Don Nguyen

Full length plays include: Red Flamboyant (World Premiere – Firebone Theatre Company 2015, 2015 GAP Prize Winner, Ojai Playwrights Conference, O’Neill finalist), Sound (Azeotrope/ACT, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Princess Grace Award finalist), The Commencement of William Tan (Yale Cabaret), The Man From Saigon (developed at A.C.T SF, Naked Angels, NYSAF), The Supreme Leader (developed at Roundabout, Labyrinth Theatre, and Ma-Yi) and Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (developed at Ma-Yi, The Playwrights Realm).  Don’s work has been developed or produced at The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Labyrinth Theatre, The Flea, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Stage & Film, Naked Angels, Naked Radio, The Civilians, Ma-Yi Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Joe’s Pub, The 52nd Street Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Tofte Lake.  Don is the recipient of the 2015 GAP Prize from the Aurora Theatre and New York Stage & Film Founder’s award and has been a finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Princess Grace Award, Woodward International Playwriting Prize, and New Dramatists. Nominations include: the Laurents/Hatcher award and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Don is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the Public Theater’s inaugural Emerging Writers Group, The Civilians inaugural R&D Group, the 52nd Street Project, and a co-founder of Mission to (dit)Mars, a Queens based theatre arts collective.

Plays

Red Flamboyant

The Man From Saigon

The Supreme Leader

Hello, From The Children Of Planet Earth

The Commencement Of William Tan

Sound

Three To Beam Up

The Imaginary Association Of Flight Attendants