D 'Lo (he/they)
Co-Director
D’Lo is an LA Based queer/trans actor/writer/comic and director whose work range includes stand-up, solo theater, plays, films and poetry. His solo shows Ramble-Ations, D’FunQT and To T, or not To T have been presented at theaters & festivals internationally, and his stand-up show D’FaQTo Life tours the college/university circuit. His work has been published and/or written about in academic journals, literary anthologies, and print/online journalism sources, such as LA Times, The Guardian, NBC, and The Advocate. He is a Senior Civic Media Fellow through USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab funded by the MacArthur Foundation. He was invited as a commentator on CNN, was on NPR’s CodeSwitch and back in the day, appeared in Buzzfeed and Fusion videos. He is the subject of an award-winning documentary PERFORMING GIRL which has been used as a conversational tool on college campuses. He facilitates ‘writing for performance’ & ‘healing trauma through comedy’ workshops, and created the “Coming Out, Coming Home” writing workshop series for South Asian and/or Immigrant LGBTQ Organizations across the nation. As an actor, he has television roles in: LOOKING, TRANSPARENT, SENSE 8, Mr. ROBOT and CONNECTING, QUANTUM LEAP and Billy Eichner’s BROS.
D’Lo has been awarded the Sherwood Award from Center Theater Group, an Artist Disruptor Fellowship for TV Writing through the Center for Cultural Performance and 5050×2020; and was offered the opportunity to work with Sameer Gardezi’s Break the Room Initiative housed at Paul Feig’s Powderkeg Media. His last play To, T or not To T? was presented at the Kirk Douglas Theater in 2022.
