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Alex Luu is a performance artist, workshop director/teacher, and independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles who graduated from the UCLA Film/Theater School.

Alex has been performing his critically acclaimed one-man show “Three Lives” nationally since 1997. Alex was also a member of the landmark Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Asian Men writing/performing group. His solo and ensemble works have been seen at Boston Center for the Arts, Highways, New York’s National Asian American Theatre Company, Japanese American National Museum, East West Players, Tremont Theater, San Francisco’s Asian American Theater Center, and campuses across the country. His work has garnered critical acclaim from The Boston Globe, LA Times, Orange County Register, LA Weekly, Southend News, Asian New Yorker, Rafu Shimpo, AsianWeek and other publications.

Alex conducts MOS (My Own Story), an autobiographical writing/storytelling/ performing workshop for college and high school students across the country. The workshop allows youth to explore their life stories, engage in conflict mediation, and claim their individual voices in a writing/performance context. Alex is also a winner at the 1992 Los Angeles Poetry Festival Contest and his writings have been published in numerous anthologies including “Spreading The Word” and the first CD ROM collection of Asian American poets and storytellers produced by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center. Alex’s “Three Lives” is published in the new anthology “Bold Words” from Rutgers University Press.

Luu is a featured performer with Great Leap’s productions of “A Slice of Rice” and “A Slice of Rice, Frijoles and Greens.”

To email the artist directly: three_lives@yahoo.com