Noel Alumit is an American novelist, actor, visual artist and activist.
13 Facts About Noel Alumit
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Noel Alumit was identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine.
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Noel Alumit was born the second of four children, in Baguio, the Philippines, and raised in Los Angeles, United States.
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Noel Alumit earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Southern California and later studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players.
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Noel Alumit received his Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy from the University of the West.
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Noel Alumit's one-man show, The Rice Room: Scenes From a Bar, premiered in Santa Monica in 1999, and was later staged at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2000.
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Noel Alumit wrote and performed another successful solo show, Master of the Universe, at Highways Performance Art Space in Santa Monica, California.
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Noel Alumit's work has been published in Tilting the Continent, Take Out, Subterraneans, DisOrient, and Lion's Roar.
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Noel Alumit has performed in many Los Angeles productions, including the world premiere of Chay Yew's A Language of Their Own and Michael Kearns' Who's Afraid of Edward Albee.
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Noel Alumit can be seen in Alliance and the forthcoming Pearls Lost directed by Rebecca Ocampo.
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Noel Alumit received an Emerging Voices Fellowship from PEN Center USA West and a Community Access Scholarship to UCLA's Writers Extension, studying fiction and the personal essay form.
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Noel Alumit was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2010.
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Noel Alumit was appointed to the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs in 2012.