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Performer | Social Practice Artist | Award-Winning Writer

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ABOUT

"Big, bold, and endlessly impressive"
- Baltimore City Paper

Donna Oblongata is a critically-acclaimed performer, social practice artist, and award-winning writer. Her work has been described as, "big, bold, and endlessly impressive" - Baltimore City Paper and, “balancing on the thrilling precipice of pleasure and danger” – New Orleans Box Office. She has performed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Ars Nova (NY), and shared the stage with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Slava’s Snow Show. As a writer, she has received a MacDowell Fellowship and won awards for her short fiction. Her protest art in support of Gaza was recently acquired by the Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. Her social practice project Vote By Pal can be seen at VoteByPal.com. As a performer, she has toured her own work extensively throughout North America, Europe and New Zealand for almost two decades.

DONNA'S WORK

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VOTE BY PAL

Vote By Pal is online a tool created by artist Donna Oblongata that connects Americans who can vote but don't want to with Americans who wish they could vote, but can't.
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PRIVY PRIVY

 An immersive installation in collaboration with Patrick Costello, interrogating questions of morality and pleasure by simulating a public restroom in a queer nightclub.
With ice cream.

THE VAN GOGH SHOGH

An evening-length solo performance.
One part deranged Sip 'n Paint, one part karaoke night
and one part Christie's.

"Lovable, engaging and extremely funny...Brimming with inspired lunacy"
-Talkin' Broadway

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