Being of East Asian heritage during the Pandemic exposed the ingrained racism, bigatory and hate still felt by many towards people from East and Southeast Asia this is visual monologue of how that felt and still feels

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Director Statement

There was a brief period in my life when I knew without certainty who and what I was. For the first six years of my life I truly believed that I was like everyone else. I was a white Caucasian child growing up in rural England.
What a blow to find out shortly after I’d started school that I was not what I thought I was. I was in fact a transracially adopted Hong Kong Chinese foundling. One of one hundred and six, the first ever UK government sanctioned group of children to be transracially adopted by English families during the late 50s to early 60s.

One could say that from that point it was all down hill. My formative years revolved around trying to get to grips with who and exactly what I was. This is something that is a fundamental part of me; the dichotomy of being one thing and being brought up as something and someone completely different. I actually am of multiple heritages I'm predominantly Han Chinese, but also of Dai minority as well as being Native American and also part Sami. What i write, the narratives that interest me are the lost ones. The stories and histories that have been buried, ignored or just simply erased. I place at the centre of my stories characters that are of British East Asian and Southeast Asian decent. Not characters that are side-kicks to a white protagonist and the white narrative but nuanced, complex characters that look one way but speak another.

I'm bring to life an alternate British narrative and history. Including far more roles for women over the age of 50. Because that's who I am