LI Baoqun is the playwright of the NCPA drama commission The Crossroad.

LI Baoqun is a national first-class playwright. He has created more than 50 theatrical works including full-length dramas Father, Men and Women on Spoil Heap, Life in Heishi Mountain, Foundation for All Generations, Wind and Snow Over That Mountain, Long Night, War Matters to a County (cooperative work), From Xiang River to Zunyi (cooperative work), A Night on Fragrant Hill, Bride of Huai River, The Gutian Congress, etc., dramas for Multi-functional Theatre - Taking a Strange Woman Home, Two Lower-Class Persons’ Night Life, Two Ants’ Basement and Two Ants on the Way, monodramas The Past of the Village and An Amorous Clown, ballet The Moon Over a Fountain, Opera The Eagle (cooperative work), youth drama The Moon Over the Faraway Mountain, children’s dramas The Seventh Petal and Birds Flying to the Sun River, etc. Several works of his have been selected for the “National Project to the Distillation of the Stage Art” and listed among Top Ten Fine Works. He has won numerous national awards including the Wenhua Award by the Ministry of Culture, the “Five-One Project” Award by the Publicity Department of the CPC for Spiritual Civilization Construction, the CAO Yu Drama Literature Award, the Gold Lion Award, and grand awards at the China Theatre Festival and China Art Festival, etc.

WANG Xiaodi is the director of the NCPA’s drama commission LIN Zexu.

WANG Xiaodi is Chairman and General Manager of the Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre. As a national first-class director, she has directed many genres of theatre including drama, children’s drama and local opera.

WANG Xiaodi has won prizes including the Wenhua Award, Wenhua Award for Best New Production, Wenhua Award for Best Director, China Golden Lion Award for Best Drama Director, etc.

Her representative works include dramas To the World, King of Nanyue, Runzhi in Spring Snow, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, The Handan Dream, Under the Roofs of Shanghai, etc., Peking operas Beautiful Life and Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, Guangxi opera LIU Zongyuan, children’s dramas Baby and My Strait of Magellan, etc.

JI Qiao graduated from the Department of Stage Design, Shanghai Theatre Academy. He is a National-level First-class Stage Designer, Vice President of China Institute of Stage Design and Honourary President of Guangdong Stage Art Research Association.

His main theatrical works include Green Balcony, Xiguan Women, Sunshine Zone, Husband, The Thirteen-hong Merchants of Canton, Sound of Nature, Mizhi Women and Suide Men, MAO Zedong and MAO Anying in Spring Snow, SU Wu of the Great Han Dynasty, My Strait of Magellan, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains, The Handan Dream, Journey to Southern Region·Mr. Zhou, etc.

His main evening party works include Closing Ceremony themed with “Oriental Charm” for the 15^th Asian Games Guangzhou, large-scale performance themed with “Beyond Dreams” for the 9^th National Games of the PRC, Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 9^th China Art Festival, large-scale epic performance entitled “Dragon and Phoenix Dance in China”, Opening Ceremony of the 4^th China Peking Opera Art Festival, Opening Ceremony of Celebration Gala for the 100^th Anniversary of the Chinese Shaoxing Opera.

JI Qiao won the 2004-2007 National Drama Culture Award (Golden Lion Award for Drama), the 2011 Modern Drama Contribution Award of Chinese Traditional Opera, Wenhua Stage Design Award, Outstanding Stage Design Award of Ministry of Culture, the Chinese Top-notch Drama Repertoire Award, Award of China Institute of Stage Design, Award of “Five-One Project” launched by Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, Stage Design Award of China Drama Festival, etc.

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.

LI Ruiding works as a costume and hair style designer in the NCPA operas The Ballad of Canal and The Chinese Orphan, drama The Merchant of Venice, and musical drama The Beautiful Blue Danube.

LI Ruiding is a costume & hair style designer, academic leader and postgraduate tutor, at the Department of Stage Design, Central Academy of Drama. After graduating from the Stage Design Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy, he worked as a teacher for three years there. He later studied fashion design at the Department of Spatial Performance Design, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. He was a fashion designer at PARCO, Seibu Group, Japan. Now he is Artistic Director of the Shanghai Ruiding Fashion Design Centre.

Over the past 30 years, LI Ruiding has successively made costume, makeup and hair style designs for nearly 300 stage plays. He has won numerous national awards. In 2008, LI Ruiding worked with Eiko Ishioka, a winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, as chief costume designer for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In 2010, he served as chief costume designer for the Opening Ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo. In 2016, he was awarded the title of “Expert” by the International Stage Art Network (iSTAN), and has been recognized as a distinguished professor at the Central Academy of Drama since 2017. He became a distinguished professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2019. In May 2018, he held LI Ruiding Stage Costume Exhibition under the auspices of the iSTAN and Central Academy of Drama. Meanwhile, a picture album was published in Chinese and English for LI Ruiding Stage Costume Exhibition by the Shanghai Culture Publishing House.

