Chin Shih-chieh (Chinese: 金士傑; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kim Sū-kia̍t; born 29 December 1951) is a Taiwanese actor, director and playwright.
Chin is known for his work with the Performance Workshop, the Lanling Theatre, and the Godot Theater Company. By 1980, he was known as a director, leading the performances of Ho Chu’s New Match for Lanling.[1] He directed the 2002 production of She is Walking, She is Smiling staged at the National Theatre in Taipei, by the Performance Workshop.[2] He was cast in Art, a Gadot production, the next year alongside Ku Pao-ming and Lee Li-chun.[3] Chin was cast in Irma la Douce in 2007, and performed several times at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall,[4][5] the National Theatre,[6] and the Hsinchu Performing Arts Auditorium.[7] In 2008, Chin starred in Othello alongside Lee.[8] Performances were held throughout Taiwan,[9] marking Godot's twentieth anniversary.[10] As Othello's run stretched into January 2009, Chin remained on the cast.[11][12][13] Chin directed Ho Chu’s New Match a second time in May 2009.[1] In July 2009, Chin shared the National Award for Arts with Wang Da-hong and four others.[14] In 2010, Chin appeared in The 39 Steps for Godot.[15] This was the first production to be licensed in Chinese while still on an original run in New York and London.[16] The next year, Chin took the stage in Tuesdays with Morrie, based on a memoir of the same name.[17][18][19] The performance ran in Taipei and Taichung through March 2012.[20][21][22] In 2013, Chin joined the cast of Stan Lai's A Dream Like A Dream.[23]
Chin film roles include Cho Li's directorial debut, Zoom Hunting (2010),[24] and Lin Fu-ching's first film Jumping Boy (2012).[25] Chin has often worked with director Chung Mong-hong, appearing in The Fourth Portrait (2010),[26] and Soul (2013).[27] Chin narrated the 2015 documentary The Rocking Sky,[28] and portrayed a business tycoon in Love in Vain (2016).[29]
