a performer

Jasmine Chiu 趙明 (she/her) is an actor, dancer, puppeteer, maker and director. Now based in London UK, she was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Richmond, B.C., Canada.

Jasmine’s most recent works have been in theatre, film and TV. She was in the original cast of Royal Shakespeare Company & Improbable’s My Neighbour Totoro for two seasons, toured Asia with the West End production of Life of Pi, and played Little Phoenix in Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise at The Shed in New York City. She’s also worked with UK’s leading physical comedy troupe Spymonkey, and Blind Summit.

On screen she has appeared in Jurassic World 3: Dominion (Universal Pictures), Father Brown (BBC), and Knuckles (Universal).

With an extensive background in dance and movement, Jasmine has also worked with choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, and visual artist Anthea Hamilton in her Tate Britain Commission The Squash, and Primetime at Southbank Centre. She’s toured Europe with multimedia artist Ulf Langheinrich in Vortex, and played Ye Xian (叶限) in Untold (Tangram & Julia Cheng).

Jasmine is also an interdisciplinary maker and director. Her work has been commissioned and presented by Dancin’ Oxford and Pegasus Theatre, developing a solo work AT BROKEN BRIDGE which ran its sold-out performances at Camden People’s Theatre in 2022. Jasmine has been a Choreodrome Artist at The Place and her work has been funded by Arts Council England National Lottery and DYCP Funds.

Jasmine has worked as Assistant Resident Director in My Neighbour Totoro (West End), and as a Movement Director for The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker (Wattle and Daub), and The Hungry Ghost (New Earth Theatre/Bush Theatre).

Jasmine started training at a young age at Richmond Academy of Dance (BC, Canada), before studying at The Boston Conservatory where she graduated summa cum laude in 2014 with a BFA Contemporary Dance. There, she performed principal roles in D-Man in The Waters by Bill T. Jones, Blue Until June Suite by Trey McIntyre, Light Rain by Gerald Arpino; alongside works by José Limón and Karole Armitage. She’s an alumni of Jacob’s Pillow, Springboard Danse Montréal, and Nederlands Dans Theater.

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Jasmine is represented in the U.K. by Narrow Road.