Mirah V. Lucas
Actor | Writer | Artist
Emerging Artist
Mirah V. Lucas is an emerging artist, working in theater and poetry. Their theater performances focus on Asian American diaspora, while their current writing focuses on uncovering and discovering their Pilipinx indigenous origin.
Artist CV
EDUCATION
American River College. Theater Studies.
California State University, Sacramento. B.A., Anthropology.ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2024 Artist-in-Residence, Kaimera Lab, Normandy, France
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CAAWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Emerging Artist Scholarship, Kaimera Lab, Normandy, France
2023 DEIJ Scholarship, Team BKP, Los Angeles, CA
2013 The James Irvine Foundation Honorary Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CAPERFORMANCES & READINGS
2024 Dessa / Tongue of a Bird, CLARA Showcase, Sacramento, CA
“Imagining Futures,” Site-Specific Performance, Normandy, France
2023 Reading at Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Connie / The Great Leap, Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra, Nevada City, CA
2022 Jing-Mei / The Joy Luck Club, Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra,
Nevada City, CA
2021 Lit Crawl / Litquake, Manny's Cafe, San Francisco, CA
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center x 24th Annual United States of Asian
America Festival: "Forging Our Futures: SOMA & Chinatown," San Francisco, CA
"Memory, Meaning and Memoir," San Francisco, CA
"Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color" Book Launch, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, San Francisco, CA
2020 3Girls Theatre Digital Salon Reading, San Francisco, CA
Pervers/Cité Festival, “I Feel Bad That You Felt Bad / You Felt Bad That I Feel
Bad,” Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Writers on the Air Distancing Project: Poetry from a Distance, Sacramento, CA
2019 Stephanie / The Eclipse, California Stage Showcase, Sacramento, CA
Pop-Up Poetry / Poetry Inspires Art at The Art Studios, Sacramento, CA
2015 Jack Kerouac Festival, Davis, CA
2010 Poetry in Davis at John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2006 Starring / The Vagina Monologues at The Geery Theatre, Sacramento, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 EPIC, Auto-Italia South East, London, UK
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
| 2020 "Navigating Poetics" with Truong Tran, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA |
| 2019 Theatre Masterclass with Janis Stevens |
| 2015 Sacramento Poetry Center Writers' Conference |
| 2012 SummerWords, the American River College Creative Writing Colloquium |
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Publications of Poetry in Journals:
| 2021 “A Story About Dad”: Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color |
| 2013 "Dead Frog," "Continental Drift," "Pushing into Apricots": Loud as a Whisper |
| 2010 “Women & Cigarettes”: phati’tude Literary Magazine |
| 2009 “The Facts About Hearts & Origami”: ITCH |
| 2007 “Separations”: Mumbles Literary Zine |
| 2005 “Night Into Day,” “NYC, 12:03 a.m.”: American River Review |
| 2004 “June 8, 2002 – June 29. 2002”: The Shore Magazine |
Selected Photography in Journals:
| 2009 “This is Where I Met J,” “In Twain”: Rio Grande Review |
| 2007 “(Re)morse Code,” “Separations,” “Il Termini”: Twixt Magazine |
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