His representative works include the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Opening Ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo, the Welcome Party “Together for Tomorrow” for the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), lyric drama The Handan Dream, children’s dramas Brand and Legend of the Red Scarf, operas Shen Nong and Pioneer, acrobatic dramas The Butterfly Lovers, Swan Lake, Swan and ERA2—Spirit of Shanghai, song and dance shows Oriental Rainbow Clothes and Back To The Silk Road, dance dramas Wind Raging, Silk Road (Edition 16) and To Meet The Grand Canal, Taiwan Ming Hwa Yuan Troupe Gezi operas Madam White Snake and Goddess Matsu, Peking opera MEI Lanfang, Cantonese opera Shadow in Blossom and Moonlight, Yue opera Butterfly Dream, Japanese musicals Song of Saigon, Wanrong and TOKYO METS, ballets Return of the Red Shoes, Bright Red Star, The Nutcracker and Butterfly Lovers, etc.

YU Li is a national second-class composer, holding a degree from the Composition Department of Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Now he is a composer and music designer at the Guangdong Drama Theatre Co., Ltd.

YU Li has composed music for more than 60 productions including dramas The Movable Parts, Firelight Shines on Heaven and Earth, Amnesty, To the World, Brand, Westward Relocation, Legend of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, Macbeth, Sigh at Life, Goodbye Huiyin, Two Belles in Love, Painted Skin, Scrambled Eggs, Kill Time, Every Brilliant Thing, etc.

HU Tianji is the video projection designer of the NCPA opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet and the drama commission LIN Zexu, a co-production of the NCPA and Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre.

After graduating from the Fresco Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, HU went to France for advanced studies at the L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISSA), majoring in film and TV animation. After returning home in 2007, he founded the Zhengyue Image Studio and began to work on CG effect design for interactive video projection.

His representative works include LI Yugang’s poetic song and dance drama Picture of Four Beauties, large-scale operas The Dawns Here Are Quiet, SU Wu of the Han Dynasty, Canal of Destiny, Regret for the Past and Red River Valley, large-scale musicals Jasmine Flower, The Splendid Library and Perhaps Tomorrow Belongs to me, large-scale children’s musical Legends of Beijing, large-scale dance dramas Goddess of the Luo River, WANG Xizhi, Let’s Dance Together and The Twenty-Four Solar Terms as well as its European revival and tour, dramas Peer Gynt, QIU Jin and Man in the Mirror, large-scale acrobatic drama Ghost Romance, and puppet drama Fly, Red-Crowned Crane.

As a Chinese first-class choreographer, he serves as vice chairman of Hubei Dancers Association.He created a number of group dance works, the poetic dance drama Yahuo Yihe, northern Shaanxi yangge opera Women of Mizhi and Men of Suide and the poetic song and dance drama of Tuijia ethnic group Enga – Gathering of Girls, winning Wenhua Award of the National Dance Competition, Wenhua Award for Directors, the award for top ten works of China “Lotus Cup” Dance Competition, top prize of “Stars Award” of China Art Festival, gold award and Award for Directors of the National Ethnic Minority Performance and the Award of Five “One” Project of Hubei Province many times. He acted as a judge of CCTV National Dance Contest time and again.

At the invitation of famous domestic opera directors, he designed body movements and dances for over ten works including the Peking Opera Marquis Yi of the Zeng State, opera Wushan Goddess, Guangdong opera Daughters of the Rich, Pingju opera Mother and Ciju opera The Handan Dream.

He repeatedly acted as the art director of the art ensemble of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and Hubei Culture and Art Troupe, and visited Canada, the United States, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Suriname and other countries and regions.

WANG Hao works at the NCPA. He has served as sound designer in many NCPA operas, dramas and dance dramas. Holding a degree in Audiovisual Art from the Beijing Union University, he has worked on sound reinforcement and tone tuning for performances and sound system design for theatres.

He has served as an independent sound designer in operas including A Village Teacher and La Fille du Régiment, drama The LEI Family, the Royal Architects, song and dance drama My Uranmqi, and opening ceremony of the first National Art Festival for Farmers. He has participated in the productions of Peking Opera Red Cliff and You and Me, dramas Returning Home on a Snowy Night and The Crossroad, and dance drama The Railway to Tibet.

JIN Jifeng is a member of the NCPA with a degree in stage design from the Department of Stage Art, Central Academy of Drama.

JIN has participated in the production of the large-scale dance epic The Road To Rejuvenation, the theatrical performance A Millennium Promise at the “Belt and Road” Summit, the Gathering to Celebrate the Spring Festival of 2018 organised by the State Council, the Tea Party 2019 organised by the CPPCC, a theatrical performance in celebration of the 20^th anniversary of the Return of Macao, and operas Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, Otello, The Ballad of Canal, Samson et Dalila, The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Rusalka, King Lear, Der Rosenkavalier, etc.

JIN has designed stage props for the Tea Party 2020 organised by CPPCC; operas The Long March, Jinsha River, LAN Huahua, Marco Polo, 170 Days in Nanking, Ode to the Lotus Flower, On the Way to Poverty Alleviation; children’s opera Effendi; dramas The Crossroad, True Love Knot, February, The Count of Monte Cristo, Look West to Chang’an, Princess Deling and Empress Dowager Cixi, Bird Man, Mogao Grottoes, Desire Under the Elms, The Merchant of Venice, Listening to Monk Hongyi, etc.