Workshop Performance by Allan Samson Manalo
Saturday, February 1, 2025
In Bituin is a semi-autobiographical performance about a Filipino American comic in search of his cultural identity and finds the love of his life in Manila only to tragically lose her 29 years later to cancer. The title is a play on the words "in-between" using the Pilipino word bituin meaning stars to describe the spaces between the light of his cultural identity and now, the darkness of his enduring grief.
Co-presented by Balay Kreative
About the Artist
A. Samson Manalo is a Filipino American writer, director, producer, and stand-up comic, who has performed throughout 46 States and 3 countries. Along with his wife Joyce, he ushered in the Filipinx era of Bindlestiff Studio, a San Francisco black box theater in the heart of SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural District. His most recent published work, GOSSIP, SEX, AND THE END OF THE WORLD: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF TONGUE IN A MOOD is a documentation of that story.