YU Rongjun is a national first-class playwright, Vice President of SMG Live, Artistic Director of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Dramatists Association, and an excellent expert named by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He holds a doctor’s degree in arts from the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

His representative works include dramas Last Winter, WWW.COM, The Insane Asylum is Next Door to Heaven, The Salty Taste of Cappuccino, What Lies Beneath, Perfume, Activated Carbon, Dust to Dust, On Capital, Jane Eyre, 1977, The Piano in a Factory, Call for Life, Massage, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Dream of Red Mansions, The Captain, The Crowd, House Guest, The Age of Awakening, To the World, Beyond Words, etc.; musicals Letters Home from the War, and The Twilight of Springtime; musical theatre You Are My Loneliness; large-scale symphonic drama poems Call for Heaven and Call for the Ground; acrobatic play Butterfly Lovers; ballet Jane Eyre, etc. More than a dozen works of his have been staged at international theater festivals on invitation. He has published several collections of works in Chinese, Japanese, English, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Korean, etc.

YU Rongjun has won prizes including the 24^th CAO Yu Script Award in 2021, the Excellent Production Award at the Shanghai New Theatre Festival 2017, The Excellent Production Award in the Musical Theatre MTN Competition by the International Theatre Institute in 2016, the Wenhua Award for Best Production in the 11^th China Art Festival in 2016, the Third LAO She Drama & Literature Award in 2016, the Excellent Production Award at the Shanghai New Theatre Festival 2014, and the 21^st CAO Yu Script Award in 2014.

WANG Xiaoying is Vice Chairman of the China Theatre Association, former Executive Vice President of the National Theatre of China, a doctoral supervisor at the Central Academy of Drama, and a part-time professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

WANG Xiaoying is director of NCPA drama Jane Eyre and NCPA opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet.

WANG Xiaoying has directed dramas including Retrogradation, Warrior Lanling, Fusheng, Richard III, The Crucible, Copenhagen, Jane Eyre, Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty, Red, Departure, Spring Tide, 1977, and Burnt By The Sun; operas including The Dawns Here Are Quiet and Fishing Town; dance drama The Red Dowry; musicals including Broken Bridge and Flower and Trumpeter; Peking Opera All Quiet in Beijing; Kunqu Opera The Story of Black Rock; Yue Opera The Chinese Orphan; Huangmei Opera Half A Moon; Ping Opera Half of the River is Clear while the Other Half is Red; and Shanxi Opera Moon at Dawn over Central Shanxi. He has directed Blindness and Everything in the Garden for Hong Kong and Macau.

His works produced for foreign countries include The Chinese Orphan (Greece), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Australia), ZHUANG Zhou teases his Wife (USA) and opera Il Trovatore (Denmark).

He has published academic monographs including From Hypothesis to Poetic Imagery and Reflections on Dramatics, and won numerous national awards for theatrical arts.

LIU Kedong has served as the stage art designer for the NCPA’s drama Jane Eyre and the NCPA’s opera production The Dawns Here Are Quiet.

He is a national first-class stage art designer of the National Theatre of China, vice president of the Chinese Society for Stage Art, and a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Drama.

Graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1995, his design works have participated in the China Arts Festival and China Drama Festival many times, as well as numerous international arts festivals and drama festivals. In 2013, his works participated in the World Stage Design Exhibition (WSD2013) in the UK. In 2015, he participated in the national exhibition of the Prague PQ International Stage Art Exhibition. In 2017, his works were selected for the Taipei World Stage Art Exhibition. In 2019, he participated in the national exhibition of the Prague PQ International Stage Art Exhibition. His designs have won many national awards, including the Wenhua Award, Stage Art Boutique Project, “Five-One Project” Award, National Art Fund Key Support Plays, and four Wenhua Stage Art Awards for stage design. He has also won other awards such as “Lotus Award” Best Stage Design, Drama Golden Lion Award and Society Award, and Gold Award at the Second China Stage Art Exhibition.

His main works in recent years include dramas NCPA’s Jane Eyre, Beijing Comedy Theater’s Stage, UK Globe Theater Commission Richard III, National Theatre of China All-Star version of Red Rose and White Rose, National Theatre of China’s The Witch of Salem, Stories in the Ming Dynasty, Amnesty, Gulou West Theater’s The Beauty of Linan Mountain, Greek National Theater’s The Orphan of Zhao; operas Denmark Hedland Opera House’s Il Trovatore, Suwu of the Han Dynasty, The Grand Canal, Sandalwood Punishment, Shanghai Opera House’s God of Heaven and Earth, the NCPA’s The Dawns Here Are Quiet; dance dramas Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess, Silk Road, Awakening Lion, Hardworking Meal, Pomegranate Blossom; musical dramas Jinxiu Guoyunlou, Visitors on the Snow Mountain, Battle of Xiangjiang River; modern dance Ask·Xiang, GENESIS Growth; Yue opera The Orphan of Zhao, Yue Opera Lion Roars/ Peony Pavilion, Qin Opera Hometown; movie: We Two.

XING Xin is a first-class lighting designer at the National Theatre of China, and an outstanding expert named by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, enjoying special government allowances. He makes lighting designs for a wide variety of works. In recent years, he has offered stage design services to dramas Jane Eyre, Morts Sans Sepulture, and LIN Zexu, operas Savage Land, and The Legend of Patriot, dance dramas Crested Ibis, and Lion Dance, Yongju opera A Pawn wife, Sichuan opera Ripples on Stagnant Water, Huangmei opera Huizhou Women, flower-drum opera Waiting for Husband in December, Jin opera FU Shan’s Trip to Beijing, Peking operas Rickshaw Boy, You and Me, and The Story of Red Army, Kunqu opera A Dream of Red Mansions, Yue opera Butterfly Lovers, Shanghai opera The Daughter of Dunhuang, Liyuan opera Chaste Woman Singing, Shaanxi operas The Story of Xijing, and The Sound of Flowers, Ping opera Red Sorghum, children’s drama Journey to the West, etc.

XING Xin has won awards including the 9^th-14^th Wenhua Award for Set Design and Lighting Design, the 2004-2010 National Drama Culture Award (Golden Lion Award for Drama), the Set Designer Award at the Fifth National Excellent Children’s Drama Festival, the Excellent Lighting Design Award at the Third China Peking Opera Art Festival, the Set Designer Award at the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Chinese Drama Festival, etc. He has also won many national awards, including the “China Art Festival Award”, “Five-One Project” Award, “Chinese Opera Society Award”, “China Institute of Stage Design Award”, etc.