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David Quang Pham

Award-winning songwriter, filmmaker, and science communicator. His work engage viewers in science and social issues; staged Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally; are adventure, fantasy, queer genres. A fellow of Cinephilia, Kellogg’s Foundation, Great Performances, Playwrights Foundation, Working Title Playwrights, Harriet Tubman Institute Music. BS Astrophysics & Theatre, Michigan State University.

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  • Our Ancestor 🦣
    • To reunite with their family, a prehistoric hunter and a woolly mammoth must face a world full of their grandchildren.
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    • TV Series
    • 📖Pilot: "Fish Out of Space"
  • Banh MI 🥖
    • The Dos, a Vietnamese American family in Michigan, try to run their performance venue restaurant DO BANH MI and survive the 2020s.
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    • TV Series
    • 📖Pilot: "Dough Banh Mi"
  • Chemicals in the Water ☢️
  • The Galaxy Family 💫
    • Singularity, their six kids (HD, Cartwheel, Whirlpool, Triangulum, Andromeda, Milky Way), and their dog Gravity try to save the Universe after the Big Bang unravels monsters ready to consume them.
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    • Website
    • 📖Story Bible
    • 📖Pitch Deck
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    • Film
    • 📖Script
    • ✏️2025 David N Weiss
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    • Musical
    • 12 Performers + Ensemble
    • 🎵Score
    • 🎭2021 Working Title Playwrights
    • 🏆2022 O'Neill Theatre Semi
    • 🎥2023 Milky Way Theatre Off-Broadway
    • 🎭2023 Uni. Coimbra Workshop
  • The Living Fossils 🦴
    • A young biochemist must face her wild past and challenge her scientific future when she teams up with a Vietnamese horseshoe crab to find her mother, lost at sea near Fossil Island.
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    • 📖Story Bible
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    • TV Series
    • 📖Pilot: "Uong Nuoc"
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    • Play
    • 2W
    • 📖Script
    • ✏️2025 Workshop Theater Lab
    • 🏆2025 People's Theatre Finalist
  • Photosynthesis 🌱
  • Solid, Liquid, and Gas 🎭
    • In a last-ditch effort to reinvent herself, a struggling educator must win the host role in the beloved children’s tv series STARPOWER!, only to face the original host’s legacy and a public resistant to inclusivity.
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    • Website
    • 📖Story Bible
    • 📖Pitch Deck
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    • TV Series
    • 📖Pilot: "Inner Child"
    • ✏️2026 ScripTank
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    • Musical
    • 5 Performers
    • 📖Book
    • 🎭2026 Playwrights Horizon The Work Lab
  • Stardust + StarPower! ⭐
    • Stardust is an interactive preschool show where a live-action host (Clay) and an animated mudpuppy salamander named Stardust visit worlds in the Milky Way to help the locals learn science.
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    • An interactive science show where a live-action host (Aurora), a sidekick (Ray), and two animated Salamander Sisters (StarPower and Stardust) explore the universe to help the locals learn science and save worlds in danger.
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    • Website
    • 📖Story Bible
    • 📖Pitch Deck
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    • Stardust
    • 📖Pilot: "Glitter"
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    • StarPower!
    • 📖Pilot: "Milky Way Sick Day"
  • Southeast 👻
    • After their fathers vanish in a hurricane, the neighboring Senegalese American and Vietnamese American siblings must protect their Louisiana duplex from a magic-hungry French American landowner by summoning ancestors, who grow troubled by the kids' immature requests.
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    • Website
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    • Film
  • Star Zoos 🦦🐙🐻🐟
  • The Sugarcoats 🧥🔥💧
    • The fabulous adventures of superperformers Candy Aura, Milky Monsoon, Spicy Flamboy, Rocky Gorgeous, Poppy Polare, and their cat Sugaroo. They tour the world in their dazzling mobile library known as the Wonder Wagon, stopping natural disasters by entertaining unruly elementals.
