Trà Nguyễn experiments with theater and builds frameworks to transfer such capacity. Her theater works, typically extremely slow-paced, seek to open up and reside in the quieting space of attention. She earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University (US) on a Fulbright scholarship, and has presented her plays and workshops in Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and the US. Currently based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Trà Nguyễn builds infrastructure for experimental theater-making via production, training, and critical discourses with her initiative, The Run – A Theater Project. She also writes screenplays to reflect the osmosis of sciences in modern life, portraying the human struggles to connect in the digitally webbed world.
At a time characterized by polarization and distrust, the need for approaches that humanize others through narrative and empathy has never been greater. The Lab is dependent on outside funding in order to make our work possible.
