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Biography
Qui Nguyen (born in El Dorado, AR) is a Vietnamese American playwright and fight director.
He is an artistic director of the Obie Award and Caffe Cino Award winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, whose productions, penned and choreographed by Nguyen, have performed to sold-out audiences at the New York International Fringe Festival, been published nationally in Plays and Playwrights 2005, enjoyed extended runs throughout the nation, and have been nominated for and received awards in movement and fight direction.
Qui's plays include Vietgone, Soul Samurai, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl Battle World, Krunk Fu Battle Battle, She Kills Monsters, Trial By Water, Living Dead in Denmark, Stained Glass Ugly, A Beginner's Guide to Deicide, Men of Steel, Bike Wreck, and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy. He is a member of New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Playwrights' Center, and the Ma-Yi Theater Company's Writers Lab. He also began writing for Marvel Studios in 2016. His work with the Vampire Cowboys, particularly in the staging of martial arts, has been documented in a dissertation from the Drama Department at Tufts University.
Publication
by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
- Fight Girl Battle World
- The Inexplicable Redemption Of Agent G
- Living Dead In Denmark
- Men Of Steel
- Soul Samurai
by Playscripts, Inc.
- Aliens vs Cheerleaders
- Alice in Slasherland
- A Beginner's Guide to Deicide
- Bike Wreck
- Trial By Water
- Vampire Cowboy Trilogy
by Samuel French, Inc.
- She Kills Monsters
- Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin
- Six Rounds of Vengeance
His work is also included in various anthologies