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    • 📖Story Bible
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    • TV Series
  • Tour ⚛
    • Students and professors (Quark, Lepton, Boson, Atom) make their way through the college known as the Accelerator.
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    • Website
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    • Opera
    • 4 Performers + Ensemble
    • 🏆2019 Downtown Urban Arts Festival Finalist
    • 🎭2020 CreateTheater Read
  • Tracy 🧬
    • In 2064, 15-year-old Tracy Long lives in Pharr Bayou with his mom Gloriana. When a time-traveling art collector accidentally strands him in 2032 while trying to steal Gloriana’s sketchbook, he is treated as a godson by his unsuspecting grandma and teenage mom. To save human creativity from an impending AI revolution, he must convince Glory to pursue her artistic dreams. As his 2064 mom hunts him through time to bring him home, he must choose to exist as a product of his mom's broken dreams or to cease to exist so she can be happy.
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    • TV Series
  • Etc: Short Musicals
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    • Check Out
    • Book by David Quang Pham, Music by Eric Grunin, Lyrics by Valerie Work
    • 📖Script
    • 🎥2025 NYPL Performing Arts
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    • Intrusive Thoughts
    • 📖Script
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    • Life After
    • Book by David Quang Pham, Music by Marie Incontrera, Lyrics by Stephanie L Carlin
    • 📖Script
    • 🎥2023 NYPL Performing Arts
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    • Parallel University📜
    • Book and Music by David Quang Pham, Music by Marie Incontrera, Story by DQP
    • 4 Performers
    • 📖Script
    • 🎭2021 NYPL Performing Arts
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    • The Rest of My Life⚕️
    • The musical of your dreams. The psychological sports dramedy is a deep dive into sleep and how you can make a new life out of it or die in it.
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    • Seasoning⛈️
    • The Season family are on a trip around the world when suddenly the kids fall ill from the sapien disease. The parents Monsoon and Drought must find a cure before they lose their winter and spring kids to the evil spirit, Aerosol.
    • 6 Performers + Ensemble
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  • Etc: Short Plays
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    • The Bookworms🪱
    • A group of bugs starts a book club in an abandoned library.
    • 7 Performers + Ensemble
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    • ✏️2023 Harlem Writers United
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    • Double Negative🧮
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    • Foster Monster
    • A lioness adopts six antelopes.
    • 1 Performer
    • 📖Script
    • 🎭2026 NYC Frigid Fringe
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    • Mimicry🐦
    • A myna bird and a monitor become a phoenix and a dragon after losing their children.
    • 2 Performers
    • 📖Script
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    • Modern Medicine🩺
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    • Sturgeon🐟
    • In Gary, Indiana, an old foreman must choose between selling an antiquated wrench or using it to save his steel mill.
    • 2M, 1W
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  • Etc: Short Films
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    • Buyer's Remorse
    • Directed by Caitlin Mayernik, Produced by Eva Doherty, Written by David Quang Pham
    • 🎥Watch
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    • Friend or Pho
    • A Black vet takes a cooking class taught by a Vietnamese refugee.
    • 📖Script
    • 🏆2026 Kellogg's Foundation How We Heal
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    • Light Owls
    • While her viral lo-fi music video inspires students everywhere to study, a failing Rowan must choose between her make-up exam and a record deal with her band, Light Owls.
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    • The Legend of Aroma
    • A sorceress and her skunk sidekick, Gasberry, must defeat Rancid to save Mother Tongue and restore peace to their neck of the woods.
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    • Nature Walks📖
    • Following a partner's tragic death, a grieving young adult becomes trapped in a forest where haunting leaves and recorded voices force them to confront the guilt of leaving.
