Natalie Chan

Natalie is an award-winning arts leader from Hong Kong and working in the UK. For her work in theatre, she is a recipient of the Stage One Producers’ Bursary; Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Fund. For her work in Film and TV, she received Film and TV Charity’s Sir Horace Ové Grant and Screenskills Bursary. 

Recent Theatre Producer credits includes: The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker (Kakilang, Omnibus Theatre); The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience (Kakilang, Soho Theatre); This is Not A Show About Hong Kong (UNTAPPED and Fringe First Winner); Bakla (Asian Arts Awards Winner); Blanket Ban (UNTAPPED Winner, Southwark Playhouse) Best of Enemies West End (As Associate Producer); WILD the Musical – City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (As Consultant).

With ambition for a more inclusive arts and culture, she was Innovator and Agent for Change for Artistic Directors of the Future between 2022-2023; where she researched and evidenced hidden barriers faced by Global Majority practitioners stepping into leadership positions, and made cases for change and peer to peer support. She was also awarded the Community Grant from Film and TV Charity to deliver peer to peer support during COVID19. She was a leadership facilitator for PAC Australia at International Society for Performing Arts Congress in Perth 2024, and received the British Council Festival Travel Grant for exchanges with China.

Natalie has held previous leadership roles for Streatham Space Project and Kakilang (Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation producing East and Southeast Asian Artists). Other previous roles include: Producer for In Good Company; General Manager for Creative Youth, where she won the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy’s Giving Tuesday Competition for Digital Innovation. She is also a recipient of the Blackbaud Scholarship for completing her Postgraduate Certificate in Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent.