Kristina Wong Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Kristina Wong

Kristina Wong is a solo performer, actor, educator, activist and filmmaker. Her first work, Miss Chinatown 2nd Runner Up, was commissioned by the TeAda Works New Works Festival. She has been awarded a Durfee Foundation Artists’ Resource for Completion grant, an Artist-in-Residence grant from the City of Los Angeles, the Rosenthal PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a commission from Los Angeles’s Mark Taper Forum. She is published in the HarperCollins’ Yell-oh Girls Anthology, Northeastern University Press’s Catching A Wave anthology, and Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV.

http://www.kristinawong.com, http://www.wongflew.com,


Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2013

    Residency

    Wong is an artist-in-residence at York University in Toronto. She is developing The Wong Street Journal with their grad students

  • 2013

    Major Exhibition

     Wong’s Going Green the Wong Way tours Europe, visiting Contact Theater in Manchester, UK, and BGWMC in London

  • 2010

    Award

    Wong receives Creation Fund Award from National Performance Network

  • 2009

    Residency

    Wong receives McDowell Colony residency

  • 2008

    Grant

    Wong receives MAPFUND grant to develop a new work

  • 2007

    Award

    Wong receives, for her third time, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist-in-Residence Award

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