Lili Chin is a British-Chinese-Singaporean performer, theatre-maker and artist from South London. With a degree in European theatre practice from Rose Bruford College, and a background in physical theatre, Lili’s work traverses theatre, film, music, live art and dance.

Interested in post-colonial diasporic identity and mycelial networks, Lili’s work reflects the nuances of their home city and lived experience, often featuring sound as a central character and intersectionality as a thematic nucleus. Their self-produced piece malaise/watching the moon was programmed by BIFALD Festival in Denmark in 2022: a theatrical and multi-disciplinary experimentation collaging physical theatre, disc jockeying of music, film projection and poetry.

In addition, Lili has also worked as an actor and performer across commercials, films, theatre and performance art. Her credits involve Rain Pours like Coffee Drops at the Volcano Theatre in Swansea, as well as performing in Unforgettable Girl by Created a Monster theatre as part of the London Voila Festival. She recently performed in a live art piece created by Kelvin Atmadabrita at the YDP Gallery’s Living Rehearsing exhibition in London. She trained with the Czech dance company Divaldo Continuo in 2021, and has worked as a workshop facilitator and access support worker, interested in continuing to explore the potential of community building, inclusion and grassroots art participation.

When not thespianing, Lili is a DJ and music selector with a monthly residency at EFG’s Jazz in the Round sessions at the Cockpit Theatre. She is an obsessive music digger, heavily interested in soundsystem culture and the intersecting nature of London’s musical subcultures.

Lili is also a devoted capoeirista (practitioner of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art). Despite her evidently sporadic artistic attention span, she is a singularly focused cat lover, and will emphatically stay South of the river for as long as time permits.