KUAN-YU STANLEY LIN

Theater Director

 

Stanley Lin is a theater director, based in New York and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Prior to Central, he received training from a number of directing programs, including Harvard University and the Juilliard School. He is most known for a blend of collaborative devising approaches and minimalistic aesthetics through an attention to movement, sound and spectatorship in realizing theatrical endeavors. As a theater director, he is fascinated by the power of live performance to penetrate the hearts of both the performers and the audience. He believes that theater would be a perfect platform to celebrate humanity and human being if the artists could take more risks, challenging themselves and the audience to think and discuss and––from the discussion––to learn who they really are.

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Stanley has a particular passion for, and expertise with tackling classical and contemporary texts in a creative form. He hopes the audience not to interpret the productions using their prior knowledge, but to have a sense of déjà vu, that is, to re-experience the stories and interrogate them from another angle, which might inspire them to go beyond and see how a whole area of living experience that seems close to their own concerns is also close to the concerns of the people in the world around them. 

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Having completed the UK tour of A Night at 64 Emptiness Lane, Stanley is now looking to form a theater network, dedicated to Asian new writings by emerging playwrights around the world, to celebrate the particularities of both traditional and contemporary Asian ethos. From 2012 to 2015, he was the Artistic Director of the Theater Department at Tainan Holiness Church, where he led on 11 original cabarets and directed 8 productions.