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I Have a Dream in Chinese
Development
Staged Reading, The Advance Theatre Festival, Vancouver, January 26th, 2026
Produced by Ruby Slipper Theatre, Associated with Playwright Guild of Canada and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Directed by Daisy Mengru Jia
Performed by Huirui Zhang Su
Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival, Ottawa, June 18-28, 2026
Directed by Daisy Mengru Jia
Starring Charlee Ning 宁唯而
Sound Design: Nick Fangzheng Wang
Projection Design: Noel Pandawa
Stage Manager: Ziqi Liu
Presented by Liquid on Stage
A Yu Theatre Toronto Production
Staged Reading with design, MADGEN Festival, Toronto, August 20th-22nd, 2026
Presented by Theatre of the Beat
Directed by Huirui Zhang su
Produced by Eric Trudell
Performed by Daibei Wang & Shuyi Jia
Lighting and Sound Design by Eshan Kumar
Dramaturg by Mya Wong
Stage Management by Jeanie Nie
Production Management by Kay Wong
Award
Honoured Mention, Human Migration Literary Award (2025)
Outstanding Design, Ottawa Fringe (2026)
I hear a scream. I’m back in the windowless workplace. I’m in the chair. Who are you. One interrogation after another. Then I’m standing on the chair, waving a piece of paper, until the chair disappears beneath me. I’m falling, falling, falling, and then — the sound of the sea.
It is a dream. Or it is not.
I have a dream in Chinese is a bilingual play moving through migration, racialization, and the unstable border between memory and survival.