Dan Thy Nguyen is a freelance theater director, actor, writer and singer in Hamburg. He has worked on various productions at Kampnagel, the Mousonturm Frankfurt, the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others. In 2014 he developed and
produced the play Sonnenblumenhaus about the pogrom of Rostock -Lichtenhagen, which won the Hörnixe in 2015 in its radio play version. Since 2016 he is co-gield of the theater advisory board for the state of Lower Saxony. Since 2020 he leads the Hamburg festival fluctoplasma - 96h Art Discourse Diversity with his production company Studio Marshmallow and he is deputy board member of the LAG Kinder- und Jugendkultur Hamburg. In 2021, together with the entire ensemble, he received the German Radio Play Award for the acting performance in the radio play Atlas.
Dan Thy Nguyen is hosting the event series how we inherit trauma at CfL in 2022 and 2023 as part of Studio Marshmallow.