NANCY SUN is the queer daughter of Chinese immigrants and currently based in New York City. As a playwright, Nancy centers the narratives of “supporting” characters and makes invisible labor visible. Her first full-length play PANDAMONIUM! recently received a developmental workshop as an Official Selection of the 2026 Seven Devils New Play Conference and an excerpted staged reading as the 1st Place Winner of the 2025-26 ‘A is For’ Playwriting Contest. PANDAMONIUM! was also a Finalist for the 2026 Ojai Playwrights Conference and a Semifinalist for the 2026 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. At Primary Stages, Nancy is a 2026 Mary Louise Rockwell Scholar and previously a member of their 2024-25 Echoes Writers Group. Finalist: 2026 Under Construction Playwrights Group at Road Theatre; 2025 Target Margin Theatre Institute Fellowship; Semifinalist: 2025 Signpost Fellowship, 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency. MFA: Hunter College, 2028.

As an actor, Nancy made her studio feature film debut in Going in Style, directed by Zach Braff and opposite Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Alan Arkin. Notable TV credits include NBC's Shades of Blue, Showtime’s Homeland, TVLand’s Younger, and NBC’s The Slap. She recently appeared onstage in the world premiere of Deborah Stein's Marginal Loss at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. American Theatre called her portrayal of a star-on-the-rise trader in the days immediately following 9/11 "the festival’s most nuanced female character." Broadway World wrote "Nancy Sun drives home...these moments with emotional probity, and it is evident that she took this role to heart. " She most enjoys originating roles and developing new work, as she done in workshops and readings for playwrights such as Celine Song and Mia Chung.

She is a toddler mom and a dog mom.