Fan Yi
Previous Projects
The Reaper and The Whale (2021)
An intimate, dark, and sarcastic play on capitalism and death. Experimental form on YouTube streaming.
Irene Fan Yi as Dramaturg
Christopher Elizabeth as Playwright
World Premiere at Davis Shakespeare Festival
The Pillowman (2020)
The play contains both narrations and reenactments of several of Katurian's stories, including the autobiographical "The Writer and the Writer's Brother", which tells how Katurian developed his disturbed imagination by hearing the sounds of Michal being tortured by their parents.
Irene Fan Yi as Director
Martin McDoangh as Playwright
Presented by Heping Theatre Society
Produced at Indiana University Bloomington
Night, Mother (2019)
The play is about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma. The subsequent dialogue between Jessie and Mama slowly reveals her reasons for her decision, her life with Mama, and how thoroughly she has planned her own death.
Irene Fan Yi as Director and Performer
Martha Norman as Playwright
Presented by Wuhan University Shakespeare Drama Club
I AM A Moon (2018)
Under the metaphor of “moon” - the beautiful, bright ball isolated in the sky that reveals thousands of craters only when you come closer – the play weaves a poetic and darkly humorous journey into the beauty of our ugly side.
Irene Fan Yi as Director and Performer
Zhu Yi as Playwright
Presented by Wuhan University Shakespeare Drama Club
The Bystander Game · 一种旁观 (2018)
Among the ruins, we gaze:
Is it devastation we see? A funeral? A forgotten epitaph?
Staged Reading, Co-produced with Zongdian Theatre Society
Written by Hu Xuanyi