Noel Alumit

[1] He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Southern California and later studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players.

[4] Alumit's play Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing was produced by Teatro Ng Tanan in San Francisco and also in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Boston, and Philadelphia.

[5] His one-man show, The Rice Room: Scenes From a Bar, premiered in Santa Monica in 1999,[6] and was later staged at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2000.

His work has also been published in Tilting the Continent (New Rivers Press), Take Out (Asian American Writers Workshop/Temple University), Subterraneans, DisOrient, and Lion's Roar.

Alumit received an Emerging Voices Fellowship from PEN Center USA West[1] and a Community Access Scholarship to UCLA's Writers Extension, studying fiction and the personal essay form.