about

benedict nguyễn (she/her) is a #freelanceflailing dancer, writer, and creative producer.

photo by Cirsty Burton

She’s performed in recent projects with Pioneers Go East, Sally Silvers, and Sugar Vendil, and appeared in the short film “Don’t F*ck with Bà” (2024, dir. Sally Tran). She began developing the dance theater work “DEFENSE” with Sugar Vendil in 2025.

As a producer, she's supported projects that have been presented at the The Kitchen, Performance Space New York, New York Botanical Garden, tba21, ISSUE Project Room, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!, among others.

Her writing on labor and culture has appeared in The Baffler, BOMB Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Review of Books, and AAWW’s The Margins. A Publishers Weekly 2025 Writer to Watch, Benedict is the author of the [redacted] freelance labor zine nasty notes (2022). Her debut novel Hot Girls with Balls (Catapult 2025) was an ABA Indie Next Pick and USA Today National Bestseller.