Kristina Wong is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and the first Asian American woman to be named Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama. She’s a performance artist, comedian, actor, writer and former elected official who has been presented internationally across North America, the UK, Hong Kong and Africa. Notable solo shows include: Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Going Green the Wong Way, The Wong Street Journal, and Kristina Wong for Public Office. Her role in accidentally starting theAuntie Sewing Squad, a national mutual aid mask sewing network during the Covid-19 pandemic, was the subject Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord— a New York Times Critics Pick that premiered off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop. That show was the 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama and winner of the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Her three year Artist-in-Residence appointment at ASU Gammage has run concurrent to being a Kennedy Center (rest in peace) Social Practice Fellow. Her work has been awarded with support from Creative Capital, The MAP Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, National Performance Network, a COLA Master Artist Fellowship from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, nine Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence awards, Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award, the Art Matters Foundation, and the Joan D. Firestone Commissioning Fund from En Garde Arts. In addition to guest starring roles on movies on Netflix and shows on Nickelodeon and ABC, she’s been a commentator on late night shows on NBC, Comedy Central and FX. She starred in her own pilot presentation with Lionsgate for truTV. Her commentaries have appeared on American Public Media’s Marketplace, PBS, VICE, Jezebel, Playgirl Magazine, Huffington Post and CNN. She’s been awarded artist residencies from MacDowell, San Diego Airport and Ojai Playwrights Festival. Auntie Kristina’s Guide to Asian American Activism will be published Spring 2026 from Beaming Books and is co-written with the producers of Radical Cram School, the web series she has created for kids. www.kristinawong.com
Jessica Hanna is a Los Angeles based Director, Producer & Space Maker. She is founding Producing Artistic Director of Outside In Theatre, a new non-profit theatre company based in Highland Park. A member of The Kilroys and was Chair of SITI Company’s Board of Directors (2019-2023). Her focus as a director has been on new play development. Thrilled to be working with Kristina Wong, supporting her world changing work. Upcoming: World Premieres of Jami Brandli’s O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE at Outside In Theatre. JessQueen.com for more info.
Howard Ho is a playwright, composer, and Youtuber based in New York City. He recently sound designed the Off Broadway show MY MAN KONO at Pan Asian Rep and has earned sound design nominations from the Ovation Award and SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. He is a 2024 winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival for BEETHOVEN’S THIRD. His play RESET was produced at Moving Arts and is published by Next Stage Press. His Youtube musicology channel (youtube.com/HowardHoMusic) has over 125,000 subscribers and was recognized by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jon M. Chu. Based on his Youtube analyses, his forthcoming book “How Hamilton Works: The Music Theory of Lin-Manuel Miranda” is being published by Smith & Kraus. He thanks Kristina and Jessica for their collaboration. IG:@howardwho
Amanda Eno is a native of Colorado who now calls Los Angeles her home. She often works in immersive theater, brand activations, and corporate events. She also just started her own Stage and Production Management company, Live Management Society. Most of all, she is thrilled to be joining Kristina again after previously touring with her for KRISTINA WONG FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.
Thea Hopkins is a member of Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard MA, performing songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music Red Roots Americana. She has been described as a “standout writer” by the Washington Post. Her new album, “Blossom & Ghosts”, is scheduled to be released in September 2025. In 2024, Thea attended the ISPA Congress in Perth (AUS) and WOMEX in Manchester (UK) as a Western Arts Alliance artist delegate. She was an official showcase artist at the International Indigenous Music Summit in June 2023. Her song, “The Ghost Of Emmett Till” was the grand prize winner of the Great American Song Contest in 2021.
Venues where Thea has performed include Massey Hall (CN), Banff Centre For The Arts (CN) Kennedy Center (DC), Woody Guthrie Festival (OK), the Moseley Folk Festival (UK), the Summertyne Americana Festival (UK) and the Bluebird Cafe (TN). Her new album, “Here In Our World” is scheduled to be released in September 2024. She first came to wider public notice when Peter, Paul & Mary recorded her song “Jesus Is On The Wire” in 2004, and then again in 2010 with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. It is considered one of their later signature.
“Wong is good company and an accomplished story teller”
— The New York Times
“[Wong] turns real-life experiences into hilarious performance pieces touching on serious social justice themes.”
— NPR
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