ALOK

Internationally acclaimed gender non-conforming and transfeminine author, poet, comedian, mixed-media artist and public speaker ALOK explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition in their new comedy show, Biology.

Described by Chortle as "provocative and powerful",a "potent combination of comedy and poetry" by The Scotsman, and a "Jaw-dropping celestial event" by To Do List London, Texas-born Alok Vaid-Menon is 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.

Over the past decade, they have toured in more than 40 countries, most recently selling out their runs at the Soho Theatre in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center.

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.

On screen, they will make their feature film debut in Absolute Dominion opposite Patton Oswalt and next can be seen in Emmie Lichtenberg’s film Complicated Order opposite Midori Francis that premiered at OutFest Film Festival in July 2023. On television, they can next be seen in the third season of the critically acclaimed MAX series SORT OF opposite Bilal Baig.