ABOUT

Working for Social Change and Connection Through Art

Andrea Ling is an interdisciplinary artist — a director, writer, and dramaturg working across theatre, installation and collaborative performance. Her practice creates collaborative, experiential work that brings people together to reflect, challenge, and reimagine social, political, and environmental futures.

Her work has been recognised with the Jerwood Live Work Award and the Genesis Future Directors Award, and she is currently Director Fellow at the National Theatre of Scotland. Andrea works internationally as a theatre director and dramaturg, collaborating with artists and organisations across the UK and beyond.

Background & Artistic Practice

Andrea’s Bolivian and Chinese heritage informs her approach to storytelling and her work with artists and communities from underrepresented backgrounds. Her practice is rooted in collaboration, dialogue, and creating spaces where multiple perspectives can shape the work.

She is the founder of Pacha People, an interdisciplinary company creating community-driven art for social change.

Alongside her artistic practice, Andrea works as a coach, consultant, and educator, supporting artists and organisations through creative development and critical thinking.

Director

Andrea is a UK-based theatre director working in contemporary theatre and new writing, with a practice spanning experimental forms and radical reimaginings of classics. Her practice spans devised and text-based projects, with a focus on work that opens new perspectives and takes audiences to unfamiliar or uncharted places.

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Dramaturg

Andrea works as a dramaturg across script development, R&D, rehearsal processes, and performance. She also works in visual performance and cross-disciplinary arts. Her approach is collaborative, rigorous, and responsive to the needs of each project.

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Support for Artists and Creatives

Andrea supports artists, freelancers, and organisations through creative coaching, consultancy, and dramaturgy — supporting the development of ideas, creative practice, and projects from early conception through to delivery.

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Educator

Andrea has worked as an educator and facilitator from early education to university level. She designed and leads the Playwriting and New Work programme at East 15 Acting School (BA Acting International), and has guest lectured at Central School of Speech and Drama, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the University of Glasgow.

Her teaching spans devising, playwriting, acting, dramaturgy, and directing, with experience supporting neurodiverse, d/Deaf, and disabled learners

Writer

Andrea is a writer whose work has been published and performed internationally.

Her short play Beginnings (Arts & Climate, 2024) featured in a published anthology All Good Things Must Begin and was performed in Canada, Italy, and the UK. Her play Landforms appears in Ten Short Plays on the Climate Crisis (2025).

She has received commissions from Good Chance Theatre (PACHA, 2022), New Earth Theatre (God & Monster, 2020), and the Young Vic Theatre (Endings, 2023), currently in development as a full-length work.

Working Together

Andrea collaborates with artists, organisations, and institutions across directing, dramaturgy, coaching, consultancy, writing, and education.

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