(He/They)
Anthony Doan
Artist, activist, hungry
Anthony Doan (he/they) is a queer, first-generation Vietnamese-American theatre artist currently based in the Bay Area. Through an anti-racist, culturally informed lens, they strive to viscerally entertain and challenge audiences, provoke political thoughts, and inspire people to empathetically listen to the world in a different vibration.
Acting
Anthony transforms physically, vocally, and emotionally to embody characters from Shakespearean classics to original new plays.
Oakland Theatre Project, 2024
Playwriting
Anthony coins his writing aesthetic as “epic intimacy:” a sense of grandeur in dramatically heightened stakes that emerges from the emotional truths of human nature.
Workshop at More Más Marami, 2024
Directing
Anthony directs to excavate and process human truth, uplifting the written words in a collaboration between other artists and personal interpretation.
West Valley College Theatre Alumni Network, 2024
Teaching Artist
Through an approach of play, Anthony creates and implements lesson plans that support safe, fun, and creative learning environments to promote confidence, speech skills, and a passion for performance.
Also, he is available for individual coaching, specializing in audition help, monologue work, and scene study.
Upcoming
- The Soulmate Play will have a public staged reading as a part of the Lights Up! Play Festival at City Lights Theatre Company in San Jose, CA on June 14, 2025.
- Eggshell; or Vỏ Trứng will have a public staged reading as a part of the UNLEASHED Play Festival at Pork Filled Productions in Seattle, WA on June 21, 2025.
- Anthony will perform as Lucetta/Thurio in Two Gentlemen of Verona in San Francisco Shakespeare Festival this summer, performances start on July 19, 2025.
- Anthony will direct Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok with More Más Marami Arts in San Jose, CA, opening on August 8, 2025.
- Anthony is developing I Did Not Kill My Mother; and Other Lies I Tell Myself as a part of Crowded Fire Theater’s Resilience & Development (R&D) Lab to be presented at a public staged reading in spring 2026.
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