Dan Taulapapa McMullin

Samoan American playwright Dan Taulapapa McMullin has performed/produced work at New Zealand International Arts Festival, Pacific Festival of
the Arts in Samoa, University of the South Pacific in Fiji, University of Hawaii, New York University, Walker Art Center, and on TVNZ in New Zealand.

His sound installation "The Resurrection of Tigilau", with Marco Larsen, exhibited at Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco in 2002. He has been published in Take Out Anthology by Asian American Writers Workshop in
New York, One-Story Magazine, Best American Erotica 2001, and Bamboo Ridge in Hawaii. He was 2000-2001 Playwright-in-Residence with Asian American
Theatre Company in San Francisco, and Mid-Atlantic Arts Millennium Artist-in-Residence in American Samoa in 2000. Recipient of the Jerome Playwriting Fellowship for two years running, 1993-95, he has received
grants and fellowships also from Poets&Writers, The Loft, The McKnight Foundation, The California Arts Council, The American Samoa Arts Council,
The Rockefeller Foundation, The Playwrights’ Center, and was recently an Artist-in-Residence for the California Arts Council. His video short
"Sinalela", shot in Samoa, won the 2002 Rainbow Award for Best Short at the Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and was in installation at NYU's
/A/P/A Gallery winter of 2000. He collaborated on the
Pacific/Caribbean sovereignty text "Resistance in Paradise", which won the 1999 Gustavus
Meyers Humanitarian Book Award. A resident of Samoa and California, he is working on a novel.

Title: Sinalela
Show: Mom, Dad, I Have Something to Tell You





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