Dr.
Arlene Malinowski: BIO
As actor and playwright Arlene views her solo work as an artistic
extension of the social justice work she has been committed to for the last twenty years.
She has been performing her four critically acclaimed solo shows, about her experiences growing up a hearing daughter
in a Deaf family & culture, to sold out houses across the country: including
St Louis Center, Las Vegas Cultural Center, National Center on Deafness, Ojai Solo Series, HBO Workspace, and colleges nationwide.
Her latest solo show “Aiming for Sainthood” was commissioned
and produced by 16th Street Theater.
Her solo work has been honored with a Garland
Award and nominations for a LA Weekly Award and LA Theatre Ovation award. As
an actor she has appeared in the word premiere of “The Music of the Spheres” at the Goodman Theatre in
Chicago. Favorite
roles in LA include “Lovers and Other Strangers”, “Chapter Two”, “One Flew
Over the Cuckoos Nest” with Deaf West, and the critically acclaimed “Solos in Harmony” and “In
A Different Voice”. Most recently her work was named among the 5 best solo shows in Chicago
by Windy City.
Arlene is also a writer/performer with the nationally touring, multicultural show “A Slice
of Rice, Frijoles & Greens” which was honored with the White House Award for the Initiative on Race. Television
credits include guest starring on: CSI, ER, The Practice, The X Files, Any Day Now, The Division, Diagnosis Murder and the CBS movie, Sweet Nothing in
My Ear. As a spoken word artist she has performed at Victory Gardens Biograph, 2nd Story, in Chicago and Tasty
Words, Word-a-rama, Word Nerd, and Sit and Spin in Los Angeles. She produces a spoken word salon called Speak Easy-Speak Hard..
She teaches solo writing/performing in L.A., S.F. and Chicago and privately coaches individual artists. . Her numerous solo students have been honored with Garland Awards, special recognition at Edinburgh
Fringe, LA Weekly Nominations, FEM Finalists and numerous “Critics picks”.
She has been a contributing writer for “Selling Lemonade for Free” and “The Week
Behind”. She is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists
and Artist in Residence at the 16th Street
Theatre. Her newest play “Anonymous Donor” about sperm banks, technology
and a mean girl will have a reading this winter.
