Ran Xia

Ran Xia is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller, permanent and willing captive of the realm of imagination. She is interested in the immediate, collaborative, and political nature of theatre and uses whatever material at hand to tell stories that matter. She is often drawn to the romantics of both arts and science. Visual arts projects include Art Takes Times Square, Stories of the Creative (SEE.ME), Dacia Gallery (Times Square Arts Centre), Spiegel Me (Installation at Fountains Foundation, Columbia College, Chicago). Her theatre credits include [ai] (An adaptation of Ayn Rand's Novella Anthem at Brick Theater). She's done several projects at Dixon Place: North (Playwright), They Lived in the Attic (Playwright, Dir.), [ai] (Script/Director), Tabula Rasa (Playwright / Director / Production Sound Designer), and Word Play (Playwright, Dir. Florence Le Bas). Her shorts: Heavenly Bodies Move in Space and The Invisible of the Sidewalk both won first prizes at MITF's short play lab. Set design credits in NYC: Animals Out of Papers (by Rajiv Joseph, set designer); July House (Fringe NYC 2015, Set Design).
Ran has been hosting the Cold Reading series initiated by TIA in Shanghai since her temporary relocation to China in September, 2015.


With THEATER IN ASYLUM: The Debates, Cold Readings

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