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  • Etc: Music Videos

    • Influences

    • Favorites
      • Song: "The Kids from Yesterday" by My Chemical Romance
      • Poem: "Spirits Watch Over You" by Aliyah Curry
      • Karaoke: "Shake a Tail Feather" by The Five Du-Tones
      • Film: Elf
      • Book: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Books
      • 11-22-63; Alice in Wonderland; Beatrice the 16th; Bloodchild and Other Stories; Braiding Sweetgrass; The Call of the Wild; Citadel of Fear; Cosmos; Dark Lord of Derkholm; Ghost Bride; The God of Small Things; Gorillas in the Mist; Flatland; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Howl's Moving Castle; In the Eye of the Sun; Jane Eyre; The Martian; The Mermaid, The Witch, and The Sea; Michigan Chillers; The One; Peter Rabbit; Robocalpyse; The Signature of All Things; Silent Spring; Watership Down; Where the Red Fern Grows; A Wrinkle in Time; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    • Musicals & Operas
      • Beau; Beauty and the Beast; Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk; Cats; Falsettos; Fame; Hadestown; Hair; In the Heights; Into the Woods; Maybe Happy Ending; The Pirates of Penzance; Spamalot; Sunday in the Park with George; Urinetown; Waitress
    • Films
      • Air Bud; All Dogs Go to Heaven; Atlantis: The Lost Empire; The Blues Brothers; Cool Runnings; Elf; A Goofy Movie; The Emperor's New Groove; Homeward Bound; Ice Age: The Meltdown; The Iron Giant; Kung Fu Panda; Lilo and Stitch; The Martian; Meet the Robinsons; Moonlight; Moonrise Kingdom; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Perfect Blue; The Place Beyond the Pines; The Prince of Egypt; Princess Mononoke; Ruby Sparks; Stuart Little; Star Wars; When Harry Met Sally; The Wild Robot
    • Cartoons
      • Adventure Time; Amphibia; Animaniacs; Arthur; Astroboy; Batman Beyond; BoJack Horseman; Blue Eyed Samurai; The Boondocks; Centaurworld; Chowder; Common Side Effects; Cowboy Bebop; Cyberchase; Daria; The Fairly Odd Parents; The Flintstones; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends; Futurama; Hey Arnold!; Infinity Train; Jimmy Neutron; Kim Possible; Kill La Kill; King of the Hill; Liberty Kids; Lilo & Stitch; My Life as a Teenage Robot; The Magic School Bus; One Punch Man; Osmosis Jones; Over the Garden Wall; Pippi Longstocking; Phineas and Ferb; The Proud Family; Recess; Sailor Moon; Samurai Jack; Scooby-Doo; The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy; The Simpsons; SpongeBob SquarePants; Star Vs The Forces of Evil; Star Wars; Static Shock;
    • TV Series
      • 2 Broke Girls; 21 Jump Street; 30 Rock; Abbott Elementary; Atlanta; The Bear; Breaking Bad; Broad City; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Community; Crazy Ex Girlfriend; Drake & Josh; Everybody Hates Chris; Fleabag; Fresh Off the Boat; George Lopez; Hannah Montana; iCarly; Kim's Convenience; The Last Man on Earth; Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide; Parks and Recreation; Pen15; Power Rangers; Search Party; Sherlock; The Suite Life of Zack & Cody; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Wilfred; Zoey 101
    • Musicians
      • Al Jarreau, Amour Plastique, Aretha Franklin, Beck, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Tyler, Brahm Wenger, Camille Saint-Saëns, Clint Mansell, Danny Elfman, David Bowie, Eladia Blazquez, Else Marie Pade, Erik Satie, Flo Rida, Galt MacDermot, Green Day, Heather Christens, James Newton Howard, Jenni Vartiainen, Joan Armatrading, John Williams, Julian Scanlan, Kris Bowers, Manuel Ponce, Marc Blitzstein, Meg Okura, Miki Matsubara, Meiko Nakahara, Michael Gore, Michael Kamen, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Ray Charles, Simple Plan, Stephen Schwartz, Teshima Aoi, The Five Du-Tones, Rolling Stones, Thomas Newman, Tom Lehrer, Tôn-Thât Tiêt, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Trombone Shorty, Willy Nelson, Yurie Kokubu