Dan Kwong is an American performance artist, playwright, director, teacher, and documentary videomaker.
16 Facts About Dan Kwong
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Dan Kwong has been presenting his solo performances since 1989, frequently drawing upon his own life experiences to explore personal, historical, and societal issues.
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Dan Kwong has been an artist with multicultural performing arts organization Great Leap, Inc since 1990 and assumed the position of Associate Artistic Director in 2011.
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Dan Kwong has been a Resident Mentor Artist at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California since 1992.
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The Kwong family moved to Silverlake, Los Angeles, then a working-class neighborhood with primarily Asian and African American families, in 1960.
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The second of four children, Dan Kwong has three sisters: Maria, Diana, and Barbara.
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Dan Kwong's father Sam Kwong was a commercial photographer from Guangzhou, China.
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Dan Kwong is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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In 2023 Dan Kwong embarked on his largest, most ambitious project yet: restoring the baseball field at Manzanar National Historic Site in the Owens Valley of California, and producing an exhibition doubleheader there with players from the Japanese American baseball leagues of California.
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Dan Kwong has performed in over 40 of the United States and in England, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Mexico, Canada, China and Korea.
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In 2019, Dan Kwong began writing a play with Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara of Ruben and the Jets based on the short story Masao and the Bronze Nightingale, by Guevara.
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Tales of Little Tokyo - In summer of 2018, Dan Kwong was one of four artists selected for the inaugural +LAB Artist Residency, sponsored by the Little Tokyo Service Center.
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Each artist was partnered with a local organization for their project, Dan Kwong being paired with the Japanese American National Museum.
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FandangObon - Since its inception in 2013 Dan Kwong has directed this annual cross-cultural event of traditional Japanese, Mexican and West African music and dance.
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In December 2017 Dan Kwong returned to HK for more shooting, this time assisted by independent filmmaker Max Good.
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In 1994 Dan Kwong founded the Asian American Men's Writing and Performing Workshop in Los Angeles to tackle Asian stereotypes in media.