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

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 1996

Dell'Arte International
Summer Intensive 2016

Shakespeare & Company
Winter Intensive 2017

Suzuki Company of Toga, Japan
Summer Intensive 2018

The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski
Winter 2019

THEATRE EXPERIENCE

PRODUCTION                                    DATE         ROLE                         COMPANY                          Director

In Search of the Kitchen Gods            2022          Self                     1812 Productions                       Makoto Hirano
Backing Track                                      2022          Esther                 Arden Theatre Company            Becky Wright
The Chinese Lady                               2021          Afong Moy           InterAct Theatre Company        Justin Jain
Midsummer Night's Dream                 2021          Egeus, Quince     Pennsylvania Shakespeare       Matt Pfeiffer
The Way I Walk                                   2021          Bi                         1812 Productions                      Jen Childs
Sin Eaters                                           2021           Mary                    Theatre Exile                             Matt Pfeiffer
Babel                                                  2020           Ann                      Theatre Exile                             Deborah Block
​Eureka Day                                        2019           Meiko                   InterAct Theatre Company        Seth Rozin
The Great Leap                                  2019          Connie                  InterAct Theatre Company        Seth Rozin
Among the Dead                                 2019          Ana                      Theatre Exile                             Deborah Block
TheTempest                                        2018          Ariel                      Lantern Theater Company        Charles Macmahon
​Sensitive Guys                                    2018         Amy/Pete               InterAct Theatre Company       Evren Odcikin
As You Like It                                      2017           Celia                     Delaware Shakespeare            Madeleine Sayet
​Strange Tenants (Fringe)                    2017            Honey                  Sam Tower + Ensemble            Sam Tower
You For Me For You                           2016           Minhee                 InterAct Theatre Company         Rick Shiomi
Pericles                                               2016           Thaisa                  Delaware Shakespeare              David Stradley
Gala! US Premiere                             2016         Ensemble               Jerome Bel, FringeArts               Jerome Bel
36 Views                                             2016         Clare Tsong           Lantern Theater Company          Peter DeLaurier
The Nether                                          2016          Morris                     InterAct Theatre Company        Seth Rozin
Lights Rise on Grace                          2015          Grace                     Azuka Theatre Company           Kevin Glaccum
Shipwrecked!                                      2015         Player 1                   The Walnut Street Theatre        Jesse Bernstein
The Winter's Tale                                2015     Hermione & Autolycus Shakespeare in Clark Park       Kittson O'Neill
Caught                                                2014          Wang Min                Interact Theatre Company        Rick Shiomi

Water by the Spoonful                        2014         Madeleine                 The Arden Theatre Company   Lucie Tiberghien
Some Other Kind of Person                2013          Kaliyan                    Interact Theatre Company        Paul Meshejian
The Women & Comedy Project          2013         Ensemble                 1812 Productions                      Jen Childs
Edith Can Shoot Things & Hit Them   2013           Edith                       Theatre Confetti                        Aaron Cromie
An Infinite Ache                                   2013           Hope                       Theatre Horizon                        Meg O’Brien
Microcrisis                                           2012           Clare                        Interact Theatre Company        Seth Rozin
The Borrowers                                    2011         Arrietty                       Arden Theatre Company           Whit MacLaughlin
The Threepenny Opera                      2011          Walt/Nelly                  Arden Theatre Company           Terry Nolen
Peter Pan                                           2010          Tinkerbell                   Arden Theatre Company           David O’Connor
Grace or the Art of Climbing               2009             Dell                        Nice People Theatre Co       Pironne Yousefzadeh



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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

Bryn Mawr College
Adjunct Assistant Professor 2020
Intro to Acting 
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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
  • 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

SPECIAL SKILLS

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

Continuing Education

The Workcenter of Jerzey Grotowski led by Thomas Richards
  • winter intensive 2018
  • daily practice of singing and physical theatre
  • wrote and developed original solo performance

Suzuki Company of Toga Summer Intensive 2018
  • 3 weeks spent with Tadashi Suzuki's theatre company in Toga, Japan
  • daily physical theatre training under tutelage of Kameron Steele


Shakespeare & Company Winter Intensive 2017
  • studied Linklater
  • contact improv and Elizabethan choreography
  • deepened text work through dropping into the mind, heart, and body
  • core teacher: Tina Packer

Dell'Arte International, School for Physical Theatre
  • ​Month-long summer Intensive 2016
  • ensemble building
  • devised original pieces once a week
  • contact improv
  • mask work, elemental exploration, animal as mask
  • core instructors: Lauren Wilson, James Peck, Laura Munoz

11th Hour Theatre Company, Rock for the Musical Theatre Actor 6 Week Workshop with Meg O’Brien/Mike O’Brien
· Selected and rehearsed contemporary rock/rock belt songs appropriate for modern musical auditions
· Culminated in a rock concert at the venue, Twisted Tail

11th Hour Theatre Company, 5 week Voice Workshop with Steve Pacek
· Approached singing for musical theatre through text analysis and sense memory

The Naked Voice with Jean Rene Toussaint at the Wilma Theatre
· One week intensive with ensemble of actors and Blanka Zizka with a focus on opening up the voice & body.


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




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