Talk and Q+A with Mingyu Lin (Resident Artist at York Theatre Royal)
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Mingyu Lin is a director for stage and screen whose current project is A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction at York Theatre Royal. In this conversation with Catherine Love-Smith, Lecturer in Theatre in the School of ACT, Mingyu will talk about her experience of working on this innovative experiment in eco theatre-making. The discussion will also cover Mingyu's other directing work and how she established herself in the industry. This will be followed by an open Q&A.
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Mingyu Lin
Ming is a director for stage and screen, she's a Resident Artist at York Theatre Royal and Reader for Traverse Theatre and the Bruntwood Prize. She was a recipient of Living Pictures’ Directors' Bursary, Creative Associate at Headlong and founding member of BESEA advocacy group BEATS. Ming trained at RCSSD and is a Royal Court Writers' Program alumna.
For screen, she directs for Hollyoaks and has won finalist awards for Sundance Shorts, Sci-Fi London, Pilot Festival, Enter the Pitch and ITN's Nativity Factor. For audio, she has directed Out Of The Woods (Tamasha) and Waiting For A Chance To Turn (Futures Theatre), which was a Women's Podcast Award finalist and Silver Anthem Award Winner.
For stage she has directed the Offie-nominated Does My Bomb Look Big In This (Soho Theatre). Select stage directing credits include: Sovereign (York Theatre Royal), Worth (Arcola/Storyhouse Chester), Onigoro Valley (Royal Court Theatre/playread), Overheard (York Theatre Royal/Nottingham Lakeside), Babel (ArtsEd), Lòng Mẹ (Vaults 2020), Silently Hoping (Vaults 2019) and No Bond So Strong (mac Birmingham).
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