About Naomi Ko (writer and performer): Naomi Ko is a Korean American writer, actor, and filmmaker from Minnesota who also happens to be cursed. She’s totally chill with her cursed existence that she created a one-woman-show and a TV series about it. Naomi’s previous credits include her pilot, Nice, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. You’ve seen her perform around town. Naomi’s a 2023 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellow, a 2022 Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow, a Bush Leadership Fellow, and more. The TV adaptation of The 20-Year Curse was selected for the 2022 Sundance Episodic Lab.

Kat Evasco (director): Kat Evasco is queer immigrant from the Philippines, and is an award-winning writer, theatermaker, filmmaker, and cultural strategist committed to honoring and celebrating the experiences of immigrants, women and LGBTQ communities. Evasco was recently awarded the Gerbode Foundation Theater Awards (2022) and the Kenneth Rainin New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program Grant (2020) towards the premiere of her new play Be Like Water produced by Brava Theater in San Francisco. Building on the success of her autobiographical one-woman show Mommy Queerest co-written by John Caldon, Evasco supports artists to produce solo shows. Evasco’s solo theater projects include directing Prieto by Yosimar Reyes and Not My First Pandemic by Cesar Cadabes, which received Best One Man Show and All About Solo Critics Award at United Solo Festival 2021. Most recently, she co-directed Rag Head: An American Story by Sundeep Morrison, winner of Best Drama at the 2022 United Solo Festival.

About Funny Asian Women Kollective: The best pan-Asian female-identifying comedic group in the world. No cap. Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK) was founded in 2014 by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, May Lee-Yang, and Naomi Ko to combat the invisibility and dehumanization of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) women using humor and comedy. Learn more about FAWK at fawkollective.com.

This show is a collaboration between Go Ko Go Productions and FAWK.

*Please contact the team at info@konaomi.com if you have any accessibility needs. 

The 20-Year Curse was supported in part by Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Program with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Naomi Ko is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

This work is funded in part by the Minnesota Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.