Debuting Artist: Anh Nguyen

My name is Anh Nguyen. I’m currently a 4th year student at Colorado State University pursuing in Theater Performance. I am a foreign student from Vietnam, I moved to the US in 2016 with my family, so a bit different from other acting students who have done theater in high school, I spent my first years in America learning English. Acting to me has really been always my passion, I don’t know where it comes from, all I know is really just that it is what I want to do in my life. I had the pleasure to be in multiple productions at CSU like These Seven Sicknesses, She Kills Monsters, and Machinal. 

Outside of theater, I’m a pretty dreamy guy, I like to go on drives, especially on rainy, cloudy days and just listen to music in my car. You would probably see me sometimes in the Starbucks on College & Stuart, that’s where I go to study when I feel fancy.

I first heard of OpenStage in sophomore year when I auditioned for Cry it Out, which I had very little experience at the time so I guess it explains why I didn’t get the job. But since then, OpenStage has been my dream, I always hoped one day I would be a part of the OpenStage family.

Every rehearsal is a great time to me, I just love coming to rehearsal every night, checking in with the cast, seeing everyone show their works. I learn so much from  each one of these people.

To me, the most challenging when performing these characters is creating distinct characteristics for each one in order to portray multiple characters in a truthful way. Which Sydney helped me a lot through this process.

My favorite moment has to be in Act 2 scene one, when John Heminges cries out and says a line from Shakespeare, “It is my lady, O it is my love. O that she knew she were.” First because I love Romeo and Juliet so much. Second, I think this moment explains why actors like myself choose to do acting, because you get to feel things that you wouldn’t normally get to feel.

The Book of Will is about friendship, love, loss, life, etc. But to me, The Book Of Will is important because of its storyline, a group of friends try to preserve and collect William Shakespeare works into a book, we would’ve lost so many phenomenal plays like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, etc. And these are beautiful stories that we are now telling around the world because of the effort of these people.

I will be prepping for more auditions at CSU and also at OpenStage so hopefully in the near future you will see me again. I haven’t really thought about my dream roles but I’m really interested in realism plays as I get to perform complex characters, works of Henrik Ibsen or Anton Chekhov would be my dream productions to be in.