Chye-Ling Huang

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Chye-Ling Huang is a queer Chinese-Pakeha writer, director, actress and co-founder & director of Proudly Asian Theatre company and a relentless advocate for professional Asian visibility, empowerment and centering stories of queer POC.

Chye-Ling’s highlights include Playmarket’s ‘Asian Ink’ 2017 for Orientation, an Adam Play Award nominee 2018 and winner of the Auckland Theatre Award for most original production that year, which she also directed. She has undertaken residencies as a Grimshaw Sargeson Literary Fellow and in Xiamen, China, and recently won Asian Ink 2024 for Henderson Changes a Lightbulb.

For film, highlights include creating The Han Chronicles, a two episode TVNZ webseries, comedy series Camp Be Better on TVNZ, producing Three Dots, a 3 minute film by Alyssa Medel and The Space of An Afternoon, a short shot across Bangkok and Auckland in 2022 during the pandemic.

Her other directing works include Asian Men Talk About Sex, a popular Loading Docs short documentary, Like Sex and PAT’s Roots and Orientation.

Chye-Ling and James Roque created an award winning 5 part podcast about sex, love and race produced by PAT and Notable Pictures, called The Elephant in the Bedroom in 2022, where she directed 5 short docos to accompany the series.

As a puppeteer, Chye-Ling has interned with veteran contemporary puppetry company The Finger Players (Singapore) and has worked on multiple film and theatre productions including Just above the Clouds and The Last Man on Earth is Trapped in a Supermarket, (Melbourne puppetry festival), The Whale Rider (kids stage adaptation) and Sweet Tooth (pilot).

Aside from PAT productions, her acting highlights include The Mooncake and the Kumara, (Auckland Art's Festival and national tour), Homebound 3.0 (TV3), Sui Generis and Shortland St.

Chye-Ling is signed with Auckland Actors, is a member of Equity NZ and a founding member of the Pan-Asian Screen Collective.

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The Elephant in the Bedroom