CHIEN Li-ying
Artistic Director & Playwright
Content Director at DaMou Entertainment and KOKO Entertainment. A theater and film professional with over 30 stage productions as playwright and director. Named one of the “Theater Figures of the Year” by Performing Arts Redefine in 2012; Artist-in-Residence at the National Theater and Concert Hall in 2015; Invited artist at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York for the “Writing Taiwan Queer” program in 2018; and Artist-in-Residence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Published works include the play collections Spring Sleep, Dress in Code, and The Possible Memoirs of a Traito, as well as the original story for the graphic novel Tender Is the Night. Recent works include: co-writer of the Netflix series Wave Makers (winner of Best Miniseries at the 2023 Golden Bell Awards); producer and script supervisor for the stage play Before Outdated; and script consultant for Don't Cry, Dancing Girls.