Laura Nguyen
Hi there!
The strong determined royal and
the wise and trusted companion.
I am a Michigan based actor who is passionate about exploring underrepresented voices and works. I am currently finishing up my BFA in Acting at Western Michigan University and hold a AFA in Theatre from Lansing Community College. Recent credits include POTUS (Western Michigan University), In Common (Purple Rose Theatre Co), Death of a Salesman (Flint Repertory), Everybody, Women Playing Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet (Lansing Community College). I have also appeared in a commercial for NCG and LCC's School of Business. In my free time, I love to craft and go play laser tag.
"Laura Nguyen leads the pack as the aspiring, young actress cast as Hamlet... give strong performances and are relatively easy to understand, despite the challenge of the actors being masked."
Jane Zussman, GLUT Reviews
What's New?
WORLD PREMIERE - Turnover: A New Leaf
Queer Theatre Kalamazoo presents
WORLD PREMIERE of Turnover: A New Leaf by David Quang Pham
May 16-17 at 7:30pm
May 18 at 2pm
A plant-based musical comedy about how two neighboring families, rooted in prejudice, overturn their views when their queer kids start rooting for each other. Set in the fictional nation of Woodwork that is inhabited by photogenic plants, Malus Crabapple is the FigLeaf nightclub owner who sees transplants as invasive. Meanwhile, Rau Ram is the Salontro salon owner who is trying to earn her Green Card. She teaches her natural-born citizen son Parsley that queerness is unnatural. When a free-spirited pear named Pyrus visits town to spend the summer with their unty Malus, Parsley befriends Pyrus and starts showing his queer self (his mother’s transgression). TURNOVER plants coming-of-age themes of family dynamics, immigrant assimilation, performative activism, body image, and the duality between nature versus nurture.
