ALOK
ALOK is the name Alok Vaid-Menon performs under. Their own site describes them as a poet, comedian, public speaker and actor, and they use they/them pronouns. They grew up in College Station, Texas, and studied at Stanford University.
Their books include Beyond the Gender Binary, Femme in Public and Your Wound, My Garden. Their first comedy special, Biology!, was executive produced by Christopher Guest. They're also the subject of the documentary short ALOK, executive produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Alex Hedison, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. They've performed in more than 40 countries, with sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Netflix Is A Joke Festival.
On TV they've appeared in HBO's The Sex Lives of College Girls and Hulu's Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne. The ACLU of Southern California gave them its Bill of Rights Award, and the University of Pennsylvania chose them as its first LGBTQ scholar in residence.
Their touring show is Eat Pray Leave. The Edinburgh Fringe listed it as a stand-up solo show about love, heartbreak and the end times. ALOK is billed at an upcoming Los Angeles date, and the dates we list for them appear further down this page.
Alok Vaid-Menon is a comedian, writer, and performance artist known for their powerful work on gender, identity, and self-expression through humor and poetry.
Bio from ALOK official site