Alan Khoi Nguyen is an internationally award-winning writer, artist and designer working across screen, live performance and emerging technologies. His work spans television and film, theatre, immersive installation, virtual and augmented reality, interactive performance and experimental music, with collaborators and presenters including SBS, NBCUniversal, Disney+, Melbourne Theatre Company, Asia TOPA, National Museums Liverpool, the Royal Ontario Museum and EyeJack.
STORY & PERFORMANCE
Alan's writing on the four-part television series Hungry Ghosts earned Best Miniseries nominations at both the AACTA Awards and the Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Awards. It was produced by Matchbox Pictures for SBS and NBCUniversal and is now available on Apple TV+. He also wrote for the Disney+ series Last Days of the Space Age, nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Miniseries.
For live performance, Alan co-wrote The Moon Was a Telephone Into Which I Was Screaming, directed by Mark Zhuang Yi and presented through Melbourne Theatre Company's Cybec Electric and Asia TOPA. He wrote, directed and produced the short film Firebird, which screened at festivals across Asia, Europe and the United States and received multiple awards. He frequently collaborates with his brother, Jeremy Nguyen.
ART & TECHNOLOGY
Alan produced and directed Anthophilia, an immersive video installation exploring bee sensory perception for BEES: A Story of Survival. The work premiered at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool in 2024–25 before travelling to the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, in 2026. It developed from his VR documentary BeeScapes, winner of the People's Choice Award at FIVARS in Los Angeles and Toronto in 2022.
For Melodic Motions, Alan led a team developing Body Here, a gesture-based collaborative platform created with and for dancers with intellectual disabilities. The project culminated in a distributed live performance connecting dancers across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria in real time.
His other technology-based work includes writing and editing for the augmented-reality comic Razorlegs Volume 2 (EyeJack) and VR design for the videographic opera The Exaltation of Enheduanna (Nexus Arts, Adelaide).
Alan is also Digital Solutions Co-Lead for Eat, Move, Heal, a collaboration between RMIT University, Northern Health and the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department developing digital support tools for people living with Long COVID and the clinicians who care for them.
MUSIC
Emerging from Brisbane's experimental music community, Alan has performed across Australia, Asia and Europe. His compositions have been broadcast on ABC Classic, Triple J, 4ZZZ and PBS, and he has created sound design for award-winning theatre and live art.
RESEARCH & TEACHING
Alan is a Lecturer in Media in RMIT University's School of Media and Communication and a member of the Care-full Design Lab. His research and creative practice explore emerging forms of storytelling, media and technology, and he has presented at international conferences in Japan, Singapore and Korea.