From curating and artistic practice to music, lighting, sound, stage technology and production, As We Lay Dying’s creative team works across disciplines. Meet fourteen artists, curators and creative and production team members through their individual practices, experience and festival roles.
Yuxing Chen
Curator
Yuxing Chen is a Chinese artist and designer whose practice explores memory, digital archives, perception and the evolving relationship between the virtual and the real.
Working across interactive media, installation, moving image, speculative design and visual communication, Chen creates fictional systems, immersive environments and participatory experiences.
Instagram: @chenyuxing00
Qi Wang
Production Manager and Associate Producer
Qi Wang is a London-based playwright, producer and community arts practitioner. For this Hoxton Hall project, Qi works as Production Manager and Associate Producer, supporting production planning, artist liaison, scheduling and delivery.
Qi’s practice spans new writing, intercultural collaboration, audience engagement and community-based theatre across the UK and China.
Instagram: @mademoiselle_qi
Santi Lowe / Santiago Lowe
Music Director
Santiago Lowe, also credited as Santi Lowe, is a London-based cellist and a member of Lowe Ensemble. Active as both a performer and teacher, he works across classical, early-music and contemporary projects.
He has served as principal cellist of Ars Combinatoria, an early-music group based in Galicia, Spain. With the group, he recorded J. S. Bach’s St John Passion and new works by contemporary composers. He has also been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Arts Scholarship.
Instagram: @santilowe
Heallen Pan
Performing Artist and Space Host
Heallen Pan is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist exploring how reality is shaped by images, narratives, beliefs and embodied experience. Pan is interested in the shifting boundaries between the everyday and the extraordinary, the visible and the invisible, and individual and collective imagination.
Through photography, moving image, installation and participatory practice, Pan examines recurring patterns across cultures in mythology, ritual and spiritual belief.
Instagram: @heallen0
Alex Xiaonan Guo
Curator
Alex Xiaonan Guo is a curator based between London and Beijing. Her research and curatorial practice, Project sitnaltA, begun in 2025, is organised around the notion of “alternative reality”. She treats the present as a critical juncture from which to examine the increasingly complex entanglements between technological development and human society.
Guo earned a master’s degree in Contemporary Art Curating from the Royal College of Art in 2025 and a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Mount Holyoke College in 2022. She has worked at art institutions in Beijing, Boston and London.
Instagram: @archimbaldi666
Yuqing Wang
Lighting Designer
Yuqing Wang graduated from University of the Arts London in 2024 and also trained at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, establishing a foundation for a career in stage lighting. Previous work in stage management brought experience of theatre production processes and backstage practice.
Design credits include The Head at Theatre Deli in 2025 and Blacked-out Blocks at Rosemary Branch Theatre in the same year.
Instagram: @this_is_yuqing
Fraser Scowen
Stage Manager and Technical Manager
Fraser Scowen is a sound artist and instrument maker based in South East London, working across performance, installation and recordings. Scowen’s work often focuses on materials, interfaces and object ontology.
Instagram: @ffraserr
Juice
Curator / Producer
Juice is a sound artist, freelance composer and researcher working across sound, theatre, painting, sculpture, film and performance. Her practice creates immersive sonic worlds exploring the relationship between structure and chaos, alongside time, perception and history.
Her work has been presented at the Science Museum, Barbican Centre, Outernet, Arnolfini, Café OTO, Horniman Museum and IRCAM. Her sonic theatre has been staged across London, and she has received international awards in music, film and game audio. Her practice is supported by the British Council, Sheffield DocFest, State of the [art] and Voidspace.
Instagram: @juice_shuting
Yiqi Kong
Art Director
Yiqi Kong is a London-based costume designer and visual artist exploring storytelling through character, material and silhouette. Drawing inspiration from history, mythology and fantasy, Kong transforms research into visually striking costumes, often examining the relationship between the body, identity and imagined worlds.
Instagram: @1istorytellerkii
Yimeng Zhang
Marketing
Yimeng Zhang is a London-based visual communicator, illustrator and art director. Working across illustration, storytelling and visual arts, their practice draws on observational drawing, mixed media and ethnographic approaches to explore culture, identity, nature and the relationship between individual experience and wider social contexts.
Instagram: @Zoanzzz
Haiyun Zheng
Programming Coordinator
Haiyun Zheng is the festival’s Programming Coordinator and describes themself as a free spirit with a love for all art forms.
Instagram: @helen_alouette
Ben Thorn
Art Director
Ben Thorn is an artist and designer exploring virtual space as an interface for software musical instruments, with a focus on alienation, obscurantism and the politics of aesthetics. Their practice also includes releasing and performing music under the alias [my grey leaving].
Instagram: @ben.thorn
Antian Bi (BAT)
Sound Designer
Antian Bi, also known as BAT, is a London-based freelance sound designer and theatre technician with experience in live-band sound and theatre sound design. She has worked across productions and venues including Park Theatre and Pleasance Theatre Trust.
Her interests include music production, sound technology and creating original music and soundscapes for theatre and performance. Recent work includes A Fable at Riverside Studios in 2026.
Instagram: @b0aa0t
Ziyue Wang
Stage Manager and Technical Manager
Ziyue Wang is a London-based audiovisual artist and VJ working across live music, performance and immersive experiences. Since 2015, she has created live visuals for concerts in collaboration with musicians, bands and performing artists.
She has produced work for UCCA Lab, The Either and SYSTEM, and her own work has been presented at ICA London and Ars Electronica.
Instagram: @prinsssaid