Two solo shows
by the award-winning
performance artist, writer and playwright

DENISE UYEHARA

"Compelling....as graceful and agile on stage as she is on the page....
Uyehara is definitely one to watch."
- Los Angeles Times

The following performances have been presented
at theaters and colleges nationally and internationally.
For booking call (310) 285-3698 or
email dahoodore@aol.com.


The Critically Acclaimed
HELLO (SEX) KITTY
Mad Asian Bitch On Wheels

A heartfelt and humorous exploration into love, dating and sexuality, this work excites all genders to laugh, talk and respect each other. Uyehara tells it like it is through the Vegetable Girl, the Mad Kabuki Woman, an Asian dyke and an Asian guy. She tackles "that Asian male/female thang" in 'The Joy Fucked Up Club', examines love, violence and respect among men and women, discusses HIV/AIDS, and gives the real deal on women loving women. Nominated for "Outstanding Cultural Event of 1996" by the Lambda Awards, Philadelphia Gay News.

Critic's Choice...Utterly convincing and pointedly funny....a performer of humor, depth and seeming fearlessness."
- L.A. Weekly

"[Uyehara] describes making love as an opportunity to see, if only for a moment, a person with the layers stripped away....we are naked at the moment of orgasm, and it is then that our true selves are visible through the eyes."
-Labyrinth Philadelphia Women's Newspaper

"With an affinity for truth telling, body baring, and institution baiting [Uyehara is] quietly focused as a laser...fueled by a wonderful sense of the absurd...like most everything else about her, it's not quite logical, but it makes perfect sense."
- One of the Hundred Coolest People in L.A. , Buzz Magazine

The Award-winning
HEADLESS TURTLENECK RELATIVES
A Tale of Family and a Grandmother's Suicide by Fire

A theatrical dreamscape that honors family, relatives and the legacy they leave behind. This death and life affirming piece mixes stories, movement and music to help us laugh, cry and find ourselves within the tales of our grandparents.

"A haunting reflection of the past...blends song and soliloquy."
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Critic's Choice...Treading the high ground between sentiment and cynicism, Uyehara relates her grandmother's fiery suicide in simple, evocative terms....[Her] wonder as she explores the unkowable resonates beyond the theater's walls to the dark details that inhabit the corners of our lives. "
- L.A. Weekly

"The telling of her tales pointed and the performance itself pristine....the material careens from tragedy to irony, and from past to present to future...In fact, what separates Uyehara from the pack is that she has both a voice, as in stage and vocal skills, and a voice, as in sharply realized point of view.
- Los Angeles Times



FOR BOOKING CONTACT:

Uyehara/Fearless Hair Theater Productions
1653 18th St., #4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
tel: (310) 285-3698
fax: (310) 829-3139
email: dahoodore@aol.com

Performance history includes:

Fourth World Conference on Women, Hairou, Beijing, China (selected works)
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Women in View in Vancouver, B.C.
The Walker Arts Center, MN
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica
The Philadelphia Women's Festival
The Painted Bride, PA
The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles
Cleveland Performance Art Festival ('93 featured artist)
North West Asian American Theater, Seattle
Asian American Theater Company, San Francisco
Brown University, RI
Bryn Mawr College, PA
Colby College, ME
Hampshire College, MA
Williams College, MA
Mid-West Asian American Student Union Conference
Northwestern, Evanston
University of Illinois, Urbana
University of Florida
University of California (UCLA, Santa Barbara, Riverside)
Reid College, Portland
University of Texas, Austin
[Biography]

Denise Uyehara (oo-weh'-ha-ra) is a writer, performance artist and playwright whose work has explored what it means to be a woman, an Asian American, a bisexual and a human being, not necessarily in that order. Since 1988 she has explored experimental theater and writing for the stage. Her critically acclaimed Headless Turtleneck Relatives and Hello (Sex) Kitty have been received by enthusiastic audiences across the United States and internationally in London, Vancouver and Beijing. Uyehara is also 1/4 of Sacred Naked Nature Girls, a culturally diverse experimental performance collective, which has been presented internationally.

A former member of the Mark Taper Forum Mentor Playwrights Project, Uyehara is the author of several plays including Jo & Millie Go To Church and Hiro which ran at East West Players in Los Angeles and The Northwest Asian American Theater in Seattle. She has conducted numerous workshops with seniors and Asian American men and women, and her fiction and essays appear in the Lesbian News, the Rafu Shimpo, L.A. Weekly and the Asian Pacific American Journal. She worked with Robbie McCauley and the Arts Company on The Other Weapon, an ensemble collaboration about the Black Panther Party. Uyehara received a B.A. in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, where she also studied fiction, theater, playwriting.

Recognitions of excellence include:

- New Langton Arts/National Endowment for the Arts grant (co-recipient)
- City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Individual Artist Grant
- AT&T:OnStage production grant with East West Players
- City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
- Brody Arts Fund Fellowship
- C.Y. Lee Writing Award
- James Irvine Fellowship
- James Clavell American Japanese National Literary Award