ALAN NGUYEN

Dr Alan Khoi Nguyen is an international-award-winning filmmaker, artist and designer. He writes for TV (Disney+, Apple TV, NBCU, SBS, ABC), live performance (Melbourne Theatre Company, Arts House) and works with new and emerging technologies (EyeJack, National Museums Liverpool). 

Alan is passionate about interdisciplinary projects and the use of storytelling and new technologies to promote well-being, education and social connection.
 
FILM, TV & STREAMING
Alan was a Best Miniseries double nominee for the Australian Film Institute’s AACTA Awards and the Australian Writers Guild’s AWGIE Awards for his writing on the 4 x 1 hour limited series Hungry Ghosts (NBC Universal/ SBS Australia/ Matchbox Pictures) now available on Apple TV. His most recent screenwriting is on the Disney+ series Last Days of the Space Age, launched in late 2024.

As a film director and writer, Alan's film work has screened on ABC and won awards at film festivals internationally. He frequently cowrites and collaborates with his brother, Jeremy Nguyen.

DIGITAL TOOLS, XR & INTERACTIVE
Alan wrote, directed and produced Anthophilia, a physically immersive nature documentary-artwork currently being exhibited as part of 'BEES: a Story of Survival' at the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool, UK May 2024 -  May 2025. Anthophilia is a follow-up to his VR nature documentary BeeScapes (People's Choice Award 2022, Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories). Alan served as writer and editor for groundbreaking AR comic book Razorlegs Volume 2 (published by EyeJack) and was VR designer for videographic opera The Exaltation of Enheduanna (Nexus Arts, Adelaide). 

Alan is the co-Digital Lead of 'Eat, Move, Heal' (RMIT, Northern Health and Virtual Victorian Emergency Department) producing support tools for patients and clinicians in the management of Long-COVID. He led a research-design team on Melodic Motions, involving the co-design of a gesture-based collaborative platform with and for dancers with intellectual disabilities (Department of Social Services).

MUSIC & SOUND
Emerging in Brisbane's experimental music community, Alan has performed music in Australia, Asia and Europe and his compositions have been played on ABC Classic FM, Triple J, 4ZZZ and PBS. He has sound-designed award-winning theatre and live–art.

LECTURER & ACADEMIC
As a media theorist, Alan has delivered presentations at international conferences in Japan, Singapore and Korea. Alan is a Lecturer in Media for the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University and is a member of the Care-full Design Lab.