Collaborative Artist: Don Nguyen

Don Nguyen’s full-length plays include The Supreme Leader (World Premiere – Dallas Theater Center), Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (The Playwrights Realm), The Man from Saigon (A.C.T New Strands Festival, NYSAF Founders Award), Red Flamboyant (Firebone Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference), Sound (Azeotrope/ACT, BAPF), The Commencement of William Tan (Yale Cabaret, NYSAF). Don is the recipient of the 2015 GAP Prize from the Aurora Theatre, a New York Stage & Film Founder’s Award, and was a finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Princess Grace Award, and The Woodward International Playwriting Prize. Nominations include: the Laurents/Hatcher Award and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Don is a current 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. For more information, please visit: thenuge.com