elisabeth gunawan

PERFORMER / DEVISER

Projects: If You Fall

Elisabeth Gunawan is a critically-acclaimed and multi award-winning Chinese Indonesian theatremaker and actor. With Created a Monster, she wrote and performed Unforgettable Girl, which won the OFFFest award at VOILA! Festival, Best Performer in a Play in The Stage Debut Awards 2022 and is a finalist for the LET Award 2023.

Leading the artistic collective Saksi Bisou, she is also currently developing Promised Land (Electric Dreams Online 2020/Bloomsbury Festival 2022). As an actor-maker, she is working with Ad Infinitum on their new piece ‘If You Fall’ (Bristol Old Vic/Manchester HOME), and with Flabbergast Theatre co-devising and performing Macbeth (Edinburgh Assembly Festival 2022, Southwark Playhouse 2023). 

In 2021, she was a recipient of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice fund to begin her ‘Myths, Stories and Worlds’ research (née ‘Mythical Storytelling’), which continues to be the backbone of her practice today. For the period of 2021-2022, she was a resident artist at the Grotowski Institute, where she continued this exploration.