REN Ming
REN Ming is a national first-class director, Deputy Dean of Beijing People’s Art Theatre, Vice President of the China Drama Art Research Association, Vice President of the Beijing Theatre Association, a guest professor at the Central Academy of Drama and Deputy Director of the Arts Council of Beijing People’s Art Theatre. He has directed more than 70 dramas including Beijing Grandpa, South Street & North Yard, Family Album, Lotus, Caring Friends, Our JING Ke, I Love Peach Blossom, Sunrise, Desire Under the Elms, Football Club, Relationships, Waiting for Godot, The First Intimate Contact, Wangfujing, Jiazi Garden, The Eternal Flame of Van Gogh, and Returning Home on a Snowy Night. He has won the Wenhua Award for Director, China’s top-class drama award, for three times and Golden Lion Drama Award for Excellent Director twice.
SHEN Liang
SHEN Liang is a young director of the NCPA and a faculty member of the Peking University Academy of Opera. She graduated from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama, and got a double bachelor’s degrees in three majors including Chinese Language and Literature, Art Education and Theatre Director. She is the director of the NCPA opera The Fisherman and the Goldfish, NCPA theatrical concert Reflecting & Resounding, large original opera Xishi (2013 version), Chinese version of opera La Traviata and the opera A Village Teacher (college version).
The other works she has ever directed include operas Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica produced by Opera Hong Kong, Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama Desire Under the Elms, Symphonic poetic drama Revival and original opera Beacon Fire on Green Hills by the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theatre, children’s drama Nezha, and L’Elisir d’amore by Tianjin Opera House. She was also invited by the Chongqing Opera and Dance Drama Theatre to direct Emperor Yu Tames the Flood.
She acted as the chief director of 2012 Beijing Spring Festival Gala, the director of Anniversary of the NCPA in 2010 and 2011, the Chinese director of the opening opera Le Roi in the 2008 China and France Exchange Year, the director of Inspirations from Laozi and Inspirations from the Analects of the NCPA version. Since 2015, she was invited by the Opera Hong Kong to be the Chinese director of operas such as Das Land des Lachelns, Tosca and Romeo et Juliet for three consecutive performance seasons. The other works she directed earlier include operas Le Nozze di Figaro, Tiger Roar, and the Magic Flute, dramas Romances of the Old House, 66, Sisters, Bear and so on. She also directed Samuel Beckett’s short play Come and Go, which was praised as the “best version around the globe” by Trinity College Dublin.
As the revival director, She has participated in the production of western classic operas such as Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca, La Bohème, Die Fledermaus, Aida, Le Nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), Simon Boccanegra and so on. After gaining a lot of experience, she also took part in producing many Chinese original operas including Xishi, A Village Teacher, The Chinese Orphan, The Ballad of Canal, Rickshaw Boy, Sunrise, FANG Zhimin, Tulou, and The Dawns Here Are Quiet.
ZHAO Xiaoyu
He is currently working at NCPA. He graduated from the Department of Stage Design at the Central Academy of Drama with a major in stage design, and later studied at the School of Film &Television Arts at the Communication University of China for a Master’s degree in film and television editing and directing.
Engaged in television art in his early years, ZHAO Xiaoyu ever acted as art director in over 30 films and TV dramas. His award winning works include the film Broiling Sun (1993) which was granted the FIPRESCI Prize at Montréal World Film Festival in Canada, the film Seventeen Years (1998) which won the Award for Best Film from the Association of Film Artists at the 46th Venice International Film Festival and the film Daunggyi (2002) jointly shot by Chinese and French sides, nominated at Cannes Film Festival in France.
Since the establishment of NCPA in 2007, he has served as set designer or visual director for a number of dramas, such as the large-scale live-action drama A Dream in Red Mansions in Jing’an District, Shanghai, the opera A Village Teacher, the dance drama Silk Road, the award-winning work Frog in the Sino-French Drama Year and the large-scale Miao song and dance drama Niangx Eb Sangb accompanied by Chinese orchestral music. He also took charge of stage design for the grand ceremony marking the completion of Heshi Stupa and enshrinement of Buddha’s finger in Famen Temple, Shaanxi Province.
SUN Nanpu
SUN Nanpu works at the NCPA. He graduated from the Communication University of China in 2001, and joined the National Ballet of China as lighting designer in the same year. During his tenure at the National Ballet of China, he participated in the revival and production of ballets including The Red Detachment of Women, Raise the Red Lantern, Carmen, Roméo et Juliette and Eugene Onegin, and the youth version of Kunqu opera Peony Pavilion.
He joined the NCPA in 2020, and has participated in the production of operas Turandot, La Bohème, The Chinese Orphan, Carmen, Tosca, Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Un Ballo in Maschera, Otello, Nabucco, Le Nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore, Cavalleria Rusticana, Aida, Norma, Tannhäuser, Rusalka, The Long March, The Red Guards on Honghu Lake, FANG Zhimin, Falstaff, etc.; dance drama Marco Polo, dramas A Doll’s House, The Merchant of Venice, etc.
WEI Chunyan
As an employee of NCPA, WEI Chunyan graduated from Department of Stage Art of the Central Academy of Drama as a major in style design. She has professional title of national-class intermediate-level stage art designer. She ever served as costume designer of opera L'Elisir d'Amore, drama A Doll’s House, dance drama Sea, Sun, Moon and Stars and concert entitled “Looking for the Most Beautiful Arias - Opera Gala for Children”. She is also costume designer and style designer of dozens of films and TV dramas.
SUN Aina
SUN Aina graduated from Stage Art Major of Central Academy of Drama, and obtained Master of Arts in Specialty of Character Image Design. She is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, Professional Committee of the China Film and Television Technology Association, and serves in the China National Centre for the Performing Arts.
Her main costume design works includes: dance dramas Marco Polo, GUAN Gong, A Peking Opera Dream, Hoh Xil Dairy, Woman in that Fall, TANG Wan; dances KONG Yiji and Driven to Revolt; dramas: A Doll’s House and Unscheduled Love Affairs; operas Tosca, Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, Otello, Nabucco, Love of Tianshan; the musicals Love Life, A Beautiful New World; TV dramas The Wedding March and True Colour.
ZHENG Chen
ZHENG Chen is a senior designer and drama director of the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. His main works include Beijing People's Art Theatre dramas Teahouse, Twinkling Lights, Our Jingke, Corn-bread Assembly Hall, Desire under the Elms, etc., NCPA drama commissions Wangfujing, Returning Home on a Snowy Night, Massage, A Doll’s House, etc., and CHEN Peisi’s first drama A Shill. In his career to date, ZHENG Chen has designed over 60 dramas for large and small theatres.
SHANG Junrui
Working at the NCPA, SHANG Junrui has participated in the producing process of a series of operas such as Turandot, Carmen, La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Un Ballo in Maschera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Samson et Dalila, Norma, Le Nozze di Figaro, Aida, Eugene Onegin, Andrea Chénier, Xi Shi, Visitors on the Snow Mountain, The Ballad of Canal, dramas A Doll's House, Returning Home on a Snowy Night, Peking Opera Red Cliff, music drama The Beautiful Blue Danube - The Story of Johann Strauss' 1872 U.S. Tour, etc.