Hong Kong Exile Artist Bios

CREATIVE TEAM

ellis cheadle is a theatre artist living and working on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh nations. She holds a BFA Honours in Theatre Performance from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and a diploma from Mount Royal University’s acting conservatory program. cheadle is a collaborator, writer, director and dramaturg with a practice focused on devised and experimental theatre. She is drawn to slow creation processes and is increasingly dedicated to making malleable theatrical set-lists that can responsively adapt to requirements of scale, duration, location and collaborator curiosities. Recently, cheadle’s work has been shared at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Hold on Let Go, Boombox, Exquisite Pressure, Festival de Casteliers, Schaubude Berlin, Centre A Gallery and the rEvolver Theatre Festival. She is also a Registered Massage Therapist.

Natalie Tin Yin Gan (顏婷妍) is an independent dance artist, writer and facilitator based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She has performed and presented work in Asia, Europe, and across Canada. Her practice squats at the intersection of diasporic dissonance, somatics and technology-induced melancholy. Gan is Co-Artistic Director of company Hong Kong Exile and the smaller half of vulva clown duo Pulsive Party. She is an award-winning Narrative Designer of the critically acclaimed video game 1000xRESIST. She is also a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a body-centred and trauma-aware approach to the voice. Gan is the younger daughter of a mother from Hong Kong and a father from Malaysia. She speaks Cantonese poorly and proudly. nataliegan.com

Juolin Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian dance artist who is fascinated by the transformative power of the arts. She feels fortunate to live on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. Lee’s understandings of dance were influenced by her engagement with the artists and companies she greatly admirers, such as The Biting School, Hong Kong Exile, Co.Erasga, Odd Meridian Arts and Battery Opera. Lee is drawn to the connections between the living and the non-living matter, the spaces she inhabits and the stories she inherits. Through openness and curiosity, Lee wishes to continuously unpack her idea of self and her relationship with the world. juolin.com

Alex Mah is an interdisciplinary art-maker, composer and improvisor in dance and music. He composes weirdo experimental music, embodied text scores and sometimes sweet songs for dance and theatre. He is grateful to have worked with Hong Kong Exile since 2022 and Natalie Gan since they were undergrads. With an SFU BFA and MRes from Bath Spa Uni (U.K.), he is fond of folk music, loves a good cheesecake and prefers taking things slowly.

Alex Tam is a Vancouver–based dance artist working on the unceded, traditional Coast Salish territory. Tam started as an actor for commercial, film and theatre. At the age of fifteen, Tam received his dance education at Arts Umbrella, graduated from Modus Operandi and studied Fine Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Dean’s Honour Roll). Over a decade, he has performed works by: Hong Kong Exile, Aeriosa, Corporeal Imago, Wen Wei Dance, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, Crystal Pite, Company 605, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Mascall Dance, Science Friction, Joe Laughlin, Kinesis Dance, Serge Bennathan amd Karissa Barry. He has toured and performed both independently and collectively at international dance festivals in Canada, the United States of America, South America, Croatia and Taiwan. Recently he completed a mentorship with former Cirque du Soleil principle aerialist Gabrielle Martin and now co-teaches vertical dance and rope. When Tam is not dancing, he practices the art of healing.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Stage Manager Agnes Hui is an emerging stage manager in town, as well as a veteran arts and cultural event planner. A settler from Hong Kong, she is currently based in so-called Vancouver, the ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Notable stage management credits include Residuals (住み‧墨) (2024 Tour) by Shion Skye Carter; La Mitchin di Mitchif (2024) by V’ni Dansi; PLUNGE Mentorship Project (2023) by The Falling Company; and Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! ONLINE by Davey Samuel Calderon at rEvolver Festival 2023. Hui is a key member of Vancouver–based nonprofit HK House. Dedicated to diaspora community building and the preservation of Hong Kong culture, the volunteer collective is the proud organizer of the annual Vancouver Hong Kong Fair.

Assistant Stage Manager Kady Yeung is an emerging theatre artist who recently graduated from Studio 58’s Production Program. Growing up surrounded by various forms of arts and music, she eventually found her love in theatre and now curates art as a multidisciplinary artist, with interest mainly in stage management, production management and sound design. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she is endlessly grateful to be accepted and to be allowed to reside and share her art on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Recent credits includes: East Van Panto: Robin Hood (Production Intern: Producing and Technical Direction, Theatre Replacement), Into the Woods (Stage Manager, Studio 58) and Ring of Fire (Apprentice Sound Designer, Arts Club Theatre Company). You can find out more about her work on Instagram @kadyworkshere.