Review: "Emil Amok" Spans Generations, Voices, and Identities
Emil Amok: Lost NPR Host, Wiley Filipino, Vegan Transdad Written and performed by Emil Amok Guillermo Presented at UNDER St. Marks 94 St. Marks Place, Manhattan, NYC April 5-21, 2024 Emil Amok Guillermo. Photo courtesy of the artist. Weaving together biography with the twentieth-century history of American colonialism in the Philippines, Emil Amok: Lost NPR Host, Wiley Filipino, Vegan Transdad is part stand-up comedy, part pathos-infused monologue. In the production, Emil tells the story of his father’s immigration to the United States and subsequent exclusion from American society as well as his own life as a white-sounding first-generation American whose seeming successes in graduating from Harvard and in broadcast journalism are belied by more subtle but nonetheless very present racism and discrimination. Emil Amok is part of the 2024 New York City Fringe Festival, which features 46 plays over multiple venues and gives 100% of its ticket sales to its artists. Additionally, a por