Irene Fan Yi - Playwright & Dramaturg 

Her work moves between text, sound, projection, and movement, and explores migration, language, historical violence, identity, and the ways power is internalized, mediated, and remembered. Her recent playwriting projects include I Have a Dream in Chinese, Human Acts (76 Days), Space Unknown, An Unfinished Portrait of Her, THE HOTPOT, and Can You Hear the Birds Sing? Her work has been developed and presented through the Ruby Slippers Theatre’s Advance Theatre Festival, Ottawa Fringe Festival, Theatre of the Beat’s MADGEN Festival, Black Theatre Workshop’s Club Zed Playwright Festival, YuTheatre Toronto, rice and beans theatre’s Polyphonic Residency, Digital Dramaturgical Program, Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, and fu-Gen Theatre.

 

Her broader theatre practice includes working as a dramaturg, director, and performer on productions such as The Reaper and The Whale (Davis Shakespeare Festival), The Pillowman (Indiana University Bloomington), and Night, Mother (Wuhan University).

 

Based in Ottawa/Toronto, Ontario, Canada.