Her focus lays mainly within Black, East and South East Asian (ESEA) and South Asian theatre work, new writing and promoting diversity, representation and accessibility on and off stage and in positions of power and leadership.
Tian is now working at the Young Vic as a Jerwood Assistant Director on Further than the Furthest Thing written by Zinnie Harris and directed by Jennifer Tang. Assistantships and Traineeships are a key part of the Young Vic’s Jerwood Artist Development Pathway. This Pathway is generously support by Jerwood Developing Artists Fund.
Directing credits include:
Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); In the Black Fantastic (Southbank Centre); Days of Significance (Arts Ed); For Her还装什么男子汉 (Chinese Arts Now Festival); Different Book Covers (Tamasha); Lost Laowais (VAULT Festival); Jollof Court (Bunker Theatre); Embalmers and The Lost Boys (Theatre503).
Associate/ Assistant Directing credits include:
A Dead Body in Taos (Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Wilton’s Music Hall, Warwick Arts Centre); Moreno (Theatre503); Gin Craze! (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); Does My Bomb Look Big in This? (Soho Theatre, Tara Arts); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre, Tara Arts); and Forgotten遗忘 (Arcola Theatre)
