He is also an actor and producer, known for the short films The Legend of My Heart Shaped Anus (2008), Lock Her Room (2003), and Recession Lemons (2010).
[5][6] D'Lo's work has been published in several anthologies and academic journals including Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asia America and Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic.
[11] D'Lo studied ethnomusicology at UCLA, and later received a degree from SAE Institute's New York School of Audio Engineering.
The process of coming out evolved over time when the language and rhetoric of his community, which honored more complex notions of identity, caught on in popular culture.
Following this collaboration, D'Lo's writing became more introspective, and his work started addressing queer and transgender issues.
D'Lo asks questions like "How the hell do we want to grow up as queer people, to survive, with respect to community politics?"
"[8] In his shows, he also seeks to address personal issues such as his struggle with religion, family, and transgender identity.
In Ramble-Ations, he performs as five different characters, seeking to illustrate the challenge new immigrants have of expressing their traditions and culture in America through personal stories.
At the end of the show, Amma realizes that she should accept D'Lo's transgender identity because she loves him and he is her son.
[7] Asia Pacific Performance Exchange invited D'Lo to participate in an international three-week intensive residency in Bali that focused on American and Asian artists through UCLA's Center for Intercultural Performance; He acted in Cherrie Moraga's new play Digging Up the Dirt.