Victoria Linchong
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a Taiwanese-American theater and film maker, born and raised in New York City. I also write cultural essays and theater/film reviews for a variety of publications and internet sites including www.nytheatre.com. I've been involved in Obie Award winning productions, produced several plays by the great writer James Purdy and written a screenplay that placed in the finals of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus AND the Slamdance Screenplay Contest. (Maybe this blog should be called Close but No Banana.) Recent productions include a multimedia performance of PAPER ANGELS by Genny Lim, which performed outdoors in San Francisco and won Best of the San Francisco Fringe. I'm also in post-production for the documentary ALMOST HOME: TAIWAN. I was Development Assistant at Film Forum and Grants Manager at Theatre for a New Audience. |
| Interests | Theater, film, 19th Century literature, classic American literature, history, language, sociology, unpretentious unsentimental incisive art of any and all kind |
| Favorite movies | To Live, Pigs and Battleships, Indochine, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Devil on the Doorstep, Goodbye Lenin!, Tout Le Matiin du Monde, Satyricon, Los Olvidados, Some Came Running, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Roman Holiday, Sullivan's Travels, Out of the Past, everything by Kurosawa |
| Favorite music | Jazz before 1950, little known 1960s psychadelic garage bands from random places like Cambodia or Belize |
| Favorite books | James Purdy's In a Shallow Grave, Narrow Rooms and Eustace Chisholm & the Works; Leaves of Grass, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Le Grand Meaulnes, Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, 100 Years of Solitude |