A national first-grade director, with a PhD degree of drama in stage direction, vice president of National Theatre Company of China and vice president of Chinese Dramatist Association, one of the first of 'the Talents of the Four Ones Project'; awarded the State Council special allowance. He gained the titles of 'Excellent Drama Workers' and 'Outstanding Directors of the New Century' awarded by the Ministry of Culture of P. R. C, and won many kinds of prizes such as 'the National Culture Projects' for excellent director, 'Gold Lion Award' for excellent director, 'Cao Yu Prize' for excellent director and excellent critic, prize for excellent director in Chinese Opera Festival, prize for China Small Theatre Opera Festival, Chinese Literary Criticism Award and Five One Project Prize.

As a national first-class screenwriter, Mr. Yu serves as Deputy General Manager and Art Director of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Director of Shanghai International Contemporary Drama Festival. From 2000 to 2012, more than 40 drama works were performed by dozens of domestic and foreign theatres and won a number of outstanding professional awards in screenplay at home and abroad, including the Chinese Drama Golden Lion Award for Screenplay, Outstanding Screenplay of National Drama Exhibition. In 2004 and 2007, he twice won the grants from the Asian Cultural Council Awards, sponsored to go to the US for theatrical cultural exchange and research. In 2008 he was granted the scholarship by the British Royal Theater to participate in its international in-field screenwriter learning. As a visiting scholar he visited Duke University in the United States in 2011.

His major drama works include: Last Winter, WWW.COM, Next Door to Paradise Is a Lunatic Asylum, Salty Cappuccino, Behind the Lies, Perfume, Midnight in Havana, Like a Dog, Active Carbon, Winter of Two Cities, Drift, Appeal to Heaven, Tremor, Bliss in Mind, Capital Theory, Embarrassed and The Boss. His translation works: The Vagina Monologues and adapted works: Love Like a Fallen City, A Dream of Red Mansions, music drama Street Angel, translated and adapted drama Jane Eyre, Lolita, 1977, Steel Piano, Massage, musical I Love You and the musical drama John Strauss 1872, ballet Jane Eyre. His traditional drama works include: Red House Mirror (Yueju opera), Sighing (Sichuan opera). TV series musical Hand-in-Hand in Life and radio musical Chasing Fugitive for 1000 Miles Among them, Last Winter, WWW.COM, Love Like a Fallen City, Next Door to Paradise Is a Lunatic Asylum, Salty Cappuccino, Behind the Lies, Appeal to Heaven, Tremor, Perfume and Capital Theory have been translated into English, Japanese, Turkish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Bosnian, Hebrew and other languages abroad and played by more than a dozen troupes. More than 10 works were invited to participate in international drama festivals. Over twenty works were published, including: Selected Works of Nick Yu - Next Door to Paradise Is a Lunatic Asylum, Nick Yu's Plays (Turkish), Capital Theory - Nick Yu's Selected Drama Works (I) and Bliss in Mind - Nick Yu's Selected Drama Works (II).

Liu Kedong once served as the set designer of the NCPA opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet. 

As a first-class set designer of National Theatre of China and a director of China Institute of Stage Design, Liu Kedong graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1995 and participated in the PQ, an exhibition of performance design and theatre architecture in Prague, and a number of other art festivals of many countries with his stage works. He has won the awards of China Art Festival, China Theatre Festival, National Excellent Stage Art Works Project and Five “One” Project and so on. He has repeatedly won the Wenhua Stage Design Award, the “Lotus Cup” Best Stage Design Award, the Golden Lion Award for Drama and the Institute Award, etc. 

His main works in recent years include: such dramas as Jane Eyre, Legend of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Richard III, The Crucible, Red Rose and White Rose, Brightness, The Wilderness and People and Blind City; such operas as Red River Valley and Fishing Town; dance dramas like Luo Shen in the Mooon Water , Let’s Dance and Portrait of Four Beauties; musical Qing Cheng; modern dance Ask · Fragrance; Yue opera The Chinese Orphan; and the film The Two of Us. 

Xing Xin served as the lighting designer in a number of NCPA productions including operas like Xi Shi and A Village Teacher , dramas like Wangfujing and Returning Home on a Snowy Night, and the musical drama Beautiful Blue Danube - Johann Strauss´ US Tour in 1872. 

Xing Xin is a first-class lighting designer of the National Theatre of China and an outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture, enjoying the special government allowances of the State Council. His works cover an extensive range. Xing’s main works in recent years include: such dramas as Jane Eyre, Wangfujing, Returning Home on a Snowy Night and The Grand Mansion Gate; such operas as Xi Shi, A Village Teacher and Red River Valley; dance dramas like The Red Dowry and Luo Shen in the Moon Water; the Sichuan opera Stagnant Water with Ripples; the Huangmei opera Huizhou Women; the Huaguxi Drama Waiting for Him in December; the Jin opera The Red Lantern; the Peking operas Mei Lanfang and the Rickshaw Boy; the Kunqu opera A Dream in Red Mansions; the Yue opera Butterfly Lovers; the Liyuan opera Reply of a Chaste Wife; the Shaanxi opera Xijing Story; the children’s drama Journey to the West; the musical Golden Sand; and the acrobatic show Sculpting in Time. Xing has won the 9th through the 13th Wenhua Award for Stagecraft. He won the 2004-2007 and 2007-2010 National Drama Culture Award (Golden Lion Award for Drama) in a row for the Huangmei opera Huizhou Women, the children’s drama My Baby, the Ningbo opera The Pawned Wife, Peking opera Mei Lanfang, the stage play Ganzi Mountain and the Jin opera Fu Shan Goes to Beijing. Thanks to his children’s drama Sun Bird and Rabbit, Run, Xing won the Outstanding Stage Design Award at the Collective Show of Excellent Plays from National Art Theatres and Troupes, the Stage Design Award of the 5th National Collective Show of Excellent Children’s Drama, the Outstanding Lighting Design Award of the 3rd Peking Opera Art Festival, and the Stage Design Award of the 6th, 7th and 8th China Drama Festival. The opera The Wild Plain, the Sichuan operas Face Changing and Yi Dan Da, the stage play Father, the Lü opera of Shandong province Mending the Heaven and the children’s drama My Baby have been included in the list of the National Excellent Stage Art Works Project. Xing Xin has also been given quite many national awards, including the “Award of China Art Festival”, Award of Five “One” Project, “Award of Chinese Opera Society” and “Award of China Institute of Stage Design”.