Donna Oblongata is an award-winning performer, social practice artist, and writer based in Philadelphia. Her work has been described as, "big, bold, and endlessly impressive" - Baltimore City Paper and, “balancing on the thrilling precipice of pleasure and danger” – New Orleans Box Office. She has performed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Ars Nova (NY), and shared the stage with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Slava’s Snow Show.
Donna's work has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and more. As a performer, she has toured her own work internationally for almost two decades.