- A Shiny Life For Me
- A Shiny Life For Me
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy" - Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy" - Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy" - Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy" - Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy" - Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
- Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
- Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
- Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
- Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
- Talkin' Broadway
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
- Talkin' Broadway
PROJECTS
The Van Gogh Shogh
An evening-length solo clown show. One part deranged sip and paint, one part karaoke night, one part Sotheby's. Directed by Francesca Montanile-Lyons.
"A delightfully unhinged journey...a sparkling gem of fringe theatre"
-A Shiny Life for Me
"A fascinating and uproariously good time"
-Adventures in Theatreland
"Extremely funny...inspired lunacy"
-Talkin' Broadway
"Brings a visceral excitement rarely seen in live performance"
-Cornelia Magazine
Privy Privy
"Weird and wonderful"
-The Art Newspaper
"One of Miami Art Week's most memorable experiences"
-OutSFL
"Cheeky, subversive and deeply joyful...pure unfiltered fun"
-No Proscenium
An immersive installation in collaboration with Patrick Costello. Simulating a public restroom in a queer nightclub to interrogate questions of morality and pleasure. With ice cream and a soundtrack from 1980s DJ mix-tapes, archived by the artists.
Review by Emily Colucci in Filthy Dreams
EF!
An immersive musical inspired by the Earth First! movement. Book & lyrics by Donna Oblongata. Music by Sequoia Sellinger. Currently in development.
Development supported by:
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MacDowell
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Foundation for Contemporary Arts
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Ellis-Beauregard Foundation
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Willhelm Family Foundation
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Dr. Bronner's
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Fund for Wild Nature
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Dorothy Byrne Foundation.
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College of the Atlantic Visiting Artist Fellowship
Vote By Pal
Read an Op-Ed Donna wrote about the piece
for the Philadelphia Inquirer
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. Active 2020 - Present.
All 100 Fires
"Balances on the thrilling precipice of pleasure and danger...both hilarious, poking fun at its own absurdity, and deeply sincere, envisioning a better world."
- New Orleans Box Office
"Inventive, brimming with compassion, and monstrously funny."
- Milwaukee examiner
An evening-length solo dark comedy about guerrilla warfare, mass extinction, and what it means to die with dignity. Directed by Francesca Montanile-Lyons. Supported by the Puffin Foundation and Meow Wolf. Created 2019. Tour cut short due to pandemic.
My Pizza, My Idea!
Commissioned by 601 ArtSpace, NYC
A collaboration with Patrick Costello (2019). A conceptual pizza business that inverts ideas of efficiency and convenience to reveal the joy, generosity and connection we often sacrifice in the name of those things.
Less Miserable
An unauthorized, illegal production of the Broadway musical, Les Miserables. Produced completely off-the-grid in the woods of Vermont, and toured in vegetable-oil-powered school buses with a volunteer cast and crew of 55. Performed all 402 pages of the original score, with a live orchestra and homemade revolving stage. Sold-out tour to five major cities advertised exclusively without the use of the internet.
The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act
"One of the best productions of the year."
-Milwaukee Examiner
"Whip smart and dirt poor."
-Broward New Times
"A welcome oasis of imagination."
-DCMetro Arts
A two-person, multi-character play performed on a 6' x 6' stage, 3' off the ground. It centers around Charles Darwin's (fictional) search for the Yeti, accompanied by his pet bat. Along the way, he meets a lonely ropemaker who lives in a cave. All of this is narrated by the electromagnetic spectrum, who is the target of the bat's unrequited affections.
Other Work
Donna's work spans two decades and a breadth of media. She has written, directed and performed innumerable works as member of the collectives The Missoula Oblongata and Wham City, as well as continually collaborating with grassroots and non-profit campaigns for social and environmental justice.
Donna has created visual spectacles and designed protest art for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the ACLU, Philly Thrive, the People's Climate March, Center for Popular Democracy, Election Defenders, Amistad Law Project, The Women's March, Rabbis for Ceasefire, Jewish Voice for Peace, and many other groups.