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 Hoang
To Mai, 1999
is a writer/playwright who received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the
Nguyen Du School of creative writing at the College of Culture in Hanoi,
Vietnam. During her studies, she had the opportunity to work with famous
Vietnamese writers and foreign literature professors from France, Germany,
and Russia. In June 1996, by the invitation of the Asian Cultural Council,
she went to the United States for three months and worked with American
directors, and studied creative writing at NYU, Columbia and University
of Massachusetts. She received second place in Tienphong Newspaper's Young
Writers Prize, and has published short stories, plays and articles in
Vietnam. She is currently a journalist for Tienphong and is interested
in reading and writing scripts as well as staging them, especially in
the Vietnamese traditional theater form Cheo.
Nguyen Boi Co,
1997
A graduate of the Hanoi National Conservatory (B.A. in Orchestral Conducting
and Musicology), Ms. Nguyen is currently a candidate for the Master of
Music degree in Orchestral Conducting at Mannes College of Music. Though
she has performed with distinction for the Chamber Orchestra of the Vietnam
Association of Musicians and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra-Hanoi
Opera House at home, she has also managed to tour extensively abroad,
including the United States. As the 1997 recipient of the Fellowship Grant
from the Asian Cultural Council, she has continued her work in developing
ties in the performing arts.
Nguyen Thi Hong
Ngat, 1996
is one of the few women playwrights in Vietnam. She achieved early distinction
as a performer/dancer in the traditional Vietnamese theatre form known
as Cheo. She studied acting at the Hanoi College of Dramatic Arts in 1973
and continued her education in the Soviet Union at the Moscow Cinema Institute,
where she studied writing for theatre and film. She has been prolific
with a corpus of work consisting of published novels, poetry, film scripts
and plays, becoming a renowned writer. She credits her training in Cheo,
with its combination of song, dance, acting and dialogue as giving her
dramatic writing a particularly Vietnamese flavor. She is currently the
director of the Youth Picture Film Studio. In addition she is a member
of the executive committee of the Vietnamese Cinema Association. She is
also a member of the Vietnamese Writers Association. and the Vietnmese
Theater Association. She recently presented a paper on the future of Vietnamese
theatre entitled 'A Fascinating Torment' at the Third International Conference
of Women Playwrights in Adelaide, Australia.
 Nguyen
Thu Thuy, 1997, 2000
Nguyen Thu
Thuy was born in central Vietnam to a humble family that loves the arts.
Since childhood, Thuy has had a close relationship to the arts, especially
music. At the age of eight, she began her formal studies after being accepted
at the Vietnam Music School. She was recognized as an exceptional student
and performed frequently as a soloist at numerous prestigious engagements.
In 1993 she was honored at the National Professional Competition for Traditional
Music. She began her studies in the Vocal Department and holds her Bachelor's
degree in Traditional Music and Voice. She is currently on the faculty
of the Hanoi National Conservatory of Music. She has appeared as both
a musician and vocalist in performances throughout Vietnam as well as
on tour to Thailand, Indonesia, Denmark, Korea, Singapore and France.
She is a returning artist from the 1997 APPEX program.
 Ta
Vu Thu, 1999
is a Tuong actor from Hanoi, Vietnam. He is trained in the Vietnamese
theatre style Tuong, and has studied Vietnamese national opera, receiving
his Bachelors degree in 1992. Following in his parent's footsteps (his
father is a director and his mother an actress), he acts, dances and choreographs
in Tuong traditional arts. Currently a member of the Vietnam Tuong Theatre,
he has performed in Vietnam and other countries,
most recently in Spain in the summer of 1998.
Tran Thi Van
Quyen, 1997
A celebrated actress/singer/dancer of Cheo, Ms. Tran is recognized for
her outstanding vocal and dramatic interpretation of both traditional
and contemporary Cheo plays. An awarding winning member of the National
Cheo Company, she has won gold medals in 1988, 1991, 1994 and in 1995.
Adding to her national recognition, has been her recent work in film and
television. Ms. Tran has toured Germany, France, England, Tunisia , Rumania,
and Thailand, to introduce Vietnamese Cheo theater to these countries.
Vu Thuy Ten,
1996, 1997
(APPEX I) A noted director and actor in the traditional Vietnamese theatrical
form of Tuong--which combines singing, acting, clowning and dance
in the traditional Vietnamese opera--Ms. Vu is the first woman to be an
artistic director of a Tuong theatre. As a professional government-supported
theatre company, the group tours extensively in both urban and rural settings
throughout Vietnam. She is a performer who combines dramatic strength,
technical virtuosity and lyrical musicality in her work and is recognized
as one of the finest exponents of the Tuong tradition in Vietnam
today. And as a trained performer, Ms. Vu has been featured in several
current plays and films.
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