Chye-Ling Huang

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Chye-Ling Huang is a 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.

Aside from PAT productions, her recent acting credits include The Mooncake and the Kumara, (Auckland Art's Festival and national tour) Te Waka Huia (NZ tour), Homebound 3.0 (TV3) War Stories (telefeature), Sui Generis and Shortland St.

As a writer, Chye-Ling’s awards 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 was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Literary Fellowship for 2019 to work on two plays and was shortlisted for London based Yellow Earth’s yearly script competition 2019 for Orientation, and had Black Tree Bridge shortlisted for the Adam play award in 2020. 

For film, Chye-Ling created The Han Chronicles, a two episode TVNZ webseries, and created Life is Easy, a TVNZ webseries she co-wrote and starred in, also hosted on international platform Rervy. She was awarded NZFC development funding for her first feature in 2020 and won a Fresh Shorts slot in 2023 for production on a short film about trauma in the body. Chye-Ling produced Three Dots, a 3 minute film by Alyssa Medel in 2021 and shot The Space of An Afternoon across Bangkok and Auckland in 2022.

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).

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

Watch:

• Asian Men Talk About Sex

• The Han Chronicles

• Three Dots

• The Space of An Afternoon

• The Elephant in the Bedroom: 5 short docos

• Happiness is the Path (trailer)

Listen:

• The Elephant in the Bedroom