Yulan Jack 杰克玉兰 is an award-winning Singaporean-Chinese and Australian actor, singer, and interdisicplinary artist, formerly known as Stephanie Jack. In 2022, she was named by Asialink (University of Melbourne) as one of 40-Under-40 Most Influential Asian Australians.

 

Yulan ("yoo-lahn") is an homage to her late grandmother Mulan ("wood orchid") and her mother Mei Yu ("beautiful jade"). The yulan flower is an ancient white magnolia native to China, and the official city flower of Shanghai where Yulan studied Mandarin in 2019. 

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Yulan graduated top of her B.A Drama cohort at the University of Bristol, and completed an M.F.A in Acting at Harvard's ART/MXAT Institute, including a semester abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre School. 

 

Her acting credits include playing the acerbic journo Megan Lang in Deadloch (Amazon Prime Video); the lead role in Michelle Law's tri-lingual play Miss Peony (Belvoir St/National Tour); and Madame in Archipelago Productions' The Maids with Essie Davis and Marta Dusseldorp. 

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As an interdisciplinary artist, Yulan’s work offers playful and poetic insights into personal acts of cultural reclamation. In 2019, she studied Mandarin and kung fu in Shanghai and documented her journey in a YouTube series called Mixed Up. She also received funding to write a play inspired by her time in China, Mixed Feelings. Her Plimsoll Gallery video installation, 混 hùn (2022) explored cultural hybridity and multiracial code-switching.

 

She has won multiple awards for her writing including the Margaret Scott Young Writers Fellowship at the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards and Best New Writing at the Tasmanian Theatre Awards for co-writing A Mouthful of C Words.

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Yulan is currently working on the debut EP release for Yulan & Blaise, a genre-bending experimental pop project with her partner Blaise Garza (Violent Femmes).