Playwright Background

Qui Nguyen is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and a proud resident artist at New Dramatists in New York. His work, known for creative incorporation of pop-culture, puppetry, multimedia, and stage violence, has been lauded by the New York Times as “Culturally Savvy Comedy.” The Chicago Tribune praised Nguyen as a “refreshing, break-the-rules writer” and Time Out Chicago honored She Kills Monsters as one of the 10 Best Plays of 2013.

He is Co-Founder of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys of NYC, which is often credited for being one of the pioneers in “geek theatre.” The company also has the unique distinction of the being the first and currently only professional theatre organization to be officially sponsored by NY Comic Con.

Honors include a 2013 Sundance Theatre Lab Fellowship; a 2013 AATE Distinguished Play Award (She Kills Monsters); 2012 & 2009 GLAAD Media Award nominations (She Kills Monsters and Soul Samurai); 2008 & 2006 NY Innovative Theatre Award noms for Best Production (Fight Girl Battle World and Living Dead in Denmark); 2012 ITBA Patrick Lee Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Show & 2010 nom in the same category (She Kills Monsters and Alice In Slasherland); named a 2012 TCG Young Leader of Color; 2007 Comiccritique.com citation for Best Adaptation of Comics into other Media (Men of Steel); 2004 NYTheatre.com’s People of the Year; and cited as a “Downtown Playwright to Watch” by Time Out New York.

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