Trà Nguyễn

Trà Nguyễn

Trà Nguyễn

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Trà Nguyễn develops "The Run – A Theater Project" in Vietnam. In February 2024, it is part of "Project Đẩy Sàn", a collaborative initiative that fosters learning, collaboration, and experimentation for emerging performance artists. Trà also writes science-informed film scripts.

Quick Facts:

Trà Nguyễn experiments with theater and builds frameworks to transfer such capacity. Former Acting Director of Sàn Art, the longest-running independent art space in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), she has contributed to various educational programs for visual art. Trà has earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University (US) on Fulbright scholarship. Her theater works, typically extremely slow-pacing, seek to open up and reside in the quieting space of attention. Her screenplays on the other hand reflect the osmosis of sciences in modern life, portraying the human struggle to connect in the digitally webbed world. She is currently based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where her independent initiative, "The Run - A Theater Project", seeks to build infrastructure for experimental theater-making via production, training, and critical discourse.

Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:

  • If Known Tell, If Not Tell Fortune | Theater performance | Ho Chi Minh City, 2023
  • Verbatim Bodies | Workshop | online, 2022
  • Theater on a cart | Collaborative theater work | Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo | Japan, 2021

Highest educational degree:

Master of Fine Arts, Dramatic Writing

Work samples:

If Known Tell, If Not Tell Fortune | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, March 2023

If Known Tell, If Not Tell Fortune | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, March 2023

Endgame workshop | Ho Chi Minh City, September 2022

Endgame workshop | Ho Chi Minh City, September 2022

Theater on a cart | Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo, Japan, September 2021

Theater on a cart | Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo, Japan, September 2021

3Ps: The Performer Performing the Performed | Za-Koenji theater, Tokyo, Japan, 2018

3Ps: The Performer Performing the Performed | Za-Koenji theater, Tokyo, Japan, 2018

The Run | Soul Live Project, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2018

The Run | Soul Live Project, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2018