Cheng Nien Yuan is a Singaporean performance scholar and dramaturg. She is presently Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Prior to working at SUTD, she was ITI’s in-house researcher from 2021 to 2022. Her work explores the politics and poetics of storytelling and dramaturgy in the digital age, intercultural theatre, and oral histories in/as performance. Her book, The Storytelling State: Performing Lives in Singapore, was published by the University of Hawai’i Press in 2025. 

Website: cheng-nienyuan.com