Director / Performance Maker / Researcher
skyelu2023@gmail.com
Instagram: @skyelu.xiaotian
Skye Xiaotian Lu is a theatre director and performance maker working across directing, dramaturgy, movement, and documentary film. Her practice explores memory, displacement, and historical change through text, image, archival research, and embodied performance.
Education
B.A. Theatre Arts & B.A. European Cultural Studies
Brandeis University, USA
(upcoming) The Cherry Orchard — Director / Researcher
Senior Directing Thesis, Brandeis University, 2026–27
Steeped(品) — Director / Sound Designer
Goethe-Institut Studio 170 Residency, Boston, 2026
Exylium — Co-Creator / Performer
Karneval der Kulturen, Berlin, 2026
Bobby Darin Is Going to Die — Director / Scenic & Sound Designer
Brandeis University, 2026
Die Kantine — Co-Conception / Performer
Berlin, 2025
Three Sisters · Waiting for Godot — Director
Beijing, 2023
The Delayed Trial — Director / Co-Writer / Choreographer
In-N-Out Theatre, Beijing, 2022
Delirium — Assistant Director
Dir. Igor Golyak
Arlekin Players Theatre, Boston & New York, 2026
Our Class — Assistant Director
Dir. Igor Golyak
Arlekin Players Theatre, Boston, 2025
Intractable Woman — Assistant Director / Choreographer / Dramaturg
Dir. Dmitry Troyanovsky
Brandeis University, 2025
The Dybbuk — Assistant Director
Dir. Igor Golyak
Arlekin Players Theatre, Boston, 2024
Wolf Play — Assistant Director
Dir. Sarah Shin
Brandeis University, 2023–24
Yuri Butusov Directing Workshops — Beijing, 2025
La MaMa International Symposium for Directors — Umbria, Italy, 2026
ImPulsTanz, Research Artist — Vienna, Austria 2026
Prague Shakespeare Company, Directing Focus — Prague, Czech Republic, 2026
Bard College Berlin, Theatre Summer Intensive — Berlin, Germany, 2025
National Theater Institute / Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Directing Focus — 2024
METHODOLOGIES / LINEAGESButusov · Stanislavski · Meyerhold · Chekhov · Etude Work
Contemporary Dance · Devising · Dramaturgy · Spatial Composition
European Cultural Studies · Russian Theatre · German Literature · Modernism