Caroline Guiela Nguyen is an author, director and producer. In 2009, she founded the company Les Hommes Approximatifs, with which she created Se souvenir de Violetta (2011), Le Bal d'Emma (2013), Elle brûle (2013) and Le Chagrin (2015) at the Comédie de Valence. 2015 marked the start of her involvement with the Maison Centrale in Arles. There she collaborated with Joël Pommerat and Jean Ruimi to create Désordre d'un futur passé and Marius with prison inmates. In 2020, she directed her first film there: Les Engloutis. In 2017, she created Saigon at the Ambivalence(s) festival at the Comédie de Valence and at the 71st Festival d'Avignon. Presented at the Ateliers Berthier in 2018 and 2019, and still touring today, the show has been performed in some fifteen countries. Fraternité, a fantastic tale, also created at the Festival d'Avignon, was presented at Les Ateliers Berthier in 2021, and is touring France and Europe. In 2022, she wrote and directed Kindheitsarchive, a drama about adoption, at the Schaubühne in Berlin, with the actors of the permanent ensemble.
She was associate artist at the Odéon from 2016 to 2023. Since September 2023, she has directed the Théâtre national de Strasbourg and its School.