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Don Nguyen

DON NGUYEN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Don Nguyen (Playwright) Full-length plays include RED FLAMBOYant (Ojai Playwrights Conference, finalist - O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Bay Area Playwrights Festival), THE MAN FROM SAIGON (NYSAF 2012 Founders Award, Naked Angels - Angels in progress workshop), THE COMMENCEMENT OF WILLIAM TAN (finalist - Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2G Jumpstart Commission, NYSAF reading), SOUND (Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Civilians R&D reading) and THREE TO BEAM UP (The Shelterbelt Theatre, Nebraska Arts Grant recipient). Don is a founding member of Mission to (dit)Mars, a Queens based theatre arts collective, a current member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and is a frequent volunteer for the 52nd Street Project

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         Bloodsucker         Commencement Of William Tan, The         Cooking With Julia         Da Beh         Decision of Extraordinary Magnitude         Dragon Lord and the Fairy Queen, The         Fat Ugly Vampire         Girl Struck         Girl, Reflected         Harlequin Maneuvre         Hello, From The Children Of Planet Earth         Holiday Stucco         Imaginary Association Of Flight Attendants, The         Iron Chef: Battle of the Global Cuisine         Look, A Lion         Man from Saigon, The         man.kind         MJ/G8         Red Flamboyant         Rocket Boys         Sext Therapy         Soulmates         Sound         Supreme Leader, The         Survivor Down Under         Tanbou Silan         Three To Beam Up         Tommy Volt and the Lightning Girl         Torture         Woman In The Blue Dress, The
Bloodsucker

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A succubus has five men held captive and is drinking their blood

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Commencement Of William Tan, The

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William Tan a High School top athlete and is dating the girl of his dreams. He drives a flashy car. When a racial conflict erupts between his best white friend and a Vietnamese-American childhood friend he is forced to look at what it means to be Chinese-American and American

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finalist - Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2G Jumpstart Commission, NYSAF reading

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Cooking With Julia

Synopsis:
A Julia Child cookery programme that never aired - the one about cannibalism

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Da Beh

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Decision of Extraordinary Magnitude

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A playwright tied to a chair is forced to come to terms with his cultural identity

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Dragon Lord and the Fairy Queen, The

Synopsis:
The heroics and sacrifices of the Dragon Lord and Fairy Queen

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Fat Ugly Vampire

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Megan and Phillip are friends with benefits. Phillip says he is in love with Megan. Megan turns him down - after all he is a fat ugly vampire

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Girl Struck

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Girl, Reflected

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Inspired by the Aesop Fable "The Man, The Boy And The Donkey"

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Harlequin Maneuvre

Synopsis:
A man enters a romance novel he has been reading. He gets two characters Fabreze and Jezebel to react his breakup with his girlfriend

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Hello, From The Children Of Planet Earth

Synopsis:
Betsy and Shoshana are trying to have a baby. William and Freddy are trying to ensure that Voyager 1 makes it to interstellar space. The oldest explorer in the Universe looks on

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Holiday Stucco

Synopsis:
Holiday Stucco will feature new one-act plays by members of the Public theater's Emerging Writers Group including playwrights Nikole Beckwith, Chris Craigin Day, Deen, Sevan Kaloustian Green, Aaron Wigdor Levy, Mona Mansour, Don Nguyen, Jerome Parker, Stalla Fawn Ragsdale, Akin Salawu, and Pia Wilson. Every winter holiday is up for grabs in this seasonal spectacular!
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85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     15 Dec 2011

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Imaginary Association Of Flight Attendants, The

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Four flight attendants

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Devised piece

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Iron Chef: Battle of the Global Cuisine

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Julia Child turns up on a Japanese cookery programme

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Look, A Lion

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Man from Saigon, The

Synopsis:
Fifteen years after the end of the Vietnam War a South Vietnamese Naval Officer goes back to try and get his brother out of a North Vietnamese re-education camp

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Rewritten version of "Hand Of Father"

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man.kind

Synopsis:
Dalfede is trying to escape the unwanted attentions of Lothat. She turns to Credo but Credo cannot make up his mind whether to smoke weed or save Dalfede

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MJ/G8

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Red Flamboyant

Synopsis:
Mrs. Hue lives in present day Vietnam with a small group of women who are all living with HIV/AIDS. Bricks smash the windows of her small house. The locals fear they will be infected by the women. Mrs Hue is forced to seek help from a stubborn government official to protect and support her group. Unlikely heroes emerge both in this world and the next as these poor women reach new heights of courage.

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Anderson Hall at Calvary St. George's (61 Gramercy Park North), NY     24 Apr 2015

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AIDS, full length

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Rocket Boys

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Brothers Franky and Barry get tired of living in their parents basement playing video games and decide to build a Mars rocket ship

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Sext Therapy

Synopsis:
Couple Dan and Christina go to see sex therapist Dr Scott - but she is a different type of therapist

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Formerly entitled "Love 160"

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Soulmates

Synopsis:
Even after death soulmates should be together as Steven finds out when his dead girl friend turns up

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Sound

Synopsis:
Martha's Vineyard. Alexander Graham Bell makes a study of deaf in the hopes he can find a cure for deafness. A hundred and thirty years later a deaf father is battling with his hearing ex-wife over whether to let their deaf daughter get a cochlear implant

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Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Civilians R&D reading)

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Supreme Leader, The

Synopsis:
The young Kim Jong-Un is attending an International School is Switzerland. He befriends Sophie under the guise of toning his spying skills. The more he spies on her the more he realises what a friend she is

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Survivor Down Under

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Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin comes across the members of "Survivor 2" a television reality programme who have eaten all the crew

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Tanbou Silan

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The earthquake in Haiti

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Three To Beam Up

Synopsis:
John Wisher believes he is a Star Ship captain and has been ordered to rescue a woman he does not know. His son Sam and daughter Jules are trying to help him before he tips over into insanity. Sam enlists a strange and mysterious Dr Von Heizenberg

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The Shelterbelt Theatre, Nebraska Arts Grant recipient

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Comedy

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Tommy Volt and the Lightning Girl

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Tommy Volt rock star battles Lightning Girl to keep his secret rock star powers

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Torture

Synopsis:
Dr Frankincense runs down a woman with his car. He decides to bring her back to life, marry her and have her wait on him hand and foot.

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Woman In The Blue Dress, The

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A woman keeps dreaming she is wearing a blue dress and being pursued by killers. Then it happens in real life

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