Hung Chien-Han Hung Chien-Han
Artist and theatre director, core member of 明日和合製作所, and currently an adjunct lecturer in directing in the School of Theatre Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Hung's recent work has been presented at festivals in Taiwan and abroad. In 2025 Hung was invited as an artist in residence at the Manchester International Festival in the UK, and Hung previously took part in the artist residency exchange between the National Theater & Concert Hall (NTCH), Taiwan, and Teatre Lliure in Barcelona. Hung's production “The Little Road Decides to Go Far Away” (小路決定要去遠方) was shortlisted for Best Production and Best Director at the inaugural Taipei Theatre Awards.
Recent major works include “FAMILY TRIANGLE: Two Begets Three, Three Begets All Things” (FAMILY TRIANGLE：二生三，三生萬物) at the Taipei Arts Festival; “I Have a Question?” (我，有一個問題？) at the Tainan Arts Festival; “Mother Once Gazed Upon You” (母親凝視過你), a finalist for the 2025 Taipei Art Awards; the sibling trilogy “Three Begets All Things” (三生萬物), “The Grandmother Paradox” (祖母悖論) and “Family Romance” (家庭浪漫); and “Half Immortal” (半仙) at the Taiwan International Festival of Arts. “Once Never” (曾經未曾) and “死死免了米” were shortlisted for the Taishin Arts Award's top ten performing arts works, and other works have received multiple nominations. Hung was named one of the 2019 People of the Year by PAR Performing Arts Review. “Once Never” won first prize in the Young Theatre Artists Competition at the 2015 Wuzhen Theatre Festival, and was selected by the Ministry of Culture for the Taiwan Season at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Hung has collaborated with or been commissioned by the National Theater & Concert Hall, the Taipei Performing Arts Center, the Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, C-LAB, Nuit Blanche Taipei and others.
Hung's work focuses on reshaping and orchestrating the relationship between performers and audience. Through multisensory experience and spatial narrative, it experiments continually between “everyday experience” and “active production,” in search of new possibilities.