QUI NGUYEN.
an award winning writer in theatre, film and TV and Co-Artistic Director of Vampire Cowboys.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Qui Nguyen is a playwright, screenwriter, and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys. His scripts include the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys productions of The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G; Soul Samurai; Alice in Slasherland; Fight Girl Battle World; Men of Steel; Living Dead in Denmark; Stained Glass Ugly; A Beginner's Guide to Deicide; Vampire Cowboy Trilogy; and most recently Six Rounds of Vengeance. Other scripts include Vietgone; She Kills Monsters ; Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin; Bike Wreck; Aliens Versus Cheerleaders; Trial By Water; and Krunk Fu Battle Battle. His plays are published by Samuel French, Broadway Play Publishing, and Playscripts.com.
Additionally, Qui is an award-winning fight director who has worked extensively as an instructor & choreographer for such places as Columbia University, LAByrinth Theater, Ma-Yi Theater, Long Wharf, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Public, HERE Arts Center, and many others.
Recent honors include a 2016 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program and a 2016 Steinberg Award (Vietgone).
Qui is a proud member of the WGA, The Dramatists Guild, The Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Playwrights Center, and an advanced actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He's an alumni of New Dramatists and Youngblood. For television, he's written for PBS's PEG+CAT and SYFY's Incorporated. He currently writes for Marvel Studios.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on July 20.
We’re encouraged by the world around us that we’re supposed to be studious and polite. But to break through barriers, it takes more than study and manners, it also takes assertiveness—demanding to be seen differently, demanding new roles to be seen in, demanding that these stories are ours. That’s what’s so great about doing work together with Vietgone and with Vampire Cowboys. We get to do what we want without asking. We just go there. Fuck manners.
an expletive-filled fusion of
HIP-HOP AND MARTIAL ARTS
with
SOAPY TWISTS AND TURNS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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