Hi, I'm Diana Oh. My pronouns are they/she. I am a Truth Teller and Truth Seeker in all forms of the Art. My good friend Francisco Ramirez calls me The Punk Goddex. I think it's because I believe in Art with the capital "A" and I believe in making it. I am an Artist who enjoys not fitting into boxes. I'm a creative, writer, actor, solo performer, singer, songwriter, musician, and creator of live and virtual events, performance, installation, ritual and party. I'm a Dance Floor.
I'M AN OPEN CHANNEL TO THE ART THAT FEELS GOOD TO MY BODY. A FEEDER OF THE SOUL. A FREE SPIRIT. MY CALLING IS TO QUEER THE PROCESS AND TO QUEER THE WORLD. MY CALLING IS TO CENTER AND CELEBRATE QUEER, TRANS, NON-BINARY HUMANS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR - WITH INTEGRITY AND JOY. And to get Allies in on the fun of it. I am driven most by pleasure, mutual care, and keeping things heart-centered. Ya dig? If so, then have fun looking around my pleasure palace and be my friend, 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.”
I'M AN OPEN CHANNEL TO THE ART THAT FEELS GOOD TO MY BODY. A FEEDER OF THE SOUL. A FREE SPIRIT. MY CALLING IS TO QUEER THE PROCESS AND TO QUEER THE WORLD. MY CALLING IS TO CENTER AND CELEBRATE QUEER, TRANS, NON-BINARY HUMANS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR - WITH INTEGRITY AND JOY. And to get Allies in on the fun of it. I am driven most by pleasure, mutual care, and keeping things heart-centered. Ya dig? If so, then have fun looking around my pleasure palace and be my friend, 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
Solo Performer
Open Channel
A Dance Floor
"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
Solo Performer
Open Channel
A Dance Floor
"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."
'sSome of My Projects:
Untitled Documentary
A documentary film by Jon Burklund revealing and re-discovered the boundary breaking and heart-centered process of Diana Oh's {my lingerie play} and CLAIRVOYANCE
My H8 Letter to The Gr8 American Theatre (Developed at The Public Theater)
- can be virtual
CLAIRVOYANCE (Produced by American Repertory Theatre):
A yearlong series of installations, concert, and tree planting centering and celebrating QTPOC magic.
Installation #1: CHOSEN FAMILY PORTRAITS (Harvard Yard)
Installation #2: WHITE PEOPLE READ (The Boston Public Library)
Installation #3: THE ARTIST IN THEIR ELEMENT (The Institute of Contemporary Art)
THE CONCERT: The culmination of my year residency with A.R.T. and retrospective of Clairvoyance Installations)
Installation #4: THE TREE-PLANTING (The Harvard Arboretum)
Diana Oh's THE INFINITE LOVE PARTY (Presented by Bushwick Starr):
an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for QTPOC and Their Allies (read about in The New York Times and Culturebot)
- can be virtual
{my lingerie play} (Produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre):
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. Watch the Installations here, read about it in the New York Times and on Vulture.
24 Hour Punk (National Black Theatre / Joe's Pub / NYMF):
Diana parks in a sacred space for 24 Hours and creates music in that 24 hour period and presents it as a full-blown concert once the 24 hours is up. Oh last did this with lifelong music collaborator Gyun Cute at The National Black Theatre.
- can be virtual
The Dope North Star Workshop (been to lotttttts of places with this one)
A 3 Hour Workshop to name and claim your Dope North Star. Contact my agent ben.izzo@abramsartistsagency.com for bookings.
- can be virtual
12 Homes (NEW):
Diana visits the 12 homes she grew up living in in L.A. including the motel room on the Vegas Strip and an office above an Infiniti Car Dealership. While in each home (whether physically or virtually Oh will write one song for each home, culminating into a 12 song Concept Album)
- can be virtual
The Gift Project (NEW, commissioned by The Public Theater)
Diana interviews an elder who identifies as QTPOC and writes them a song about their lives and presents it as a gift.
- can be virtual
The Tangy Tour (NEW) :
Diana Oh's Retrospective with a setlist chosen at random by the audience every night.
- can be virtual
Untitled Documentary
A documentary film by Jon Burklund revealing and re-discovered the boundary breaking and heart-centered process of Diana Oh's {my lingerie play} and CLAIRVOYANCE
My H8 Letter to The Gr8 American Theatre (Developed at The Public Theater)
- can be virtual
CLAIRVOYANCE (Produced by American Repertory Theatre):
A yearlong series of installations, concert, and tree planting centering and celebrating QTPOC magic.
Installation #1: CHOSEN FAMILY PORTRAITS (Harvard Yard)
Installation #2: WHITE PEOPLE READ (The Boston Public Library)
Installation #3: THE ARTIST IN THEIR ELEMENT (The Institute of Contemporary Art)
THE CONCERT: The culmination of my year residency with A.R.T. and retrospective of Clairvoyance Installations)
Installation #4: THE TREE-PLANTING (The Harvard Arboretum)
Diana Oh's THE INFINITE LOVE PARTY (Presented by Bushwick Starr):
an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for QTPOC and Their Allies (read about in The New York Times and Culturebot)
- can be virtual
{my lingerie play} (Produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre):
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. Watch the Installations here, read about it in the New York Times and on Vulture.
24 Hour Punk (National Black Theatre / Joe's Pub / NYMF):
Diana parks in a sacred space for 24 Hours and creates music in that 24 hour period and presents it as a full-blown concert once the 24 hours is up. Oh last did this with lifelong music collaborator Gyun Cute at The National Black Theatre.
- can be virtual
The Dope North Star Workshop (been to lotttttts of places with this one)
A 3 Hour Workshop to name and claim your Dope North Star. Contact my agent ben.izzo@abramsartistsagency.com for bookings.
- can be virtual
12 Homes (NEW):
Diana visits the 12 homes she grew up living in in L.A. including the motel room on the Vegas Strip and an office above an Infiniti Car Dealership. While in each home (whether physically or virtually Oh will write one song for each home, culminating into a 12 song Concept Album)
- can be virtual
The Gift Project (NEW, commissioned by The Public Theater)
Diana interviews an elder who identifies as QTPOC and writes them a song about their lives and presents it as a gift.
- can be virtual
The Tangy Tour (NEW) :
Diana Oh's Retrospective with a setlist chosen at random by the audience every night.
- can be virtual