Nai Wen Chang

Chang Nai Wen has lived in Germany for 18 years. She was the first Asian student to be accepted for the drama theater directing program at the Theaterakademie Hamburg and has been seen as a Taiwanese director in the spoken word theaters of the German-speaking world. This experience led her to question the politics around her and consider how to create an environment that was less hierarchical and more about collaboration and diversity. In 2008, she founded "SdF - Sisyphus, the Flying Elephant" in Berlin, an independent project-based transcultural group specializing in immersive, participatory and interactive creation. In 2010, she was invited to participate in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab in New York, which inspired her to pursue the idea of collaboration between international directors. Thus, in 2011 she became a co-founder of the international directors' collective "World Wide Lab" with 12 other directors from 9 countries. As an internationally working artist, Nai Wen prefers a creative process that uses her artistic muscles along with her cross-cultural insights to create works that encourage dialogue and reveal different perspectives. In addition to her artistic work, she is a strong advocate for a cultural environment of equality, inclusion, and diversity.