Gender:
Female
Heritage:
Chinese
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2014 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Slow Boat physical theatre based on my father's journey to Australia in WW2 with 580 Chinese men.
- 2014 recipient Creative Industries Career Fund to attend workshops run by multimedia Artist George Pinn, which explore interactive performance via motion tracking technology. These workshops will culminate in Electric Dragon which will be performed in Federation Square Melbourne as part of the Chinese New Year creative program.
Awards for Works
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Slow Boat 緩舟
2022
Fortitude Valley
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Playlab
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2022
23456788
2022
single work
drama
'‘Brotherhood is easy when things run smoothly. But when someone causes hurt, this is where it’s tested.’
'To celebrate Victory in the Pacific, five indentured Chinese workers are staging a theatre show at Brisbane’s Bulimba Dockyards.
'The men aim to weave an epic tale of brotherhood and resilience, charting their journey from poverty and war in rural China, through hard work on the tiny phosphate-rich island of Nauru, to a hasty evacuation from the Japanese to Australia, and all the challenges that they overcame on the way. However, differing perspectives of critical events in their story threaten to derail this display of unity to become the one thing that could tear them apart.
'Blending vaudeville, musical theatre, circus, Cantonese Opera and martial arts, Slow Boat is inspired by the unexpected arrival in Australia of playwright Anna Yen’s father, along with 580 other Chinese men, during WWII.'
Source: Playlab Theatre.
- 2022 shortlisted Matilda Awards — Best Mainstage Production
- 2018-2019 finalist Queensland Premier's Drama Award
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