Sandra Tsing Loh
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| Sandra Tsing Loh | |
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| Born | 11 February 1962 |
| Occupation | Actress, author |
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Sandra Tsing Loh (born 11 February 1962) is a Los Angeles, California-based author, actress and radio commentator.
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[edit] Biography
Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father[1] and a German mother who was raised in Southern California. She 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 performer included a piano concert on a freeway overpass in Downtown Los Angeles. She went on to perform autobiographical one-woman shows, which have been well received, in which she developed a particular form of observation humor. Her delivery style is generally ironic and spoken very quickly.
She gained some national notoriety when KCRW cancelled 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. 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.
She is also the author of several books, including the semi-autobiographical A Year in Van Nuys. The title is a parody of the title of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence, though Tsing Loh points out that Van Nuys is not as glamorous as southern France. She has also written reviews of books about parenting, feminism, and several other topics for The Atlantic. She appeared in a one-woman show "Mother on Fire" at the 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles from October 2005 to March 2006. She made a brief cameo appearance in the 2006 film Unaccompanied Minors.[2]
As of 2008 Loh's children attend Van Nuys High School.[3]
[edit] Work
- Discography
- Pianovision (1991) K2B2 Records
- Bibliograpy
- Loh, Sandra Tsing (2001). A Year in Van Nuys. Crown. ISBN 0609608126.
- Loh, Sandra Tsing (1997). If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now. Riverhead Hardcover. ISBN 157322068X.
- Loh, Sandra Tsing (1997). Aliens in America. Riverhead Books. ISBN 1573226270.
- Loh, Sandra Tsing (1996). Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays From Lesser Los Angeles. Riverhead Hardcover. ISBN 1573220310.
[edit] References
- ^ Caltech Commencement
- ^ Full cast and crew for Unaccompanied Minors (2006). The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-12-24.
- ^ Loh, Sandra Tsing. "Tales Out of School." The Atlantic. 1.
[edit] External links
- Sandra Tsing Loh official website
- The Loh Life Audio archive of her radio commentaries at KPCC-FM
- The Loh Down Audio archives of her radio commentaries on the public radio program, Marketplace
- 2005 Caltech commencement speech
