DISoriented: A trio of Middle Eastern & Asian American Women

About DISoriented

"DISoriented" is a trio of Middle Eastern and Asian American 
women. Featuring solo performances and short films starring 
Coke Nakamoto (left), Thao P. Nguyen (bottom right), and 
Zahra Noorbakhsh (top right). Directed by Martha Rynberg 
and developed in the Solo Performance Workshop and with 
W. Kamau Bell.

Cultural indigestion, color-blindness and inter-ethnic vertigo. 
Is there a cure? Is it treatable? Is it contagious? That’s what 
three women, Zahra, Thao and Coke — Iranian, Vietnamese 
and Okinawan/Japanese — try to find out as they aim to 
DIS-orient themselves from external stereotypes and internal expectations.

This show features a dynamic trio of performers whose solo 
pieces and short films will lead you across a Muslim-Atheist 
supper table, the Mekong Delta, and Diagnostic Systems of 
Sexual Dysfunction. The show will leave you happy to be as 
DIS-oriented as the trio is!

Photos by: Elizabeth Griffin (left, bottom right) and David Allen (top right). Pictured: Coke Nakamoto (left), Zahra Noorbakhsh (top right), Thao P. Nguyen (bottom right).