The Whole Story: Representation in Intercultural Storytelling with Diana Nguyen and Osamah Sami

Name: The Whole Story: Representation in Intercultural Storytelling with Diana Nguyen and Osamah Sami
Start: 2026-03-18T08:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-18T09:00:00+11:00
Location: 102 Stawell Street South, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3350

Schedule

Wed Mar 18 2026 at 08:00 am to 09:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

102 Stawell Street South, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3350 | Ballarat, VI

To mark Ballarat Harmony Fest, join Diana Nguyen and Osamah Sami in conversation as they reveal the whole story of their formative intercultural experiences, story writing processes, and how both have shaped their rich narrative worlds.
Diana Nguyen is an actor, writer and comedian whose creative body of work explores themes of identity, belonging and cultural complexities within Vietnamese-Australian families. Diana has performed internationally, appeared on ABC’s Q&A and created the multi-award-winning web-series ‘Phi and Me’, which The Age called a Top 5 show to watch in 2019.
Osamah Sami describes himself as a failed cricketer and a struggling Muslim. Osamah writes authentic characters who often grapple with “the good lie” - living in conflict between family expectations and personal desires in a multicultural upbringing. His work includes ‘Good Muslim Boy’ (2015), which won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2015, and ‘Ali’s Wedding’ (2017) which won Best Original Screenplay at the AACTA Awards.