Playwrights
2024/25 Resident Artist
Chiao-Jung Chen
Chiao-Jung Chen is a versatile storyteller active across Taiwan and Macau, with her work spanning theatre, musicals, and manga.
In Taiwan, her play The Thousand-Year Itch won the 2025 Taiwan Literature Award, while My Sister’s Keeper was a finalist for the same award in 2015. Her prominent musical credits include i WEIRDO and I Hate Musical.
In Macau, her practice focuses on local identity and socio-historical narratives. Notable works include Sunset at the Shipyards and The Flying Fisherwomen. Her plays Sunset at the Shipyard and Let No One Sleep were both selected for the Macao Arts Festival. She published her first collection, Flâneur on the Sea: Two Plays by Chen Chiao-Jung, in Macau in 2024.
Beyond the stage, Chen is dedicated to exploring new frontiers in narrative through interdisciplinary experimentation. Her collaboration with manga artist Monday Recover, titled Sea You There and Us, was awarded the Silver Award at the Japan International Manga Award. The work has been licensed and translated into Japanese, English, French, Russian, Malay, and Vietnamese.
Selected Works
2025 The Thousand-Year Itch
Writer
Prologue New Play Festival
Taiwan
2024 Flâneur on the Sea: Two Plays by Chen Chiao Jung
Macau
2023 A Blessing to the Future of Hers, Taiwan
Retrospective Exhibition: Presidential Office Building Projection Mapping Show
Writer & Lyricist
Taiwan
2023 Ballad on Water: A Theater of Saltwater Songs Back to the 60s
Writer
Macau
2023 i WEIRDO: A Musical
Book & Lyrics
Studio M
Taiwan
2022 I Hate Musical
Book & Lyrics
TPAC Opening Season
Taiwan
2022 The Flying Fisherwoman
Writer
Macau
Honors & Awards
2025 The Thousand-Year Itch
Writer
Taiwan Literature Award
2023 Sea You There and Us
Comics Writer
Silver Award
Japan International Manga Award
2015 My Sister's Keeper
Writer
Finalist
Taiwan Literature Award
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Last updated: February 2026