D’Lo To Provide Sneaky and Soulful Ways to Change the World and Ourselves at QPOC Conference, April 8-10, 2011

D’Lo, a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer, will present a featured workshop at the Queer People of Color Conference this April at UC Riverside. D’Lo’s workshop will make a link between/performance/writing and the sneaky ways we want to be subversive in this world. D'Lo will guide participants in a series of exercises that unleash the creative spirit.

D’Lo has performed and/or facilitated performance and writing workshops
extensively (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Sri Lanka and India), having
recently held workshops in LA with SATRANG and as a teaching artist
with Teada Productions Theater Company. D’Lo’s work has
been published in various anthologies and academic journals, most
recently: Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asia America and Experiments
in a Jazz Aesthetic (co-edited by Sharon Bridgforth). D’Lo
holds a BA from UCLA in Ethnomusicology and is a graduate of New
York’s School of Audio Engineering (SAE).

Aside from touring the university/college circuit with D’FaQTo Life (pronounced
defacto), D’Lo tours Ramble-Ations:
A One D’Lo Show (dir. Adelina Anthony) which received the
NPN Creation Fund Grant inclusive of residencies in 8 US cities and
additional support from the Durfee Foundation Grant. Ramble-Ations
has now had runs at New World Theater (Amherst), Pangea World Theater
(Minneapolis), The Flea Theater as part of the National Asian
American Theater Festival (New York) and Painted Bride
(Philadelphia), Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), Ashe
Cultural Center (New Orleans), Brava Theater (San Francisco), Miles
Playhouse (Teada/Sant Monica) and here at MACLA.

Early this year, D’Lo participated in the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) –
an international three week
intensive residency in Bali with a particular focus on American and
Asian artists through UCLA’s Center for Intercultural
Performance.

Recently, D’Lo acted in Cherrie Moraga’s new play Digging
Up the Dirt, toured excerpts from the latest solo theater show
Minor D’Tales,
premiered a full stand-up storytelling show D’FunQT

(pronounced defunct) and sold out in New York’s Dixon Place
Theater. Currently, D’s 2nd play Boys That Pray is going into
development at Brava Theater in San Francisco with its staged reading
premiere in June 2011.

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