Noel Alumit is an actor, Los Angeles Times bestselling author, and Buddhist pastor. 

He wrote the novels Letters to Montgomery Clift and Talking to the Moon.  He was the recipeint of an Emerging Voices fellowship from PEN America and a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. His work has been nominated for the PEN, the Lambda Literary award and the Southern California Book Award. Recently, he was awarded a 2020-21 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artists Fellowship.

He recieved his BFA in Acting from USC and MDiv in Buddhist Chaplaincy from the University of the West.

Noel's literary respresentation is Albert Zuckerman at Writers House.

Noel's theatrical and commercial representation is Michael Zanuck at the Michael Zanuck agency. 

Follow Noel on his blog: THE LAST NOEL.

UPDATES:

 --Noel' short story The Positive Effects of Yoga was recently published in Story Quarterly (Rutgers University). The story is about a man trying to find balance when his marriage fails.  Enjoy.

--#STOPASIANHATE

To deepen discussion on crimes against Asian Americans, Noel is offering a FREE PDF of his second novel Talking to the Moon. The book explores a Filipino family's response to a hate crime. Please email noelalumit@hotmail.com for a copy.    

--Please join Noel every Friday at 2pm, PST, for Meditate/Create

--A monologue from Noel's solo show "The Rice Room" has been reimagined using puppet. It is AWESOME:  Go-Go Greg.

--Check out this interview with Noel on the Kababayan podcast.

--Noel is quoted in this article in the LA Times dealing with a topic very close to me: the gentrification of Historic Filipinotown.