theater artist and filmmaker based in NYC.
Victoria Linchong has 10+ years experience in experimental theater and is now branching out into film.
As an actress, she most notably had a feature role in Jeff Weiss' Obie Award winning HOT KEYS at Naked Angels. Production credits include the premiere of several plays by James Purdy, among them SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS with Laurence Fishburne, and WILLIAMS GUIGNOL, the world premiere of two of Tennessee Williams' last short plays.
Victoria was Development Director of Theater for the New City from 1999-2005. She gave up her position to work on her own projects and since then wrote, directed and produced a short film, DOUBLE DEALING, which was a finalist in the 2nd Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout sponsored by Asian Cinevision and MTV. She has also written two scripts: GILDED CAGE, which won 2nd Prize in the Suspense/Thriller category at the Indie Gathering Film Festival and placed as Quarter Finalist in the L.A. Fade In Awards; and OBSOLESCENCE, which made it to the finals of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Slamdance Screenplay Contest, the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus AND the Boston International Film Festival Script to Screen contest.
In 2006, Victoria founded a new intercultural theater and film company, Direct Arts, which has since received support from Lower Manhattan Community Council, Asian American Arts Alliance and the Puffin Foundation.
Victoria Linchong has 10+ years experience in experimental theater and is now branching out into film.
As an actress, she most notably had a feature role in Jeff Weiss' Obie Award winning HOT KEYS at Naked Angels. Production credits include the premiere of several plays by James Purdy, among them SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS with Laurence Fishburne, and WILLIAMS GUIGNOL, the world premiere of two of Tennessee Williams' last short plays.
Victoria was Development Director of Theater for the New City from 1999-2005. She gave up her position to work on her own projects and since then wrote, directed and produced a short film, DOUBLE DEALING, which was a finalist in the 2nd Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout sponsored by Asian Cinevision and MTV. She has also written two scripts: GILDED CAGE, which won 2nd Prize in the Suspense/Thriller category at the Indie Gathering Film Festival and placed as Quarter Finalist in the L.A. Fade In Awards; and OBSOLESCENCE, which made it to the finals of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Slamdance Screenplay Contest, the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus AND the Boston International Film Festival Script to Screen contest.
In 2006, Victoria founded a new intercultural theater and film company, Direct Arts, which has since received support from Lower Manhattan Community Council, Asian American Arts Alliance and the Puffin Foundation.
- vlinchon@earthlink.net
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