Noel Alumit
| Noel Alumit | |
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| Born |
January 8, 1968 Manila, Philippines |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | University of Southern California |
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Noël Alumit is an American novelist, actor, and activist. He was identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine in 2002.
He was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in Los Angeles, 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.
In addition to his writing, Alumit has worked as an HIV/AIDS educator with the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team in Los Angeles.
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.
His one-man show, The Rice Room: Scenes From a Bar, premiered in Santa Monica in 1999, and was later staged at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2000. It 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.
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