Noël Alumit was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City in the Philippines then raised in the United States. He is and is addicted to chocolate. Due to his chocolate habit, Noel keeps in shape by running long distances. He has five marathons and a number of other races under his belt. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Southern California, studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players.
His play Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing was produced by Teatro Ng Tanan in San Francisco and also in in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Boston, and Philadelphia. He has had other plays read at East West Players in Los Angeles and the Ma Yi Theatre Company in New York.
His one-man show, The Rice Room: Scenes From a Bar, was voted one of the best solo shows of the year by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and played to sold-out houses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. He recently premiered his latest solo show, Master of the (Miss) Universe at Highways Performance Art Space in Santa Monica California. Master of the (Miss) Universe was named "Best Bet" by the Los Angeles Times.
He received an Emerging Voices Fellowship from PEN Center USA West and a Community Access Scholarship to UCLA's Writers Extension, studying fiction and the personal essay form. His work has been published in Tilting the Continent (New Rivers Press), Take Out (Asian American Writers Workshop/Temple University), and the literary journal DisOrient. His first novel is Letters to Montgomery Clift (Macadam Cage).
As an actor, Noel's film and TV credits include "Beverly Hills 90210", "The Young and the Restless", and "Red Surf". He has performed in many Los Angeles productions, including the world premiere of "Chay Yew's A Language of Their Own" (LA Weekly Award) and Michael Kearns' "Whose Afraid of Edward Albee".
Noel is most proud of his work preventing HIV infection in gay Asian men with the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team. He has been an employee with APAIT for nine years.
