Director and writer Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng looks back on the isolation they felt growing up mixed race in a small Irish town and the inspiration for their latest show
Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng grew up in Enniskerry in Wicklow
This is the closest Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng has felt to their Hong Kong roots – a side of them that they spent hiding for many years.
Growing up in a small town in Wicklow, the 29-year-old director and writer of the play The Madonna of Asia has found that being mixed race was an isolating experience at times.