Cultural Arts: Stages
D'Lo
D’FunQT
As a queer boy/stud/trans person, D’Lo uses his fluidly morphing form and spot-on timing in D’FunQT, a full-length, stand-up storytelling show. Filled with D’Lo’s humorous musings, rants and stories of being a queer boy/trans person who grew up in a strict immigrant family, D’FunQT finds him trying to make it all work peacefully while radically and bizarrely challenging mindsets by choosing to exist unapologetically.
Written by D’Lo
Directed by Ken Sawyer
Produced by Los Angeles LGBT Center/Jon Imparato
Presented at the Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre
on April 3, 2015
THE CAST
D'Lo
Directed by Ken Sawyer; setting by Robert Selander; lighting by Matt Richter; sound design by Ken Sawyer; production manager Patricia Sutherland; and crew Adam Earle, Kathleen Jaffe, and Caitlyn Rucker.
To T, or Not to T?
In a hilariously intimate reflection on taking T(estosterone) and his experiences transitioning, Tamil-Sri Lankan American artist, D’Lo shares his confusion with, and pushback to, what is expected when one passes as a cisgender, straight, man of color. Fusing stand-up comedy and storytelling, To T, or Not to T confronts D’Lo’s quest to embody a beautiful masculinity that upholds his queer and feminist politic.
Written by D’Lo
Directed by Adelina Anthony
Produced by Los Angeles LGBT Center/Jon Imparato
Presented at the Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre
on October 4, 2019
THE CAST
D’Lo
Directed by Adelina Anthony; setting by Astrid Anderson; lighting by Matt Richter; sound design by Edwin Peraza; video projection design by Meena Murugesan; additional scenic design by Sita Srijaerajah; production stage manager Adam Earle; dramaturgy by Adelina Anthony; production manager Patricia Sutherland; and crew Jax Ball, Kaitlin Chang, Angel Hernandez, Maggie Marx, Dennis Peraza, Edwin Peraza, Caitlyn Rucker, and Rebecca Schoenberg.
