Noel Alumit
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| Born: | January 08, 1970 Manila,Philippines |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Debut works: | Letters to Montgomery Clift |
| Website: | http://thelastnoel.blogspot.com/ |
Named one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine, novelist, actor, and activist, Noël Alumit was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in the Los Angeles area of the United States. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Southern California and later studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players.
Alumit's play Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing was produced by Teatro Ng Tanan in San Francisco and also in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Boston, and Philadelphia. Other plays penned by Alumit have been showcased at East West Players in Los Angeles and the Ma Yi Theatre Company in New York.
His one-man show, The Rice Room: Scenes From a Bar, was voted one of the best solo shows of the year by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and played to sold-out houses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. He also wrote and performed another successful solo show, Master of the (Miss) Universe at Highways Performance Art Space in Santa Monica California. Master of the (Miss) Universe was named "Best Bet" by The Los Angeles Times.
Alumit received an Emerging Voices Fellowship from PEN Center USA West and a Community Access Scholarship to UCLA's Writers Extension, studying fiction and the personal essay form. His work has been published in Tilting the Continent (New Rivers Press), Take Out (Asian American Writers Workshop/Temple University), Subterraneans, and the literary journal DisOrient. His heralded debut novel, Letters to Montgomery Clift (MacAdam Cage), received the 2003 [Stonewall Book Award] for literature and his second novel, Talking To the Moon, was released in late 2006 by Carroll & Graf.
As an actor, Alumit's film and TV credits include "Beverly Hills 90210", "The Young and the Restless", and "Red Surf". He has performed in many Los Angeles productions, including the world premiere of Chay Yew's "A Language of Their Own" (LA Weekly Theater Award for Ensemble Performance) and Michael Kearns' "Whose Afraid of Edward Albee".
[edit] External links
- Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
- Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
- Asian Week
- Arts Source Los Angeles
- The Montgomery Clift Shrine
- PEN Center USA
- The Advocate Article on Noel Alumit (archival)
- International Gay and Lesbian Review
- OUT100: Out Magazine Top 100 Most Influential Gay People (archival)
