Tuyết Thị Phạm is a Helen Hayes Award-winning actor living in Washington, DC. After earning her Masters, she moved to Washington, DC to become an Artistic Fellow at the famed Living Stage Theatre Company at Arena Stage. Following her fellowship, she has worked in theater, television, film, and print as an actor, director, and writer for over twenty years. She has been seen in over 40 productions in the Baltimore-Washington DC area that include roles at Centerstage, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, RepStage, Roundhouse Theatre, Imagination Stage, Signature Theatre, The HUB Theatre, NextStop Theatre, The Inkwell, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Arena Stage, and The Capital Fringe Festival. She is currently an Associate Artistic Director at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland.
Her play Dinner and Cake received its world premiere at Everyman Theatre in fall of 2022, and she was commissioned to write, co-direct and perform in Ping Chong and Company’s Generation Rise presented at the Reston Arts Center in the spring of 2023. She served as Associate Director for Tripp Cullman on Kenneth Lin’s World Premiere of his play Exclusion at Arena Stage.
She returned to her alma mater in 2016 to serve as a guest professor of movement and mentored the students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has also worked with Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, Interact Theatre, GPTC and The Nebraska Shakespeare Festival.
She choreographed, co-produced, and performs a series of workshops called Awkward Conversations as a part of DEIA training with The MOVEMENT MOVEMENT that facilitates dialogue centered around a pedagogy of kindness to help groups discuss difficult, challenging, and awkward topics for arts organizations around the DMV and country.
She is a company member of Bodywise Dance which has allowed her to continue her efforts for inclusion and social justice in the arts. As a core member, she has worked to devise “perforums” that mix elements of theatre and dance with specific social justice issues. Produced as a series called Women with Sword, the show has devised productions for the National School Lunch Program and the International Women’s Forum in Brazil, tackling the issue of Early Child Forced Marriages. Along with Woman with Sword, Bodywise has partnered with MVLE; a partnership that offers performance classes in dance and acting to adult persons with physical and intellectual disabilities. The MVLE performance group stresses inclusion; devising a show every year with an able-bodied/disabled bodied cast that tours the region.