Q&A with Lulu Fall, Diana Oh & Alysia Reiner. Storytellers on Creativity During Quarantine
LULU FALL is a singer, award-winning songwriter and actor currently based in New York. Lulu, a formally trained jazz vocalist with a musical theatre background, is one complete and unexpected package. As a product of Senegalese and Cameroonian parentage, her music reflects her global perspective by way of her American sensibilities. Because Lulu has a background in musical theatre, she alternates between that and music. Among other shows, she was a performer in the Smithsonian’s American Songbook Program, and ensemble member in Studio Theatre’s adaptation of Passing Strange. She was also a featured ensemble member in the acclaimed hippie love-rock musical HAIR, both the first National tour and Broadway. Her off-broadway credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, the acclaimed Porn musical Pretty Filthy, and acclaimed folk-opera Hadestown. Lulu portrayed the character of Brenda in Capital Repertory’s production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe in Albany. Lulu was most recently in Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, and the off-Broadway productions of This Ain't No Disco and Wild Goose Dreams.
DIANA OH (They/She) is a Generative Artist, Performer, Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Actor, and Creator of Live Event, Installation, Concert, Ritual, and Party. Driven most by pleasure and mutual care, Oh is a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer and the First Queer Korean-American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio, the Creator of The Infinite Love Party: an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party and sleepover for QTPOC and Their Allies (“the joyous freedom to be yourself no matter what pronouns you use” - The New York Times, and the creator of {my lingerie play}: ten underground performance installations in my lingerie staged in an effort to provide a safer, more courageous world for women, queer, trans, and non-binary humans to live in with touring national installations in Times Square, The White House, NOLA, and a rest stop in Virginia - the series culminates in a concert in her lingerie that has garnered Oh with the title of “A Supernova” by Vulture.
ALYSIA REINER Award winning actress and producer ALYSIA REINER is best known as Natalie “Fig” Figueroa on NETFLIX’s hit ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, for which she won an ensemble SAG award and you can see her in all 7 Seasons. Reiner joined the cast of HBO’s THE DEUCE for season 2, returned for season 3, and you can see her in all 4 seasons of FX’s critically acclaimed Peabody Award winning BETTER THINGS, streaming now on HULU. Additionally she has guest starred and recurred on some cult favorite shows like DA Parks on HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, BROAD CITY (Emmy award winning episode), BLACKLIST, ALL RISE, ODD MOM OUT & MASTERS OF SEX.
Her motherhood dark-comedic feature EGG, which she produced and stars in with Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp, premiered at Tribeca film festival, is 100% FRESH on Rotten tomatoes and available on iTunes, Amazon & VOD Now. Additionally, Alysia produced and starred in EQUITY, the first female driven Wall Street movie, bought/distributed by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance 2016. You may also know her from feature films like Sideways, 5 Flights up, Kelly and Cal, Shine, Fort Tilden, Kissing Jessica Stein, or countless other indie films and TV shows (and yes you have seen her on all of the Law & Orders multiple times).