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.