Joyce Nga Yu Lee 李雅瑜 is an award-winning theatre and live performance director and consultant with 20 year experience creating performances across Asia and Europe. Joyce is known for her inclusive practice and ability to convey complex subjects in accessible ways, often incorporating digital technology and underpinned by interdisciplinary research. She is former Artistic Director of Mind the Gap, UK’s leading learning disability arts company, where she held artistic leadership from 2015-2024 creating acclaimed national and international projects with learning disabled artists.

Joyce works across scales and art forms ranging from small-scale intimate performance to large-scale outdoor spectacle, across sectors with partners in immersive technology, health and social care, further education and higher education and research. Her projects had secured support by Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Rayne Foundation and multiple local authorities, which contributed to 300% increase in the company's turnover. Once described by The Telegraph as “ambitious, original and delightfully weird”, her works were recommended by The Guardian, The Stage and covered by The One Show, BBC Look North, Prospect Magazine, The Conversation and received multiple five-star reviews.

Joyce is an accredited relational dynamics coach and speaker. She coaches, mentors, speaks and facilitates in institutions, conferences, communities and with individuals, including the National Theatre, Without Walls, University of Leeds, The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong, International Society for the Performing Arts Conference, and individual arts professionals including community artists, learning disabled creatives, writers, curators, directors and executives.

She was awarded the Chevening Scholarship in 2008, Clore Fellowship in 2023, Clore/AHRC Research Grant in 2024, and the International Leeds Doctoral Scholarship 2024 – 2029 for her PhD. She is a Steering Committee member of CoSTAR LiveLab and trustee of Tutti Frutti Productions in Leeds.