Christopher Lam 林子榮 is a Chinese-Canadian director/actor/playwright who is based on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver. His productions includes the West Coast Canadian premiere of Stiles’ and Drewe’s 3 Little Pigs (Carousel Theatre) which won 4 Ovation Awards awards including Outstanding Best Supporting Performance; The Nether (Redcurrant collective/Firehall Arts Centre) which earned 2 Jessie Awards nominations for Outstanding Sound and lighting design; Amélie (West Moon Theatre) which earned 4 Ovation Awards nominations including Outstanding Professional Production. He was the dramaturge and director on the world premieres of How to Believe in Anything by Ariel Slack (Dreamphase Productions) which won the 2022 Cultchivating the Fringe Award; Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! by Davey Calderon, (Vancouver Fringe and Revolver Festival); and Frankenstein: Lost in Darkness by Peter Church (Wireless Wings/Pacific Theatre) which earned a Jessie Award for Outstanding Sound Design.He worked with The Stratford Festival, Arts Club Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, United Players, Carousel Theatre, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Rumble Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Company, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver Opera, Musical Stage Co., and Urban Ink to name a few. His plays have been developed with the following companies: Andre and Xavier bb for the First Time (The Frank Theatre) which had a public presentation at Q2Q Queer Theatre Symposium and Shanghai Black Beer (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre) and conceiving a devised, digital play with the students of Studio 58 entitled I, Myself, Am Strange and Unusual. He founded West Moon Theatre — a company dedicated to small, fierce and innovative staging of musicals and contemporary plays. He is currently the co-artistic director of Ensemble Theatre Company where he started out as part of the acting company in 2018. He is the recipient of the Jean Gascon Award for Direction and the Ray Michal Award for outstanding body of work by an Emerging Director.

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