About
"Big, bold and endlessly impressive"
- Baltimore City Paper
Donna Oblongata is an award-winning performer, social practice artist, and writer whose work has been called, "weird and wonderful" by The Art Newspaper and "a fascinating and uproariously good time" by Adventures in Theatreland. She has shown work at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Ars Nova (NYC), SXSW, Miami Art Week, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and shared the stage with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Slava’s Snow Show.
Her work has been seen around the world and has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, the Leeway Foundation and more.
Donna came up through punk and anarchist communities as an itinerant artist whose work was embedded in grassroots social movements around the US. She grew a national following as a founding member of the beloved and critically acclaimed punk rock theatre company, The Missoula Oblongata.
The politics, aesthetics, and community relationships that shaped her early work continue to drive and inform each of her projects, whether she's performing in a professional London playhouse or a squat in St. Louis.
Donna's currently touring her evening-length solo performance, The Van Gogh Shogh, with an upcoming run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her immersive musical, EF! (collaboration with Sequoia Sellinger) is currently in development, thanks to support from the Dorothy Byrne Foundation.
"Inventive, brimming with compassion, and monstrously funny." - The Milwaukee Examiner