Qui Nguyen

Qui Nguyen is an American playwright screenwriter and director He is best known for his plays She Kills Monsters and Vietgone He is also known for writing Raya and the Last Dragon and Strange World He is a playwright TV writer and screenwriter and also 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 soldout 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 In 2019 he won the Porter Prize Nguyens 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 Beginners 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 MaYi Theater Companys Writers Lab He also began writing for Marvel Studios in 2016 His work with the Vampire Cowboys particularly in the staging of martial arts puppetry and multimedia use has been documented in a dissertation from the Drama Department at Tufts University In March 2019 he debuted Poor Yella Rednecks a sequel to Vietgone at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa CA In February 2020 he debuted Revenge Song a commissioned musical at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles Revenge Song is currently running at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland Oregon Nguyen is developing a musical commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts with songwriter Adam Gwon As a screenwriter Nguyen has written on AMCs Dispatches from Elsewhere Netflixs The Society Syfys Incorporated and PBSs Peg Cat He cowrote Walt Disney Animation Studios Raya and the Last Dragon along with Adele Lim and wrote and codirected Disney Animations 2022 film Strange World In 2024 he directed the feature documentary The Family Vietgone