ALAN NGUYEN

Alan Khoi Nguyen is an international-award-winning artist and designer. He creates for screen (SBS, NBCU, Apple TV, Disney+) live performance (MTC, Asia TOPA) and works with new and emerging technologies (National Museums Liverpool, EyeJack). 
 
NARRATIVE
Alan was a Best Miniseries double nominee for the Australian Film Institute’s AACTA Awards and the Australian Writers Guild’s AWGIE Awards for his writing on the 4 x 1 hour miniseries Hungry Ghosts (NBC Universal/ SBS Australia/ Matchbox Pictures) now available on Apple TV. His most recent screenwriting is on the Disney+ series Last Days of the Space Age, launched in late 2024 and nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Miniseries.

Alan was co-writer for The Moon was a Telephone into which I was Screaming, directed by Mark Zhuang Yi and showcased in Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Electric, Asia TOPA 2017. He wrote and directed the short film Firebird (2016), screening at festivals in Asia, Europe and US and winning several awards. He often cowrites and collaborates with his brother, Jeremy Nguyen.

TECHNOLOGY
Alan directed Anthophilia, a video installation depicting bee sensory perception, exhibited as part of 'BEES: a Story of Survival' at the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool, UK, 2024-2025. The immersive installation is a follow-up to his VR documentary BeeScapes (People's Choice Award 2022, FIVARS, LA and Toronto). 

Alan led a team on Melodic Motions, co-designing a gesture-based collaborative platform, Body Here, with and for dancers with intellectual disabilities. The project culminated in a live performance linking Fog Theatre performers in Melbourne CBD and Saint Kilda with (it's no) drama performers in rural Leongatha, South Gippsland in a real-time collaboration.

Alan serves as the Digital Solutions Co-Lead for 'Eat, Move, Heal' (RMIT, Northern Health and Virtual Victorian Emergency Department) producing support tools for patients and clinicians in the management of Long-COVID.

Alan was a writer and editor for groundbreaking AR comic book Razorlegs Volume 2 (EyeJack) and VR designer for videographic opera The Exaltation of Enheduanna (Nexus Arts, Adelaide). 

MUSIC
Emerging in Brisbane's experimental music community, Alan has performed music across Australia, Asia and Europe and his compositions have been played on ABC Classic FM, Triple J, 4ZZZ and PBS. He has sound-designed award-winning theatre and live–art.

ACADEMIC
As a media theorist, Alan has delivered presentations at international conferences in Japan, Singapore and Korea. Alan is a Lecturer in Media for the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University and is a member of the Care-full Design Lab.