a residency at the American Repertory Theater, culminated in a series of installations and a concert that centered queer magic and community healing. The Gift Project was presented on April 9 and 10, 2022 at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in New York City. The project involved creating original music inspired by interviews with elders born in 1956 or earlier, who had overcome significant challenges. Each elder received a personalized song as a gift, combining their stories with live music and documentary footage in a performance that celebrated their lives.
My accolades include being named a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer, a USA Fellow in Theatre and Performance, A Williamstown Theatre Festival Playwright-in-Residence and a Sundance Institute Fellow. I have also received the Helen Merrill Award and the Steinberg Playwright Award.
I currently sow the seeds for A Rare Bird, a choreo-play that I have written and I am directing, based on my relationship with tantra, desire, and my yearlong study of epigenetics for which I have won the Venturous Grant for. I wish to collaborate with healers who wish to intersect personal practice with the realistic, producing capacity of our bodies.
I also throw ART CHXRCH (MY FAVORITE!!!): a sober intentional binaural beat brain massage dance party for creatives and introverts for which I perform my vocal sonic ritualism and DJ for. To join the Rare Bird/ART CHXRCH Mailing List, click here.
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...” - The New York Times for Infinite Love Party covered by Laura Collin Hughes
CLAIRVOYANCE
{my lingerie play}
{my lingerie play} Installation 4: YOU CAME FROM HERE
Live Performance
Documentary Film
Dance Party
Installation
Gathering
Music
Acting
SOUL TENDING
& SONIC EMPATHY
Diana Oh (they/them) is an open channel to the Art (music, acting, installation) that feels good to their body driven most by pleasure, mutual care, and keeping things heart-centered.
They reparent Creative Wounds and Soul Liberation is at the Very Core of Their Calling.
Oh is a Two-Time Venturous Capital grant Recipient, Two-Time New York Times Critic Pick with {my lingerie play} and The Infinite Love Party, a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 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's Projects Include:
{my lingerie play}:
(10 underground performance installations in my lingerie with 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)
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)
Oh's 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.
photo by Maria Baranova of Diana Oh's Infinite Love Party at Bushwick Starr
“My brain is still radiating from the experience of your music yesterday."
This is such a gift. Listening on repeat."
- Emily K
"Secondly, thank you so so much for massaging my brain, soul, and all my metaphysical bits last night with your powerful sound waves. It was transcendent and damn did I really, really need it. Ever since the election I've felt so lost in my own country, lost in my city, lost in myself. Me reaching out to Jessica in the first place was me shooting up a flare to find and connect with community."
-Stephen D
"Oh my GoOOODODOD Brain mAsssaAge music For Goats and DOgs so Brillianttttttttt."
- Francisco R.
Photo by Alan Trong. Diana Oh - (aka Zaza) at Punk Monk Art Chirch: A Binaural Beat Brain Massage Shamanic Dance Rager created and dj'ed by Oh
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 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 their Patreon.
Diana Oh's Music is Streaming Everywhere.
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