YANG Xiyue, is a theater director/screenwriter/actress, currently resides in Shanghai. Her works have been featured at the Nanluoguxiang Theater Festival, Beijing Queer Film Festival, Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, and others.  She selects real materials from life, but makes the things she performs "seem real", using her works to showcase the essence of life as a "lucid dream". She was in residence at PAN Shanghai x Goethe Open Space Flash Residency. Her recent creative research focuses on visually impaired individuals, women, queer individuals, and factory descendants. Yang Xiyue holds a master's degree in Theatre and Film Studies from Shanghai Theatre Academy and an undergraduate degree in German from Chongqing University.