Jiaming Wang , London-based international theatre director, live performance artist and practice-led researcher exploring the intersections between experimental theatre and embodied experience, inviting sensory culture, atmosphere and unconscious.

Gained early recognition as a documentary filmmaker with an investigative journalism background, before his focus shifted to the performing arts, as director, choreographer, scriptwriter, dramaturg, designer of sets and lighting.

He studied performance design with the iconic British theatre director Pete Brooks and choreographic practice-as-research leading figure Athina Vahla at CSM (Central Saint Martins). Trained 4 years theatre directing at the STA(Shanghai Theatre Academy), one of Asia’s leading drama schools.

He co-founded 3M LAB, an interdisciplinary research-creation studio focused on spatial design and movement practice. His production UNTOLD (2020) marked his move into larger-scale repertory work and led to his appointment as resident director with SMG LIVE (Shanghai Media Group Performing Arts & Cultural Group) and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. LANDED (2021) was commissioned as the opening work of the Beijing Fringe Festival and was simultaneously streamed on one of China’s largest social platforms, reaching over 23,000 live viewers. In 2022, he co-initiated the 4th Shanghai Improvisation Festival and directed the opening ceremony, among the first public arts event in Shanghai after six-month lockdown.

Since 2024, HYMNES following a residency in Polverigi, Italy, Jiaming has been developing experimental theatrical productions that hybridise physical theatre, embodied performance, performance art and what he calls “feeling theatre”.

In June 2025, he premiered his new work Great Trauma in London, a work in which a single drop of black liquid dissolving into an ocean of collective memory becomes the lens through which affect is dissected through intense movement, unstable materials， climate spatial composition and optical paradoxes.