Rachel Chin Mun Yi is Malaysian-born, Singapore-raised, Chicago-forged queer immigrant playwright, screenwriter and actor.
She writes borderless, boundary-challenging work about morally ambiguous characters struggling for control, connection, and redemption in their chaotic worlds.
Rachel’s playwriting journey began as a way to channel her frustration and grief at the deportation of her housemate during the Covid-19 pandemic. She now devotes herself to the craft as a means for healing and activism, seeing theatre as the antidote to apathy. Her work strives to find levity in even the most divisive and challenging themes.
She has developed work with Instrumental Theatre, The Museum of Chinese in America, the Yale Cabaret, the Theatre of Others (Galatea), MoreLife Theatre (Galatea: a Musical Fable), and the Toy Factory (The Thieves). She has also been commissioned by the Singapore International Festival of the Arts x Centre42.
Her Film & TV Writing credits include: Adulting (Mediacorp, Singapore), Defective (Short Film, Dir. Lynne Park), and Sugar (Self-directed).
As an actor, Rachel has performed in theatrical productions with W!ld Rice, the Singapore Theatre Company, DAMA Orchestra, and the Esplanade. Her screenwork includes award-winning lead roles in Chilli Padi, Tuan Yuan Fan, Rookie and Acting 101. She has also guest starred in several TV shows including Tanglin and Avenue 14.
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Rachel is a member of the Goodman Theatre’s Dramatist Exchange and featured on the Playwrights’ Center Venturous List. She is a Rhinebeck Retreat 2026 Finalist and a Henley Rose 2026 Finalist. She was a member of the Playground Chicago 2025-26 Writers Pool and an inaugural resident of the Centre 42’s Playwright’s Professional Development Residency in Singapore.
Rachel is a recipient of the 2015 Veda Mekani Scholarship for Performing Arts and the 10th BOH Cameronian Arts Award for Best Ensemble (Empress Wu). She was also nominated for the 2019 ciNE65 Favourite Actress (Chilli Padi), and received a nomination for the Straits Times Life Theatre Awards Best Ensemble (A $ingapore Carol). She has a BA (First Class Hons) Acting from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Rachel earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University, under mentors Thomas Bradshaw, Tracey Scott Wilson, Zayd Dohrn, Erin Courtney, Eliza Bent, Ariel Stess, Brett Neveu, and Dr. Felicia D Henderson.
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