about





benedict nguyen (she/her) is a #freelanceflailing dancer, writer, and creative producer.

photo by Cirsty Burton

She’s danced in recent projects by Sally Silvers, Kris Seto, Monstah Black, among other choreographers, appeared in the short film “Don’t F*ck with Bà” (2024, dir. Sally Tran), and began developing the dance theater work “DEFENSE” with Sugar Vendil in 2025. 

As a producer, she's supported projects that have been presented at the New York Botanical Garden, tba21, ISSUE Project Room, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!, among others.

Her writing on labor and culture has appeared in The Baffler, BOMB Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Review of Books, and AAWW’s The Margins. A Publishers Weekly 2025 Writer to Watch, Benedict is the author of the [redacted] freelance labor zine nasty notes (2022). Her debut novel Hot Girls with Balls (Catapult) published July 1, 2025 .