Qui Nguyen is a playwright, screenwriter, and co-founder of the Obie Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company of NYC. His plays include Vietgone (2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, 2016 LADCC Tim Schmitt Award, 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize finalist); War is F**king Awesome (Frederick Loewe Award); She Kills Monsters (2014 AATE Distinguished Play Award, 2012 GLAAD Media Award nom); Soul Samurai (2009 GLAAD Media Award nom); and the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys shows: The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl Battle World, Men of Steel, Six Rounds of Vengeance and Living Dead in Denmark. Recent awards include a 2016 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program (Peg+Cat) and a 2015 New York Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwriting Award. He is proud member of the WGA, The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He’s an alumnus of New Dramatist

Caroline Lederle (Stage Manager) is excited to stage manage her second show with MSJ Theatre Arts! Some of her favorite shows she has been a part of are Empty Space: A Theatrical Web-Series, Twelve Angry Jurors, Little Shop of Horrors, and Matilda with Mount Notre Dame Theatre. Caroline is a freshman graphic design major at MSJ. She is also an active member in Theatre Lab at the Mount.

Richard Buchanan (Director) is delighted to be working with the cast of “She Kills Monsters.” He is an actor, director, and educator originally hailing from the land of pleasant living, currently residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he is not at Mount St Joseph University working as the Director of Theatre Arts you can often find his clown doctor persona, Dr. Giacomo, strolling the halls of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. His favorite directing credits include “Empty Space” (MSJ), “The Importance of Being Earnest” (MSJ), “The Restaurant” (Interlochen Arts Camp), and “I, Cockroach” (Urbana University). He is grateful to be a part of the MSJ community, and would like to thank his wife Rae for her constant support!

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