Diana Oh

Diana Oh (September 29, 1986 – June 17, 2025), also known as Zaza,

Early life and education Oh was born Yea Bin Oh on September 29, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, to professors who had emigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in the 1970s. They attended Beverly Hills High School before earning a degree in theater at Smith College in 2008 and an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.

From 2014 to 2017, Oh staged My Lingerie Play (stylized as {my lingerie play}), a series of 10 art/performance installations at public areas and small theatres in New York and Washington D.C., as well as on the internet. In the initial eight performances, Oh stood on a soapbox wearing just their underwear, a black hat, and sunglasses, holding two brown paper bags on which they had written about slut-shaming, street harassment, and violence against women. Some performances involved additional people, The show began with Oh in a bathrobe on a soapbox with paper bags inviting the audience to write messages on their own bags. human sexuality and sexual harassment, It involved, among other activities, staging "Chosen Family Portraits" with the audience and planting trees at Harvard University. and Gretchen in the play Georgia Mertching is Dead, While at The Public Theatre, Oh developed and first performed their play My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre. For the 2024 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, Oh wrote and directed the play A Rare Bird. Oh and playwright Lloyd Suh were commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company in 2023 to write a musical titled The Science Fair Project, which was still in progress at the time of Oh's death. They also identified as a witch. 2015 Chimerica Assorted characters 2016 A 24-Decade History of Popular Music Dandy Minion 2019 Clairvoyance 2019, 2020 My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre 2024 A Rare Bird Writer/director, credited as Zaza Diana Oh Filmography