ALOK

Over the past few years, transphobia has flared up like an allergic reaction which is why ALOK thought it would be an amazing time to hard launch their career in Hollywood. Now that’s what we like to call impeccable comedic timing! Being trans and Indian is a textbook hairy situation but since textbooks are being banned all over the US we are no longer at liberty to say that. In their new standup show ALOK keeps finding themself in hairy situations: being mistaken as a mega-famous Brazilian DJ, botching TikTok makeup tutorials, and signing up for an appointment at the European Wax Center (aka Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department). Flippant and fabulous. Wicked sharp and delightfully silly. Join ALOK for an unmissable evening with support from Travis Alabanza!

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017), Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), and Your Wound/My Garden (2021) and the creator of #DeGenderFashion: an initiative to degender fashion and beauty industries. In recognition of their work, they have been honored as the inaugural LGBTQ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and awarded a GLAAD Media Award and Stonewall Foundation Visionary Award. Over the past decade, they have toured in more than 40 countries, most recently selling out their runs at the Kennedy Performing Arts Center.

Travis Alabanza is an award winning writer and performer from the UK. Their debut show Burgerz toured internationally and won the total Edinburgh Fringe Award, with their following works Overflow winning the George Divine award and Sound of the Underground receiving critical acclaim including five stars in the guardian.