Eli Ligonnet Lam (b. 1998) is a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist working across film, theatre, contemporary art, and spoken word. They hold a BFA in Theatre and Art Politics from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and are an alumni of the Ernst Busch Academy and the Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute.
Eli works as a writer, performer, theatre director, dramaturg, and screenwriter, creating projects that explore intimate and universal narratives through the boundaries of language, each responding to the space welcoming it.
Their devised piece The Feeling is Mutual (with TFIM collective) won HAU Berlin’s 2020 hackathon and premiered at Schaubude Theatre. Their work has also been presented at HAU3 (Berlin), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, in performances by Nile Koetting), and Villa Médicis (Rome, in films by Madison Bycroft).
In 2024, Eli initiated The End of Innocence, a series of readings and installations shown in Paris, Berlin, and New York, culminating at 3Nǎm Studio in Ho Chi Minh City. The project explored compulsive storytelling and began an ongoing research into silence and noise.
Eli’s short film screenplay Alive at the End of the World, co-written with director Helio Pu, was presented at ECAM Forum 2025 (Madrid). In 2025, their immersive piece Wake Up Call premiered at Love’s Club (New York).
Their first feature script, Anywhere Anytime (co-written with Helio Pu), was supported by Casell’Arte and selected for Les Arcs Film Festival Talent Village and TorinoFilmLab ScriptLab 2026.