THEATRE

Li Xie
Director

A freelance theatre practitioner and mask-maker, Li Xie performs, writes, directs and has taught acting and movement in LASALLE College of the Arts. She is also the associate artist of Drama Box. The actor-creator has undergone training from Odin Teatret, "Biomechanics" by Bodganov Gennadi (Russia), "Alexander Technique" by Niamh Dowling (UK), "Commedia Dell'arte" by Antonio Fava (Italy) and "Theatre of the Oppressed" workshops by Headlines Theatre (Canada) and has learnt mask making from Donato Sartori (Italy). Formerly the Associate Artistic Director of Drama Box for its community theatre, Li Xie has directed and facilitated forum theatre pieces, working with youth and inmates from Singapore Selarang Drug Rehabilitation Centre.

Her recent directorial works include the restaging of the late Kuo Pao Kun's The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole, during Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2010; House of Sins (2008) which won her Best Director award in the Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards; touring the communities with newspaper theatre News Busters! since 2007 and the critically acclaimed one woman performance The vaginaLOGUE, which was voted the Best Play of the Year (2000) and it has participated as a visual installation in 2013 Singapore Biennale.

Li Xie was awarded the Young Artist Award by National Arts Council (Singapore) in 2005.

身兼编剧，导演，演员数职于一身，李邪致力研究和教导俄国大师梅耶荷德的表演体系——生物机械学。她编导的作品包括《极乐世界》、《绿帽王》、《小白船》、《棺材太大洞太小》、《阴道独白》。此外，李邪开创的新闻剧场《大歹纪》，多次在邻里巡回演出。2006年，她获颁国家艺术理事会的青年艺术家奖，也凭《极乐世界》获颁《海峡时报》“生活！戏剧奖”的最佳导演。