Scarlet Chen

Scarlet Chen is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and stand-up comic with a diverse and accomplished portfolio. She has worked as a bilingual filmmaker in China on major films including Kill Bill, The Kite Runner, and The Karate Kid (2010). After serving as a showrunner for Chinese TV series, she sold her Sci-Fi thriller Dream Raider to HBO Asia. Her feature script Fortune Springs won first place in the 2018 UCLAx Feature Screenplay Competition.

Since immigrating to Canada, Scarlet has expanded her career into stand-up comedy, opening for Maria Bamford and performing at LA’s Burbank Comedy Festival and BC’s South Rock Comedy Festival. She has produced comedy shows across British Columbia, promoting women, LGBTQ, and immigrant comics, and organized and hosted the first-ever Asian Heritage Month comedy show in Gabriola’s history.

In addition to her comedy work, Scarlet consulted on the play On The Head, which won Outstanding Original Screenplay at the 2024 Victoria One Act Play Festival. She is also involved in Forum Theatre workshops and was a creator and performer in the play Where Do We Belong, featured at the 2024 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.