Tiantian Xie

Profile

Project Title: Staging Postsocialist China: Place, Audience and Production.

Supervisors: Professor Martin Welton and Dr Michael Shane Boyle.

Previous qualifications:

MFA Performance Practice as Research, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2017-2019).

BA Acting, Chongqing University (2012-2016).

Outstanding Studentship at the Department of Drama & Theatre at National Taiwan University (2014-2015).

Teaching

I have been working as an MA Tutor on the Creative Project modules for the MA Performance – Acting & Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Research

Research Interests:

Contemporary Chinese theatre and performance,

Audience engagement and spectatorship,

Festivals and Curatorial Practices,

Cultural Policy, Censorship, and Cultural Governance,

Theatre Economics and Real Estate.

Publications

Beijing Youth Arts Review, Reviews of Aranya Theatre Festival’s International Programme, July 2024.

Critical Stages, Southern Dance Hall: Movement and Community in Post-Pandemic Guangzhou, June 2024. ISSN 2409-7411.

New Drama, Reflections on the 2023 Avignon Theatre Festival, November 2023. ISSN 1003-8043.

Public Engagement

I work in creative producing and artistic curation, with a particular focus on international theatre and performance production, audience engagement, and public communication.

My recent engagements include SMG Live, Aranya Theatre Festival, China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Guangzhou Opera House, Shenzhen Poly Theatre, Drum Tower West Theatre, and Ergao Dance Production Group (China). Punchdrunk, Performance Infinity, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Canal Dream Art Festival (UK). 706 Berlin (Germany) and HYBRIDITÉS France-CHINE, La Compagnie Caravelle (France).