Bi Jean Ngo grew up in Northern Virginia and attended W.T. Woodson High School. She attended the Governor’s School for the Performing Arts summer program in Richmond, and then went on to study Film & Television at Boston University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science. She furthered her studies in New York, and obtained her Masters of Fine Arts degree from The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School University. She currently resides in Philadelphia and has worked with many regional theatres, appeared in film & commercials, performs in filmed & live industrials, and teaches acting. She was also a 2016 recipient of the F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist Barrymore Award and is a founding member of PAPA (Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists). She received the Fox Fellowship Foundation Award for Artist with Extraordinary Potential from TCG (Theatre Communications Group). She completed her fellowship activities with Philadelphia's Lantern Theatre Company. In 2019, Bi Jean received an Independence Fellowship Foundation Award and went abroad to study at the Suzuki Company of Toga in Japan and to Italy at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski.
Recent Acting Credits Include:
In Search of the Kitchen Gods at 1812 Productions (upcoming 2022)
Backing Track at Arden Theatre Company (2022)
The Chinese Lady at InterAct Theatre Company (2021)
The Way I Walk at 1812 Productions (2021)
Sin Eaters at Theatre Exile (2021)
Manic Monologues at McCarter Theatre (2021)
Babel by Jacqueline Goldfinger at Theatre Exile (2020)
Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector at InterAct Theatre (2020)
The Great Leap by Lauren Yee at InterAct Theatre (2019)
Among the Dead by Hansol Jung at Theatre Exile (2019)
Recent Directing Credits Include:
Shakespeare in the Sculpture Garden at Delaware Shakespeare (2020)
Candles by Angelina Delmonte, 2020 (Co-produced by Philly Young Playwrights and Arden Theatre Company at the Arden Hamilton Family Arts Center)
New Voices New Works Festival 2019 and 2018, Philly Young Playwrights and Temple University
Much Ado About Nothing, 2018 Delaware Shakespeare Festival
Other Credits include:
InterAct Theatre: Sensitive Guys (2018)
Delaware Shakespeare: Pericles (2016) As You Like It (2017)
Lantern Theater : 36 Views (2016) The Tempest (2018)
Azuka Theatre Co: Lights Rise on Grace (2015)
The Walnut Street Theatre: Shipwrecked! (2015)
Shakespeare in Clark Park: Winter's Tale (2015)
The Arden Theatre Company: Peter Pan (2009) The ThreePenny Opera (2010) The Borrowers (2011), Waterby the Spoonful (2014)
InterAct Theatre Company: Microcrisis (2012), Some Other Kind of Person (2013), Caught (2014), You For Me For You (2017), Sensitive Guys (upcoming 2018)
1812 Productions: The Women and Comedy Project (2013), Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Project (2012)
Theatre Confetti: Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (2013)
Theatre Horizon: An Infinite Ache (2012)
Law Abiding Citizen, Overture Films 2009
