Described as a “jolt of creative and comedic energy”, D’Lo is a Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer.
D’Lo loves to make people laugh and think – in no particular order.
D’Lo began developing talents in music (piano, vina and percussion) at a young age and holds a BA from UCLA in Ethnomusicology and is a graduate of New York’s School of Audio Engineering (SAE).
The theater work is yummy and has been presented all over the nation (and internationally – but who cares – God Bless America and no where else). D’Lo has toured the university and college circuit with stand up comedy and spoken word for over a decade – at even the ivy league ones that tend to make strangers want to befriend D’Lo or just think more highly of D’Lo.
D’Lo has also facilitated performance and writing workshops all over the world (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Sri Lanka and India), having recently held workshops in LA with SATRANG and as a teaching artist with Teada Productions Theater Company.
D’Lo’s career work has included being part of several performance groups, establishing D’s self as both a solo and collaborative performer, and being published in various magazines and anthologies. Woopdeedoo…
Aside from vigorously touring the university/college circuit, D’Lo works with regional theaters across the US and has presented “Ramble-Ations: A One D’Lo Show” which received the NPN Creation Fund Grant and recently received a Durfee Foundation Grant for the last 3-wk production at Brava Theater in San Francisco. Ramble-Ations has now had runs at New World Theater (Amherst), Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis), The Flea Theater as part of the National Asian American Theater Festival (New York) and Painted Bride (Philadelphia), Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), and Ashe Cultural Center (New Orleans).
Recently, D’Lo returned from participating in the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) – an international three‐week intensive residency in Bali with a particular focus on American and Asian artists. Currently, D’Lo is touring excerpts from the latest solo show “Minor D’Tales” which premiered as a work-in-progress at San Francisco in November and is hitting up stages with stand up, continuously writing for many kinds and styles for the screen and stage.
