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Cinthia Chen (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, theatermaker, and creative technologist working across image-making, performance, and multimedia installation to explore memory, identity, and imagined futures. Rooted in the Taiwanese queer diaspora, her practice is shaped by borderlands and hybridity. She approaches art as research and ritual—resisting normative frameworks while creating multiple access points for engagement.
Her original works have been developed and presented by Mabou Mines, More Art, Theater Mitu, Fault Line Theater, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and the Asian American Arts Alliance. She was a 2025-26 Lincoln Center Collider Fellow and is a member of the Obie Award–winning company Theater Mitu. With Mitu she also co-facilitates their Hybrid Arts Lab fellowship program.
Her theatrical projection design work has been recognized by La MaMa’s Design Fest 2020, the USITT Prague Quadrennial 2023, the Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, and NYSCA. Projects include: SALESMAN之死 (Connelly Theater), MY MAN KONO (ART/New York), LANGUAGE CITY (Little Island), THE HEALING SHIPMENT (La Mama), WHITE RAVEN BLACK DOVE (Strand Theater Boston), and AMERICAN (TELE)VISIONS (NYTW, asst. designer).