Qui Nguyen
Qui Nguyen is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. Career. He is a playwright, TV and film writer, 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 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, 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. Qui is developing a musical commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts with songwriter Adam Gwon. As a screenwriter, Qui has written on AMC's "Dispatches from Elsewhere", Netflix's "The Society", Syfy's "Incorporated", and PBS's "Peg + Cat". He co-wrote Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Raya and the Last Dragon" along with Adele Lim and currently writing and  co-directing Disney Animation's 2022 film "Strange World". Publications. by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. by Playscripts, Inc. by Samuel French, Inc. His work is also included in various anthologies