Shannon deJong is a San Francisco-based performance artist, writer, dancer and linguist who performs in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southwest.
deJong has repeat performances with Mortified SF, appeared in “Joy of Lex,” a documentary on language for The Discovery Channel, and has had several poetry readings in Northern California.
A theater performer for nearly 2 decades, deJong draws on her background of dance, competitive gymnastics, creative writing, street performance, world travel and theater to explore the intersection of identity, culture and spirituality.
In her fast-paced one woman show, “Burst” (2009), deJong uses her own experience with Bipolar 2 to explore the impact of contemporary American culture on mental health in a devastatingly honest, no-holds-barred investigation of “madness,” medication, modern life, and Generation “Me.”
She has a BA from University of California, Berkeley, in both Linguistics and Mass Communications, and has studied at ACT San Francisco.
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“Shannon is not an ordinary human being… She has the spunk of Punky Brewster, the mind of General Patton, and the awkward neuroticism of Woody Allen. She approaches life and comedy with intense fervor, and fuses [them] into an entertaining and inspiring stage presence. Shannon makes a crowd feel simultaneously entertained and curious. She is lively, honest — full of piss and vinegar.” –Scott Lifton, producer of Mortified SF
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