DIANA OH (THEY/SHE) IS A MULTI-GENRE PERFORMER, PUNK GODDEX, SINGER, SONGWRITER, MUSICIAN, ACTOR, AND CREATOR OF PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION, CONCERT, RITUAL, AND PARTY. AN OPEN CHANNEL TO THE ART THAT FEELS GOOD TO THEIR BODY. A FEEDER OF THE SOUL. A NON-CONFORMING FREE SPIRIT. PASSIONATE ABOUT DECOLONIZING & QUEERING PROCESSES, OH IS DRIVEN MOST BY PLEASURE, MUTUAL CARE, AND KEEPING THINGS HEART-CENTERED.
OH IS THE CREATOR AND PERFORMER OF {MY LINGERIE PLAY} WITH NATIONAL UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS AND CONCERT STAGED IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE A SAFER, MORE COURAGEOUS WORLD FOR WOMEN, QUEER, TRANS, AND NON-BINARY HUMANS TO LIVE IN, CLAIRVOYANCE (HER YEARLONG INSTALLATION, CONCERT SERIES, AND TREE PLANTING IN HARVARD YARD, THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HARVARD ARBORETUM AND A.R.T.), THE INFINITE LOVE PARTY: AN INTENTIONAL BAREFOOT POTLUCK DINNER, DANCE PARTY, AND SLEEPOVER FOR QTPOC AND THEIR ALLIES (BUSHWICK STARR), ASIAN PEOPLE ARE NOT MAGICIANS (MIC.COM) AND MY H8 LETTER 2 THE GR8 AMERICAN THEATRE (THE PUBLIC THEATER). TV/FILM: QUEERING, HOW TO BE SINGLE (WITH DAKOTA JOHNSON), NEW YORK IS DEAD (TRIBECA FILM FEST WITH ANA GASTEYER), HEY YUN (FEAT. ON JANET MOCK), UNICORNLAND (FEAT. MEDIUM). AS A REFINERY29 TOP LGBTQ INFLUENCER, THE FIRST QUEER KOREAN-AMERICAN INTERVIEWED ON KOREAN BROADCAST RADIO, A TOW FELLOW (RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE), VAN LIER FELLOW IN ACTING (ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE), VENTUROUS CAPITAL FELLOW, SUNDANCE INSTITUTE FELLOW, WRITER WITH THE PUBLIC THEATER’S MOBILE UNIT AND EWG, OH TOURS WITH THEIR ART IN UNEXPECTED SPACES AND ENJOYS NOT FITTING INTO BOXES. THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS OH “IRREVERENT,” YOU CAN CALL HER “FRIEND.”
OH IS THE CREATOR AND PERFORMER OF {MY LINGERIE PLAY} WITH NATIONAL UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS AND CONCERT STAGED IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE A SAFER, MORE COURAGEOUS WORLD FOR WOMEN, QUEER, TRANS, AND NON-BINARY HUMANS TO LIVE IN, CLAIRVOYANCE (HER YEARLONG INSTALLATION, CONCERT SERIES, AND TREE PLANTING IN HARVARD YARD, THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HARVARD ARBORETUM AND A.R.T.), THE INFINITE LOVE PARTY: AN INTENTIONAL BAREFOOT POTLUCK DINNER, DANCE PARTY, AND SLEEPOVER FOR QTPOC AND THEIR ALLIES (BUSHWICK STARR), ASIAN PEOPLE ARE NOT MAGICIANS (MIC.COM) AND MY H8 LETTER 2 THE GR8 AMERICAN THEATRE (THE PUBLIC THEATER). TV/FILM: QUEERING, HOW TO BE SINGLE (WITH DAKOTA JOHNSON), NEW YORK IS DEAD (TRIBECA FILM FEST WITH ANA GASTEYER), HEY YUN (FEAT. ON JANET MOCK), UNICORNLAND (FEAT. MEDIUM). AS A REFINERY29 TOP LGBTQ INFLUENCER, THE FIRST QUEER KOREAN-AMERICAN INTERVIEWED ON KOREAN BROADCAST RADIO, A TOW FELLOW (RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE), VAN LIER FELLOW IN ACTING (ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE), VENTUROUS CAPITAL FELLOW, SUNDANCE INSTITUTE FELLOW, WRITER WITH THE PUBLIC THEATER’S MOBILE UNIT AND EWG, OH TOURS WITH THEIR ART IN UNEXPECTED SPACES AND ENJOYS NOT FITTING INTO BOXES. THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS OH “IRREVERENT,” YOU CAN CALL HER “FRIEND.”
Diana Oh is a:
Punk Goddex
Creator of concert, installation, ritual, and party
An Unboxable Artist
Creative
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Actor
"My team and I threw The Infinite Love Party (an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for queer, trans, non-binary folx of color and Their Allies) in January at The Bushwick Starr. We created a squishy, sparkly, heart-centered space where QTPOC felt free to be who they are, and where their friends as allies and accomplices joined together to celebrate in unconditional love for 10 glorious sold-out nights. Party guests brought potluck dishes according to their zodiac signs, took care of one another, danced, and performed during The Liberated Performances. The evening included a DOPE MOTHERF*CKER Award, curated by me, and given each night to an NYC based organization who has made contributions towards our collective liberation (Recipients included Moon Choir: a choir for queer/trans folks & allies, New Women Space: an affirming event space for gender equity, Funkadelic Studios for supporting independent musicians of color, Blind Spot for facilitating greater critical thinking around inclusivity, API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG, The First National Korean Queer and Trans Conference, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, El Puente Leaders for Peace, Francisco Ramirez for providing accessible sex education, & Collective Sex for destigmatizing stories relating to intimacy & identity). May ILP be produced again and documented, celebrating more global heroes as we cultivate community with authentic joy as our greatest tool to inspire hope.
