Jing Xiang

Jing Xiang, born in Berlin in 1993, studied acting at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre from 2013 to 2017. During her studies, she performed as a guest at Volkstheater Rostock and took part in numerous dance and performance workshops. In 2022, she received a danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Since the 2018/2019 season, Jing Xiang has been an ensemble member at Schauspielhaus Bochum. Here, she has worked with directors including Johan Simons, Christopher Rüping, Nora Schlocker, Lies Pauwels, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and Claudia Bossard. Johan Simons’ production of Hamlet, in which Xiang appeared as the Gravedigger, was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen in 2020.

Alongside her theatre work, Xiang regularly appears in film and television productions. Her credits include the Netflix series Biohackers, Tatort, Mord mit Aussicht, Nord bei Nordwest and Eher fliegen hier UFOs. For her role as Raffi in the Prime Video series Beasts Like Us, she was nominated for the 2024 German Acting Award in the category Comedic Role.

Current roles:

• Dr Brodsky in A Clockwork Orange
• Die kleine Hexe in Die kleine Hexe
• Totengräber 1 in Hamlet
• Trauer ist das Ding mit Federn

Past roles:

• Isabelle Linton in Sturmhöhe
• Give up die alten Geister
• Der kleine Prinz
• 100% peruanisch-amazonisches Haar
• Das große Weihnachtsliedersingen
• Genuss suchende Frau / Windelwickelfrau in Früchte der Vernunft
• Abilene, Fisch, Lolly, Hund Lucy, Krähe, Sarah, Alte Puppe in Die wundersame Reise von Edward Tulane
• Underworlds
• Baroque
• Quizoola!
• Doktor Stenersen in Mysterien
• Centurio Marcus Ratcatcher and Behemoth in Passion I und II
• Luisa Strozzi in Lorenzaccio
• Messenger in antigone. ein requiem / Die Politiker
• Headroom
• With in Die Befristeten
• Robinson Crusoe
• Die unglaubliche Geschichte vom kleinen Roboterjungen
• O, Augenblick
• 2069 – Das Ende der Anderen
• Die Philosophie im Boudoir
• Die Abwesenheit des Propheten
• White People’s Problems / The Evil Dead