Chi Nguyen

CHI NGUYEN was born in Vietnam and currently based in Melbourne, Chi Nguyen’s credits at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) include Mother Courage in Mother Courage (dir. Chris Kohn), Jackie in The Boys (dir. Alister Smith) and Masha in The Three Sisters (dir. Melanie Beddie). In 2016, Chi performed at La Mama Explorations 2016 as Tam in Hallowed Ground with The Shift Theatre (dir. Tom Healey) and was a voice over artist for The Butterfly Foundation’s virtual reality film, Iridescent. In 2017, Chi devised and performed OCCUPIED, a theatre experience in partnership with Melbourne Fringe Festival 2017, played Khanh Le (lead) in VIVID written by Hoa Pham (dir. Wolf Heidecker) and Phi Nguyen (lead) in the first Vietnamese-Australian family comedy web series Phi and Me (dir. Melanie Killingsworth). Chi was the recipient of the Grace Marion Wilson Scholarship for excellence in acting at the VCA. Chi is moreover an accomplished vocalist, pianist and the winner of LAVISA Singing Competition 2015.