Thuc Doan Nguyen is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer. She was born in Vietnam, and grew up in North Carolina and Southern Maryland. She is a double major from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Public Policy Analysis and Communication Studies and also holds a master's degree obtained in Southern California. Nguyen is the founder of "The Bitch Pack", a group dedicated to promoting female-driven screenplays through Twitter and other social media sites.
Career
For Nguyen's work in Hollywood, she and her Bitch Pack have been featured in The Huffington Post and Salon. Nguyen's historical drama screenplay about Lucy Parsons and Albert Parsons & The Haymarket Affair is number one in IndieWire's "Not All Stories Are About Straight White Men". Nguyen helped launch the first "Cause Related Marketing Department" at Saatchi & Saatchi London for Marjorie Ellis Thompson and Hamish Pringle, aiding them with the book Brand Spirit. Nguyen has published academically. She presented at the University of London with her paper "Of Cougars and Kittens in Vampire Visual Rhetoric of the Last 30 Years: Ageism, Sexuality, Conformity and Ethics in Relation to Contemporary Fictional Female Vampires in Film & Television". Paper Proposal Accepted by The London Consortium, by Dr. Simon Bacon. She wrote a piece for the book Race/Gender/Class/Media. In New York City, Nguyen has worked with Kevin McLeod on a series of interactive projects and online games for Atomic Pictures as an associate producer for the web game "The Beast". Nguyen is the voice of Cybertronics and Eliza in Eliza's Tea Room. They made web sites for groups such as the Service Employees International Union. She also worked for other integrated entertainment companies. Nguyen produced the documentary Goth Parking Lot at The Cure's Jones Beach Dream Tour show, as encouraged by the makers of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, fellow Marylanders. In Los Angeles, Nguyen worked for Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Brothers Television as a writers' and executive producers' assistant. Nguyen made up dialogue as Fredrik Bond's "Milkmaid": Creative Annual UK – Best Campaign – Bronze for MJZ. She has a screenwriting certificate from UCLA, and was a translator for the Rory Kennedy Academy Award-nominated documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Nguyen's work can be found in various publications. The Los Angeles Times published an essay by Nguyen about modern love. Nguyen's magazine writing work has included: Sweet Action, Useless, Working Class, Urb and BPM about popular culture, filmmakers, internet dating, Ima Robot, and Moving Units. Nguyen's also written for Nylon's Beauty Diary about Sting's yoga guru, Ganga White. Nguyen wrote about The Cartier Women's Initiative Awards to which she was invited and Lupita Nyong'o's stance on inclusion for The Hollywood Reporter. Nguyen wrote a deep dive about the phrase "Me love you long time"'s effects on society and also about #BlackPowerYellowPeril for Flaunt Magazine. Thanks to women such as Amanda de Cadenet and Sam Taylor-Johnson, Nguyen's photography work has been featured in their Girl Gaze Project. Multiple pieces of Nguyen's photography work were featured in Clawmarks Issue One which debuted at London Comic Con in 2016. Nguyen is active in political satire as an organizer for The Satanic Temple and as part of the writing team for Tomi Lahren viral parody show Toni Lahren produced in Los Angeles. The Sundance Film Institute, along with The MacArthur Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundation, among others, are sending Nguyen to The Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Nguyen's feature screenplay about Vietnamese refugees in The American South advanced to Round 2 of The Sundance Screenwriters' Lab. Nguyen will appear in an upcoming documentary film by Brad Faye and Kelsey Dickerson, with Noam Chomsky, discussing labor history, The Haymarket Affair and Lucy Parsons, of which Nguyen's lauded screenplay "Parsons" centers.
