Zya Kane is a Chinese Malaysian/Australian artist, theatre maker, director, and inclusive arts practitioner. With over 25 years of experience in performance, devising, teaching, sensory research, and community-based creative practice, she creates immersive and participatory works that invite audiences into shared, embodied experiences.

Currently undertaking a Master of Theatre Directing at the Victorian College of the Arts, Zya’s practice explores the intersections of contemporary performance, ritual, memory, and sensory connection. Her work often draws on scent, sound, movement, and spatial design to create multi-layered environments that evoke intimacy, presence, and worlds held between the seen and the felt.

Zya has previously worked with Weave Movement Theatre, where she facilitated workshops, co-devised performances, directed, and supported the creative leadership of artists. She is the co-artistic director of FUZE, a performance ensemble with YourDNA Creative Arts, collaborating with neurodivergent and disabled artists to devise original work and support creative agency.

Internationally, she has collaborated with Teatro de los Sentidos in Spain on immersive theatre and installation-based works, and served as Assistant Director to Michiko Gaulier (Ecole Philippe Gaulier / ITAP, Paris). She performed in the 2023 MAP Performance Festival in Melaka, Malaysia, and is a current member of the Maroondah Arts Advisory Committee.

Her diverse training spans physical theatre (Lecoq), movement, improvisation, butoh, dance therapy, acting, and sensory performance practices — with a particular interest in olfactory art as a tool for emotional landscapes and embodied storytelling.

Zya’s work is guided by inclusivity, cultural hybridity, and an ongoing inquiry into how performance can act as a space for ancestral presence, collective imagination, and transformative play.