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Yibin Wang was born and raised in Hangzhou, China.
He has been creating original theatrical works in China, the U.S., and internationally. He co-wrote and directed The Family, a play that portrays two familiar yet foreign forms of the Chinese family, premiered at the Old Gym Theater, in 2017. In the summer of 2018, according to the original stories and other resources, he re-devised The Family and brought it back to his hometown at 201 Sheng-qi Studio. After that, he met the opportunity to found the Character Group with the original cast of the production. Currently, the Character Group is coming up with a new original work about the local Hangzhou dialect. He also conceived and directed Those of Us, a documentary piece at the Old Gym Theater in 2018. In 2019, he researched the postdramatic theater in Germany and directed Snow White and Charges by Elfriede Jelinek at the Factory, Berlin. On February 2020, he finished his senior project, Our Grandparents/旧识, which he co-wrote and directed based on the creators' memories with their grandparents. After the pandemic, he is been continuing to work around the "realness on stage" through adaptation pieces like The Vanya Project and A Hunger Artist; the "liveness in theater" through pieces like A Theater Letter To You that explore the boundary and agreement with the audience. Other recent artistic credits include 2021 Design Care Project (Co-Curator) and 2020 B.O.N.D. International Virtual Performance Festival (Associate Artistic Director). Recent assistant credits include Music for New Bodies, This Body Is So Permanent, Médée (dir. Peter Sellars); Promenade (dir. Morgan Green); The Mother's Story (dir. CHIA). He is also interested in the human narratives in physicality and technology in theatrical space and the difference between the east and west in this field. BA in Theater and Performance, Bard College. MFA in Theatre Directing, Columbia University. Yibin Wang's CV Here |
