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Tra Nguyen

an experimental theater-maker based in Vietnam

Trà Nguyễn is a theater-maker working across text, movement and space. Her practice bridges contemporary performance, experimental writing and embodied research into memory, language and diasporic kinship. A Fulbright scholar with an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon, Trà founded The Run — A Theater Project, which builds experimental theater infrastructure in Vietnam through production, training and critical discourse. She develops Verbatim Bodies, a methodology that frames theater as a space for attention, translating gesture, breath and slow-time repetition into materials and modes of perception.

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Essay

Taking Care, Taking Risks

17 September 2025

Ada Mukhina sits down with global artists and theatremakers—Kiyo Gutiérrez from Mexico, Teddy Mangawa from Zimbabwe, Dijana Milošević from Serbia, and Trà Nguyễn from Vietnam—to discuss their strategies for incorporating both care and risk in performance. 

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