Biography

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. Since 2018, Trà initiated ‘The Run – A Theater Project’, seeking to build infrastructure for experimental theater-making. Her theater works and workshops engage various elements of theater, performance, and visual art to explore the possibilities of performances. She has staged a number of works in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Tokyo. Trà has earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University (US) on Fulbright scholarship. She is Visiting Faculty for Introduction to Theater and Performance at Fulbright University in Autumn 2023.