Xinyi Cao: From PCI to Punchdrunk

Xinyi Cao graduated from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries in 2016 and is currently Senior Production Manager for Punchdrunk’s Shanghai production of 'Sleep No More', the multi award winning ‘immersive’ theatrical experience. Xinyi is a former MA Culture, Creativity & Entrepreneurship student at PCI and was a member of the stage@leeds company.

Xinyi is joined by stage@leeds artistic director Steve Ansell and Dr Scott Palmer, Associate Professor in Performance Design to discuss Xinyi's professional journey from PCI student to senior production manager at Punchdrunk.

Sleep No More 不眠之夜

Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More originated in London in 2003. It tells Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth through a darkly cinematic lens, offering an audience experience unlike anything else. Audiences move freely through the epic story, creating their own journeys through a film noir world. Sleep No More ran in a new version in Boston, USA in 2009-10 and has been performed in New York since 2011. The Shanghai version (co-produced by SMG Live) re-imagines the original production but sets it in Shanghai of the 1930s and introduces “new surprises hidden across five storeys of this newly built building in the Jing’An District.”