Playwright Chien Li-Ying is Director of Content at DaMou Entertainment, a film and television production company, and a former adjunct lecturer in the School of Theater Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. As a playwright and director she has staged over thirty theatrical productions. In 2011 she was selected as one of the New Power Players by performing arts magazine PAR. The following year, the same magazine named her Person of the Year in the performing arts category. Her collected theatrical works have been published in three volumes: Springtime Listlessness, Observations of a Transvestite, and Possible Recollections of the Traitor Mamet. She is also the scriptwriter of 2022 Netflix TV series Wave Maker.