Christopher Lam 林子榮 is a Chinese-Canadian director/actor/playwright who is based on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver.
Chris’ work includes the West Coast Canadian premieres of Stiles’ and Drewe’s 3 Little Pigs (Carousel Theatre) which won 4 Ovation Awards awards including Outstanding Best Supporting Performance; The Nether (Redcurrent collective/Firehall Arts Centre) which earned 2 Jessie nominations for Outstanding Sound and lighting design; Amélie (West Moon Theatre) which earned 4 Ovation Awards nominations including Outstanding Professional Production. He was also the dramaturge and director on the world premieres of How to Believe in Anything by Ariel Slack (Dreamphase Productions) which won the 2022 Cultchivating the Fringe Award; Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! by Davey Calderon, (Vancouver Fringe and Revolver Festival); and Frankenstein: Lost in Darkness by Peter Church (Wireless Wings/Pacific Theatre) which earned a Jessie for Outstanding Sound Design.
He has worked with The Stratford Festival, Arts Club Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, United Players, Carousel Theatre, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Rumble Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Company, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver Opera, Musical Stage Co., and Urban Ink to name a few.
His plays have been workshopped with the following companies: Andre and Xavier bb for the First Time (The Frank Theatre) which had a public presentation at Q2Q Queer Theatre Symposium and Shanghai Black Beer (VACT) and conceiving a devised, digital play with the students of Studio 58 entitled I, Myself, Am Strange and Unusual.
He founded West Moon Theatre — a company dedicated to small, fierce and innovative staging of musicals and contemporary plays in Vancouver. He is currently the co-artistic director of Ensemble Theatre Company, which he become involved as an acting company member in 2018. He is the recipient of the Jean Gascon Award for Direction and the Ray Michal Award for outstanding body of work by an Emerging Director. He received both the Ovation Award and CTC for best direction of a musical.
He was one of the inaugural cohort members of the Bachelor of Performing Arts Program from Capilano University and currently pursing his MFA in Directing at UBC.
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