Mengqi He
Performer Playwright Calligrapher Actress DesignerMengqi He is a bilingual Chinese performer and writer. She is part of the 2021 Royal Court Theatre Writer's group, and her work Good Citizens Don't Think, a work-in-progress reading, was performed at Pleasance as part of Fringe Future Festival in June 2021. She had been granted DYCP from Arts Council England and 503 Theatre bursary to develop her writing.
In 2020, Mengqi performed in Paper Daughter as part of New Stories: A Digital Short Play Festival with New Earth Theatre, directed by Jasmine Yeo. She was also selected as one of the artists in 'Oracles in Sepia' with Compass Presents, using Chinese Calligraphy and visual arts to tell stories set during the pandemic across the UK and China.
Credits
Performer, Writer, Producer - Happy Together (Work-in Progress), Omnibus Theatre, 1 day 2022Performer, Writer - Good Citizens Don't Think (Work-in Progress) , Pleasance, 1 day, 2021
Performer - Paper Daughter by Kevin Shen, New Earth Theatre 2020
Training
RADA Shakespeare Summer School - 2018Royal Central School of Speech and Drama - Theatre Practice 2013-2016
Location
LondonExperience
2-5 years
Art forms / Disciplines
- AR / VR
- Film - feature
- Film - short
- Literature
- Live art
- Theatre / Live perfomance
- TV - drama
- Visual arts
What I do
- Performance Art
- Performing
- Producing
- Writing
Additional Languages
Mandarin
