1. Kristina Wong is an American comedian known primarily for her work as a solo theater performer, performance artist, and actor.
21 Facts About Kristina Wong
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Kristina Wong's grandmother immigrated to the United States from Guang Mei Cun, a village near Kaiping county, in the 1930s.
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Kristina Wong attended an all-girls Catholic high school, where she took speech class.
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Kristina Wong graduated in 2000 with double degrees in English and World Arts and Cultures and a minor in Asian American Studies.
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The installation included Kristina Wong interacting with exhibit-goers next to a display case full of memorabilia from "Fannie Kristina Wong's" previous performances, including the time she crashed the 2003 Miss LA Chinatown pageant.
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Kristina Wong lost the election for Democratic delegate of Assembly District 53 in Jan 2019, a volunteer position to represent the district at the Democratic State Convention.
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Kristina Wong has subsequently been elected to the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council in April 2019, a largely volunteer position that meets once a month at the local library.
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Kristina Wong launched her next campaign event alongside the presidential election in February 2020.
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Additionally, Kristina Wong discusses the pervasive nature of social media and contrasts it to the lack of personal understanding between people of different cultures, admitting to the urges of documenting everything online.
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Kristina Wong posits that this practice is no different than American's perception of Africa coming from different forms of white media.
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In 2018, Kristina Wong brought the show to Africa and appeared as a guest in The Other News, My Africa Podcast and as Guest on Nigerian comedian Ali Baba's Seriously Speaking.
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Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord is a 2021 American play by Wong, centered on her experience organizing hundreds of volunteers to sew masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, calling themselves the "Auntie Sewing Squad".
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In 2018, Kristina Wong launched "RADICAL CRAM SCHOOL", a web series children's show where she leads discussions with kids of lower elementary school age around various social justice topics.
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Kristina Wong often writes about the perception of Asians in popular culture.
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In June 2015, Kristina Wong was a panelist on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, discussing Emma Stone's casting as a half Asian-Pacific woman in Aloha.
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Kristina Wong appeared alongside comedians Jo Koy and Dan St Germain, who debated with her and Wilmore the legitimacy of a white woman being cast as a woman of color.
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Kristina Wong documented this challenge and gave her the new hat of Food Bank Influencer.
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Kristina Wong appeared in the premiere episode of Asian American cable network Myx TV's first original reality series I'm Asian American and.
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In October 2014, Kristina Wong was featured in the New York Times "Off Color Comedy" series.
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Kristina Wong was awarded the 2022 Lucille Lortel award for Outstanding Solo Show and the Outer Critics Circle award for Outstanding Solo Show.
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Kristina Wong was additionally nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Show and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Outstanding Solo Show.