about

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

She’s danced in recent projects by Monstah Black, Sally Silvers, among many other choreographers, and in 2024, appeared in the short film “Don’t F*ck with Bà” (dir. Sally Tran), and sometimes creates her own work.

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!.

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 publishes July 1, 2025 from Catapult.