Tuxedomoon — Winston Tong & Bruce Geduldig Winston Tong (born 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an actor, playwright, visual artist, puppeteer, and singer-songwriter.
He is best known for his vocals in Tuxedomoon and for winning an Obie award in puppetry for Bound Feet in 1978.
Tong was born in the United States to Chinese parents exiled by the Communist revolution.
He graduated with a degree in theatre from the California Institute of Arts in 1973.
While at CalArts, he studied classical vocals with Marni Nixon.
In 1969, Tong was commissioned to illustrate The Dinosaur Coloring Book by Malcolm Whyte, which was first published by Troubador Press and later by Price Stern Sloan
Tong performed three of his solo pieces at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in April/May 1978.
The Wild Boys, identified on the show's program as a work in progress, incorporated work by William Burroughs, Brian Eno, George Olsen, Kawahara, Victoria Lowe, and Tuxedomoon. Bound Feet incorporated music by Erik Satie. À Rimbaud incorporated work by Arthur Rimbaud and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
He returned to La MaMa with Tuxedomoon bandmate Bruce Geduldig in 1978 to perform two pieces, Nijinsky (Fragments) from the diary of Vaslav Nijinsky with music by Frederic Chopin and Bound Feet (Reformed).
Frankie and Johnnie appeared in the 1981 documentary film Theater in Trance by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who shot the film at the Theaters of the World Festival in June 1981 in Cologne.
Geduldig directed himself and Tong in a production of Frankie and Johnnie at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1982
Blaine L. Reininger: Multi-instrumentalist (violin, guitar, keyboards) and vocalist. Steven Brown: Keyboards, saxophone, and lead vocals. Peter Principle (Peter Dachert): Bassist who joined in 1979 (deceased 2017). Winston Tong: A performance artist and vocalist who was involved in the early years. Bruce Geduldig: A filmmaker and visual artist who contributed vocals and percussion (deceased 2016).
Peter Murphy performing with Nine Inch Nails
