Zhui Ning is an award-winning director, dramaturg, librettist, and producer. She creates across form and genre, with experience in new plays, music theatre, devising, and audio drama. She has a keen interest in intercultural performance, sociopolitical narratives, decolonial histories, and speculative futures.

 

As Director: Asian Pirate Musical (Pleasance Theatre R&D), A Game Not Lost (Ryder Productions, VAULT 2023), Accidental Heist (Quick & Bold Festival, Singapore), Calm (Creating Apart), Us Against the World (Broccoli Arts), Pareidolia (Tamasha Theatre), Kami (New Earth Theatre), The Grand March (Fresh Lime Soda Productions), Wired (Theatre503), Tango (New Earth Theatre), Tamasha Scratch Night (Soho Theatre), Bin Juice (Bunker Thetare), Inside Voices (VAULT 2019), and more.

 

As Librettist/Lyricist: Seashore Yuanfen (Musical Theatre Darkroom, MGCfutures, and Broccoli Arts), Asian Pirate Musical (Papergang Theatre).

 

As Producer: Global Voices Podcast, Anti-School of Theatre, Global Jewish Voices (Bush Theatre), Global Latin American Voices (Roundhouse), Global Black Voices (Roundhouse), Global Indigenous Voices (British Library), Global Queer Voices 2.0 (Arcola Theatre), Global Arab Female Voices (Rich Mix), Global Female Voices (Arcola Theatre). Previously, Assistant Producer at Summer Rolls (Park Theatre / Bristol Old Vic) and Iris Theatre.

 

As Reader: Royal Court Theatre, Woven Voices Playwriting Award, Science Fiction Theatre Festival, Global Voices Theatre.

 

As Workshop Leader: Foreign Affairs, Woven Voices, Flux Theatre, Young Vic, RYTDS, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and more. Founding member of Migrants in Theatre and committee member at the British East and Southeast Asian Media Network.

 

Zhui Ning has been selected for various artist schemes, residencies, and grants, including: Emergency Academy 2022-24, Musical Theatre Darkroom, MGCfutures Bursary Award,d Rising Waves mentorship, Tamasha Directors' Programme, New Earth Theatre Writers' Programme, British Council IETM Bursary Award.