29 min
Episode Thirteen: Tea Nguyen Artists At Home: Keeping Busy During Quarantine
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- Performing Arts
On today's episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with actor, producer and 1st Degree Blackbelt Tea Nguyen! We got to talk about ways to improve your mental wellbeing, burning out as an artist, and what the future may hold for us resilient artists and creators.
Tea Nguyen is an alumna of Niagara College's Acting for Film and Television Program, and a graduate of Second City's Improv Program. Since graduating, some of her credits include starring in No Visible Scars, a two hander off-off Broadway play in the New York International Fringe Festival. Tea performs as (and co-wrote for) Empress Wu Zetian in NASTY, which went on to win Patrons Pick in the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, and remounted in the 2018 Feminist Fuck It Festival. Tea also embodies Lady Nijo in Alumnae Theatre's 2019 production of Top Girls, and is a lead in an ensemble cast in TV pilot My Spot. Tea is a 1st degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and her favourite weapon is the Bo Staff. Tea is the co-founder and lead Producer of Reverie Arts, an indie film company based in Toronto, and is an Executive Producer with the indie arts coalition, an arts service organization serving the indie artist community. "I want to empower BI-POC artists, LGBTQIA+ performers and women's voices through film and the arts".
On today's episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with actor, producer and 1st Degree Blackbelt Tea Nguyen! We got to talk about ways to improve your mental wellbeing, burning out as an artist, and what the future may hold for us resilient artists and creators.
Tea Nguyen is an alumna of Niagara College's Acting for Film and Television Program, and a graduate of Second City's Improv Program. Since graduating, some of her credits include starring in No Visible Scars, a two hander off-off Broadway play in the New York International Fringe Festival. Tea performs as (and co-wrote for) Empress Wu Zetian in NASTY, which went on to win Patrons Pick in the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, and remounted in the 2018 Feminist Fuck It Festival. Tea also embodies Lady Nijo in Alumnae Theatre's 2019 production of Top Girls, and is a lead in an ensemble cast in TV pilot My Spot. Tea is a 1st degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and her favourite weapon is the Bo Staff. Tea is the co-founder and lead Producer of Reverie Arts, an indie film company based in Toronto, and is an Executive Producer with the indie arts coalition, an arts service organization serving the indie artist community. "I want to empower BI-POC artists, LGBTQIA+ performers and women's voices through film and the arts".
29 min