Bi Jean Ngo
Actress, Educator, Director, Food Lover
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EDUCATION & TRAINING

The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School University, New York
Masters Degree of Fine Arts in Acting

Boston University College of Communication, Boston
Bachelor of Science in Film & Television

The Governor's School for the Performing Arts, Richmond
Summer Session 

Dell'Arte International
Summer Intensive 

Shakespeare & Company
Winter Intensive 

Suzuki Company of Toga, Japan
Summer Intensive 

The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski
Winter 




THEATRE credits (Actors' Equity)


Delaware Theatre Company
2023 Poppy in Noises Off 

1812 Productions
2022 Self-created Solo Show "In Search of the Kitchen Gods" 

Arden Theatre
2022, Backing Track 
2014, Water by the Spoonful

InterAct Theatre Company
2021 The Chinese Lady
2019 Eureka Day
2018 Sensitive Guys

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
2021 Midsummer Night's Dream

Theatre Exile
2021 Sin Eaters
2020 Babel
2019 Among the Dead

Lantern Theater
2018 The Tempest
2016 36 Views

Delaware Shakespeare Festival
2016 Pericles
2017 
As You Like It



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Princeton University
Guest Director and Lecturer
Theater Rehearsal and Performance
  • Directed a student cast in a full production of Lauren Yee's King of the Yees, produced by Princeton University at the Berlind at McCarter Theatre Center, 2023​
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University of Pennsylvania
Guest Lecturer

Spring 2023
Intro to Acting

Bryn Mawr College
Lecturer in Theatre 2020-2023
Fundamentals of Acting


Temple University
Adjunct Assistant Professor since 2016
Classes taught include Intro to Acting, Intro to Acting-Honors, Creativity, and Race on the Stage




DIRECTING EXPERIENCE

Midsummer Night's Dream, Summer 2021 at Delaware Shakespeare
Candles, Winter 2019 at Philadelphia Young Playwrights (Barrymore recommended)
Philadelphia Young Playwrights "New Voices Monologue Festival" Spring 2017
Delaware Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing" Summer 2018
Temple University & Philly Young Playwrights "New Voices One-Act Festival" Fall 2018 and 2019




FILM EXPERIENCE/INDUSTRIALS/OTHER

Braised Short Film, role of Mother, 2023, d. Huong Vu

Endless Short Film, role of Faye, 2022 d. Doug Williams

Law Abiding Citizen, role of Marvelle, released 2010 by Overture Films, d. Gary Gray


Various training videos, voice-overs, and spokesmodel projects include clients such as Hershey Park, Glaxo Smith Cline, Upenn Medical, The Sci-Fi Channel, etc.


Led 6-week on-camera classes for teens at Haddonfield Theatre Arts Center


HONORS/AWARDS
  • Recipient of the Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Project Workshop 2012
  • 2016 Recipient of the  F.Otto Haas Emerging Artist Barrymore Award
  • ​Recipient of  Round 10 TCG Fox Fellowship Foundation Award for Artist with Extraordinary Potential awarded by Theatre Communications Group 2016
  • Recipient of 2018 Independence Fellowship Foundation Award

SPECIAL SKILLS

· Speaks Vietnamese, French, and Italian
· Sings, moves well, and rock climbs
· Puppeteer

















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