Chi-San Howard

Chi-San is a Movement Director, Choreographer and Intimacy Director for Stage and Screen. 

Chi-San's work  specialises in creating and developing comprehensive, nuanced and imaginative movement languages for performance on both stage and screen. She trained in Movement Directing at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama graduating in 2016 and has worked in leading theatres up and down the country. Currently, she is the Movement Director for Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Miserables in the West End, on the UK Tour as well as the upcoming tour of the Netherlands and Belgium.

More recently she has worked on music videos for artists such as Joesef and Orla Gartland.

As a Movement practitioner, Chi-San has facilitated workshops and projects at the Old Vic, National Theatre, RCSSD, MouseTrap and Southwark Playhouse. She teaches at leading drama school across acting degree courses including the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and Arts Educational Schools. She was also the Movement Practitioner for 5 years for DreamArts, an arts therapy charity operating within the borough of Westminster running dance and movement devising sessions for children and young people with limited access to the arts.  She continues to work with them in a freelance capacity.

Chi-San also works as a performance coach offering inclusive techniques towards confidence, body awareness and public presentation for both performers and non-performers. Most recently she worked with the Museum of London's tour guides and as a Guest Facilitator for migrant workers charity Kanlungan UK, leading workshops aimed at building and developing confidence

Upcoming work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare North/Northern Stage), O, Island! (RSC), Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer (RSC), Betty! A Sort of Musical (Royal Exchange Manchester)

Currently Running: The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre)

Previous Credits: Chasing Hares (Young Vic), That Is Not Who I Am/Rapture (Royal Court), Corrina Corrina (Headlong/Liverpool Everyman) The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Chichester Festival Theatre) Anna Karenina (Sheffield Crucible), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre), Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith), Milk and Gall (Theatre 503), Typical Girls (Sheffield Crucible/Clean Break), Glee and Me (Royal Exchange), Just So (Watermill Theatre) Home, I’m Darling (Theatre by the Lake/Bolton Octagon/Stephen Joseph Theatre) Harm (Bush Theatre) Living Newspaper Ed 5 (Royal Court), Sunnymeade Court (Defibrillator Theatre), The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt) The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree Theatre), Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep/National Tour) Variations (Dorfman Theatre/NT Connections) Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse) Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre/Yellow Earth/Tamasha) Describe the Night (Hampstead Theatre) Fairytale Revolution, In Event of Moone Disaster (Theatre503) Cosmic Scallies (Royal Exchange Manchester/Graeae), Moth (Hope Mill Theatre) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Scarlet; The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse) Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre)

Film: Hurt by Paradise (Sulk Youth Films)  Pretending - Orla Gartland Music Video (Spindle) I Wonder Why - Joesef Music Video (Spindle Productions) Birds of Paradise (Pemberton Films)