Qingyu（Liang） Liang
梁清玉

I was raised in Wuhu, a small city on the banks of the Yangtze River in central China. With no live theatre nearby, I built my own: staging shadow-puppet sagas for the neighborhood cats, sketching daydreams in the margins of math books, and re-directing the world whenever reality felt too small. Those improvised fictions became my first way of making sense of truth—an instinct that stayed long before I had words like “devised theatre” or “interactive storytelling.”

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I make interactive experiences that mix play, design, and storytelling. Sometimes they look like small educational games, sometimes like immersive theatre or escape rooms. I love moments when people learn by doing, or laugh before they realize they’re thinking. My goal is to make technology feel human and to make learning feel like an act of empathy.

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I believe in learning through play and connection through participation. My favorite kind of art doesn’t happen on a stage but happens between people: in a child’s quiet laugh, in a small gesture that changes the scene, in the moment a player forgets where the boundary between fiction and life was supposed to be.

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My work drifts across media: physical computing, lighting, narrative design, and performance, but the heart of it is always the same: building worlds that teach through wonder. I’m most alive when I’m building something half-broken, half-beautiful, and inviting others to help me finish it.

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