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SAYMOUKDA DUANGPHOUXAY VONGSAY

Lao American playwright, children’s book author, poet, essayist, and cultural producer.

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ALL ABOUT ME

Saymoukda is a Lao-American playwright whose work amplifies stories from the Laotian and Southeast Asian diaspora.

 

She’s currently a Jerome@Camargo Artist-in-Residence (Cassis, France), a Playwrights Center Core Writer, and a MN State Arts Board grantee. Recent honors include a Jerome Hill Fellowship, a Bush Fdn Leadership Fellowship, two terms as a Mellon Fdn Playwright-in-Residence, and being the first Minnesotan artist to be invited as an Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center REACH. 

Robert Johnson, The Free Press

"[Saymoukda] has her thumb on the pulse of the moment and her heartstrings tethered to her ancestral path, lending her work immediacy and universality. Her lived experience and her writing ring true to people young and old, connecting like held hands with a diverse audience. [Her] voice is one we need in our contentious, tumultuous time.” 
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Photos provided by Melissa Vang, Xu Yang, Peter Phung, Christopher Colucci, Sean Smuda, and The St. Paul Almanc

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