Bio:

Annie Nguyễn (any pronouns) is a dramaturg, poet-playwright, and sound designer exploring non-western ways of making. 

She’s a feral word DJ and sound poet intimate with process. As a new play dramaturg she tailors development to each cast she encounters. As a designer she brings a new iteration of the soundscape every day to rehearsal for the room to interact with. Annie made her off-Broadway debut as dramaturg on One Day Down (Samantha Ozeas) at the Connelly Theatre in New York City. She most recently explored postcolonial scholarship and metaphysics on Passage (Christopher Chen). 

Theatre is not the only vessel for her collectivist ethos. Annie produces civic-minded events with TEDx, like an interview series showcasing CMU’s Black academics, a speaker series for Pittsburgh’s food culture, and a BIPOC standup comedy show. Her current project is building a reference library to address the absence of Asian Studies at Carnegie Mellon. Her facilitation, dedication to craft, and Southern hospitality made her the youngest 2022 Cody Renard Richard Scholar.

Annie will earn a dual degree in Dramaturgy & Creative Writing. She is a decorated poet as the single recipient of the Bart & Kathleen Astor Award and the Pauline B. Adamson Award for her collection Love in a Footnote.

You can find her criticism published with The Public Theater NYC and TheaterMania. And you can find her with a sharp mezcal in Houston, Texas where she calls home.