LADA Screens: Lucy Sheen

Biographies

Jennifer Lim is an actor, filmmaker, theatre maker and artistic director of Moongate. Jennifer’s theatre work includes Worth (Arcola/Storyhouse Chester), The Key Workers Cycle – Midwives Story (Almeida), Freedom Hi! (Vaults), World Factory HOME), Citizens of Nowhere (Edinburgh/Southbank Centre), Wild Swans (Young Vic/ American Repertory Theatre), The Good Person of Setzuan (National Theatre), Into The Numbers (Finborough). Her film work includes Leviathan by Shezad Dawood, British People – The Uncertain Kingdom Anthology, A Monster Calls, Hostel, Act of Grace, When Evil Calls, Piercing Brightness, Code 46 and she recently completed filming The Monster Beneath Us and Say His Name. Her TV work includes Holby City, The League of Gentlemen, Spirit Warriors, Strangers.

Rosa Fong is an award-winning filmmaker. Her films have garnered accolades from the British Film Institute, Arts Council of England and UK Film Council. She has directed programmes for BBC and Channel 4 television. Her recent directing credits include BEAST short film, a series of films using verbatim dialogue. Deconstructing Zoe, her feature length documentary was selected for the Hong Kong LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Rosa is credited as Associate Producer of Cut Sleeve Boys (2006), Front Cover (2015), which screened at Seattle Film Festival, and Suk Suk (2019). She is currently in development with her feature length screenplay called Sigh of the Sea, based on the true story about the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen after the Second World War.

Lucy Sheen is an actor, writer, filmmaker and director. Being a transracial adoptee (TRA) of Hong-Kong Chinese and Dai minority heritage (BESEA), her work focuses on personal experience as a British person of dual heritage and explores the lack of home and belonging, the idea of roots, and identity both from within a community and externally. Her mission and passion are the centring, sharing and elevation of narratives about British East and Southeast Asians, so that their history and contributions to this country are rendered visible. Lucy graduated from the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in ‘84. Her first acting job was the female lead in the Brit feature Ping Pong (1986). Other acting credits include Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic, Joint Stock, RSC, Eastenders, Casualty, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Shadow & Bone, Witcher. She has received commissions from The Royal Court, ArtsEd and The Globe, and is active on stage and screen.

Born in Vietnam with Chinese Heritage, Moi Tran is an artist based in the UK with training and background in Fine Art and Theatre. Her multidisciplinary practice as an artist, researcher, performance maker and designer explores the intersections between contemporary art and live performance.