Sandra Tsing Loh
(born 11 February 1962) is a Los Angeles, California-based writer, actress, performance-artist, pop-culture analyst, and radio commentator.
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Biography
Loh is the daughter of a
Chinese father
[1] and a
German mother. She was raised in
Malibu,
Southern California, and was bussed south to go to
Santa Monica High School, where she was active in the computer-engineering-related "Olive Starlight Orchestra", and founded the performance-arts group "Young Bureaucrats, Of Course (YBOC)".
[2] She also played violin in the Samohi school orchestra.
Loh graduated from
Caltech with a BS in
Physics, and returned in 2005 to deliver its
commencement speech. She is also a graduate of the
Master of Professional Writing Program at the
University of Southern California. Her early career as a performance artist included a piano concert on a freeway overpass in
Downtown Los Angeles, and one in which she distributed hundreds of one-dollar-bills. She went on to perform a number of well-received autobiographical one-woman shows, in which she developed a particular form of
observational humor. Her delivery style is generally ironic and spoken somewhat quickly.
Tsing Loh gained some national notoriety when
KCRW canceled her weekly radio commentary,
The Loh Life
after an engineer neglected to bleep her on-air utterance of the word "
fuck" during an essay on
knitting that aired on
22 February 2004.
[3] [4] The Loh Life
was soon after picked up by the other Los Angeles NPR affiliate,
KPCC. She currently produces an NPR segment entitled
The Loh-Down on Science
. She is a regular commentator on
NPR's
Morning Edition
,
PRI's
This American Life
, and other
public radio programs.
Loh is also the author of several books, including the semi-autobiographical
A Year in Van Nuys
. She has also written reviews of books about parenting,
feminism, and several other topics for
The Atlantic
, where she is a regular contributor. Loh appeared in yet another one-woman show, "Mother on Fire," at the 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles between October 2005 and March 2006. She made a brief cameo appearance in the
2006 film Unaccompanied Minors
.
[5] She is featured in the book
Part Asian, 100% Hapa
by artist
Kip Fulbeck.
Loh announced her divorce in a 2009 Atlantic Monthly essay. In describing an extramarital affair, she explained that her "commitment to monogamy . . . [had come] unglued."
[6]
Work
;Discography
- Pianovision
(1991) K2B2 Records
;Bibliography
References
- Caltech Commencement
- Marketplace Commentator Biography
- WHAT THE F...K?!
- Sandra Tsing Loh: Nuts To You
- Full cast and crew for ''Unaccompanied Minors'' (2006)
- On marriage: Let’s call the whole thing off