Sissi Chen 茜蒨 is a New York-based director, producer, arts administrator, and performer. Her work moves across live performance and film, with a focus on gender politics, cross-cultural storytelling, diasporic experience, and emotional lives shaped by society.

Rooted in theatre and increasingly expanding into visual media, Sissi is interested in performance as both an artistic practice and a way people survive, disguise, desire, and transform. Her directing often works through movement, rhythm, intimacy, humor, and emotionally charged physical behavior.

Recent theatre credits include Not Our Home, Not Our Home (2025), Red Threads (Winner of the 2024 Rogue Theatre Festival), Don’t Pitch It, Do It (2024), The President’s Invitation (2024), Covenant (2023), Jonah (2023), I Need That (2023), Doubt (2024), Murder Up in the Air (2023).

Chen also specializes in theater education and community engagement and has collaborated with Roundabout Theatre Company, the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, and Tony Awards China, She co-founded Nomad Theater, a community theatre organization that aims to engage mandarin-English speaking audiences in New York City.