Pao-Chang Tsai

Pao-Chang Tsai is a Taiwanese theatre maker, playwright, director and performer. He studied Drama & Theatre at National Taiwan University and received his MA in Music Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in Choreography and Performance at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

From 2009 to 2018, Tsai served as Co-Artistic Director of Tainaner Ensemble alongside Po-Shen Lu, jointly leading one of Taiwan’s leading contemporary theatre companies. Over the years, he has worked across theatre, dance and music, collaborating with artists and companies in Taiwan and internationally.

Tsai is also known for his six-hour episodic theatre work K24 (CHAOS), which became a landmark production in contemporary Taiwanese theatre. His solo performance Solo Date premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016 and was subsequently invited to international festivals including Ars Electronica and the San Francisco International Arts Festival. In 2023, his production Reality No-Show earned him a nomination for Best Playwright at the Taipei Theatre Awards and was later adapted into Cantonese and German-language productions.

Alongside his theatre practice, Tsai works as a screenwriter and director for film and television. His recent screen projects include Netflix’s Forget You Not, for which he served as co-writer, and Amazon’s Islanders, which he co-wrote and co-directed. For Islanders, he won Best Director at the 2026 ContentAsia Awards. His artistic practice moves between theatre, performance and screen-based storytelling, with a strong interest in international exchange and cross-cultural collaboration.