Vi Tran

Vi Tran began performing as a toddler in the refugee camps of Southeast Asia for his fellow refugees. They took pity on this young and literally starving artist and gave him what food they could spare.

Kansas City audiences may recognize him as a theatre and commercial actor who has been onstage at the Coterie, the Unicorn, and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. He is also a singer-songwriter and was a staff cabaret singer at the late, beloved Bar Natasha.

Vi is the editor and lead columnist of “The Steady,” a fringe music and culture column for KCMetropolis.org. He also serves as one of the Coterie Theatre’s “Reaching the Write Minds” playwriting-in-the-schools facilitators, worked as a theatre critic for the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and contributed his talents to the Crossroads Theatre Company of New York City and Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. He holds a MA in Theatre Directing and a BA in Theatre and English, both from Kansas State University.

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