I love New York City with all of my heart and I escaped L.A. to be here - to be the exact liberated outspoken artist that I want to be. New York City inspires me and I love my community here - especially within my Queer and POC circle of loved ones, artists, and friends. I identify as a heart-centered multi-genre performer, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, punk goddex, and creator of performance, installation, concert, ritual, and party with the intention to queer the world. I enjoy not fitting into boxes. My drive is to create work that honors the power of naming and a culture of calling in rather than calling out - if I can help heal hearts in New York City, then I wholeheartedly believe that that can spread to others in the world. I began creating and documentary-film-making {my lingerie play} (ten underground performance installations in my lingerie staged in an effort to provide a safer, more courageous world for women, queer, trans and non-binary humans to live in) in the streets of New York City in 2014 and have been acting in New York Theatres since 2008. I have also created installations, concert, rituals, and parties within the vibrant, underground, off-the-kilter New York City Arts and Theatre scene with my music (at venues like Joe's Pub and The Public for which I am a writer-in-residence, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre for which I was a TOW Fellow, The Lark, Korean American Story, and others). This past January, I created The Infinite Love Party at Bushwick Starr (an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for Queer Trans People of Color and Their Allies, featured in the New York Times as “joyous freedom”). I have been creating my work lovingly and sincerely for my community in New York. As an artist, my autonomy and agency are paramount to me. I believe in the practice of radical non-complacency, compassion, communication, vulnerability heart-forwardness, and centering those otherwise marginalized in mainstream outlets. Living in and making my work in New York City has strengthened me to become the brave queer Korean-American Artist I am today who unapologetically lives at the apex of my intersections. I am grateful everyday for liberating my voice here."
Punk Goddex
Creator of concert, installation, ritual, and party
An Unboxable Artist
Creative
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Actor
"My team and I threw The Infinite Love Party (an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for queer, trans, non-binary folx of color and Their Allies) in January at The Bushwick Starr. We created a squishy, sparkly, heart-centered space where QTPOC felt free to be who they are, and where their friends as allies and accomplices joined together to celebrate in unconditional love for 10 glorious sold-out nights. Party guests brought potluck dishes according to their zodiac signs, took care of one another, danced, and performed during The Liberated Performances. The evening included a DOPE MOTHERF*CKER Award, curated by me, and given each night to an NYC based organization who has made contributions towards our collective liberation (Recipients included Moon Choir: a choir for queer/trans folks & allies, New Women Space: an affirming event space for gender equity, Funkadelic Studios for supporting independent musicians of color, Blind Spot for facilitating greater critical thinking around inclusivity, API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG, The First National Korean Queer and Trans Conference, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, El Puente Leaders for Peace, Francisco Ramirez for providing accessible sex education, & Collective Sex for destigmatizing stories relating to intimacy & identity). May ILP be produced again and documented, celebrating more global heroes as we cultivate community with authentic joy as our greatest tool to inspire hope.
I love New York City with all of my heart and I escaped L.A. to be here - to be the exact liberated outspoken artist that I want to be. New York City inspires me and I love my community here - especially within my Queer and POC circle of loved ones, artists, and friends. I identify as a heart-centered multi-genre performer, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, punk goddex, and creator of performance, installation, concert, ritual, and party with the intention to queer the world. I enjoy not fitting into boxes. My drive is to create work that honors the power of naming and a culture of calling in rather than calling out - if I can help heal hearts in New York City, then I wholeheartedly believe that that can spread to others in the world. I began creating and documentary-film-making {my lingerie play} (ten underground performance installations in my lingerie staged in an effort to provide a safer, more courageous world for women, queer, trans and non-binary humans to live in) in the streets of New York City in 2014 and have been acting in New York Theatres since 2008. I have also created installations, concert, rituals, and parties within the vibrant, underground, off-the-kilter New York City Arts and Theatre scene with my music (at venues like Joe's Pub and The Public for which I am a writer-in-residence, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre for which I was a TOW Fellow, The Lark, Korean American Story, and others). This past January, I created The Infinite Love Party at Bushwick Starr (an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for Queer Trans People of Color and Their Allies, featured in the New York Times as “joyous freedom”). I have been creating my work lovingly and sincerely for my community in New York. As an artist, my autonomy and agency are paramount to me. I believe in the practice of radical non-complacency, compassion, communication, vulnerability heart-forwardness, and centering those otherwise marginalized in mainstream outlets. Living in and making my work in New York City has strengthened me to become the brave queer Korean-American Artist I am today who unapologetically lives at the apex of my intersections. I am grateful everyday for liberating my voice here."