Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord

🏆PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST in DRAMA!
🏆Lucille Lortel Award Winner for “Outstanding Solo Show”!
🏆Outer Critics Circle Winner for “Outstanding Solo Show”!
🏆Drama Desk Awards Winner for “Outstanding Solo Show”!
🏆Off-Broadway Alliance Awards Nominee for “Outstanding Solo Show”!
✍️NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS PICK! “A spiky tonic!”

Born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristina Wong‘s newest performance art piece unfolding during the pandemic details how she went from out-of-work artist to overlord of a homemade face mask empire in just ten days! With her trademark wit, she charts the process of building a sweatshop of hundreds of volunteer “Aunties”—including children and her own mother—to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine. Wong hilariously unpacks the American Dream, America’s pursuit of global empire at the cost of its citizens, and the significance of women of color performing a historically gendered and racialized invisible labor at a time of heightened anti-Asian racism in the U.S.

This project was developed in the pandemic through live Zoom performances and premiered off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop.