YANG Ting is a theatre director with talent for both acting and directing. She is the chief planner of “Granary of Theatre Dreams”, part of the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, and the art planner of the Aranya Theater Festival.

More than 20 years of stage experience has laid YANG Ting a solid foundation, winning her high praise for her acting and directing skills. Her many years of stage experience has also given birth to her unique aesthetics of the absurd. With distinct creativity, great acting talent and a solid theoretical foundation in theatre aesthetics, she is different from the rest in the theatrical circles. Her works are unique and varied in style, novel but not weird. She is good at dealing with the cruelty and seriousness of the real world in an absurd and witty way.

As an actress, her representative works include Rhinoceros In Love, Don Quixote, Bedbug, Total Women and others.

As a director, her representative works include Parasite, Princess Fishbone, What the Butler Saw, Robot, Le Malentendu, Les Juenes Mariées, Jack The Ripper, Anna and I, STILL BARKING, Loot, L’Étranger, W, MAMA, Meeting Camus, etc.

XIAO Shiyao holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre, Film, and Television Literature from the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Her representative works include drama Tide (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center), suspense stage drama The Abyss (One Drama Awards 2021), stage drama The Long Night, stage drama Parasite, stage drama I Don’t Want to be Friends with You, musical Day and Night, etc.

Her representative TV works include Hello Joann, Hi Joann, Crazy Troupe, Who Says I Will Fail to Get Married, Men in Love, etc.

Her representative Internet dramas include Dr. Qin, VISIBLE LIE X, etc.

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 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.

WANG Qi is a Chinese lighting and visual artist devoted to theatrical performances with an academic degree in lighting design from the Department of Stage Art, Central Academy of Drama. He is also an expert member of the Professional Committee of Lighting, China Institute of Stage Design. Many works of his have won awards including the Wenhua Award at the Arts Festival by the Ministry of Culture, the title of National Project to the Distillation of the Stage Art, and the “Five-One” Project Award by Publicity Department of the CPC. Many of his contemporary art works have been exhibited at the Le Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, the ICA, UK, and the Guggenheim Museum, USA. He served as chief lighting designer of the Pavilion of City Being at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai.

 

His representative works including dramas Rhinoceros In Love, Maple Woods, Xuanhe Painting Academy, Don Quixote, Dim Light, Two Dogs’ Opinions On Life, Looking For LI Dazhao, JIAO Yulu, etc.; operas Rickshaw Boy, Sandalwood Death, A Story about Growing up, Bloody Xiangjiang River, and On the Way to Poverty Alleviation; dance dramas Monk Faxian, and The Silk Road; Peking Opera Above the Clouds; Yuediao Opera Lao Tzu, etc.; musicals Not the Same as Fireworks and Enemy Little Witch; children’s plays Fly! Crane, You Are Umasou, etc.

Akuan is a teacher of costume design at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, a member of the China Fashion Association, a member of the China Institute of Stage Design, and an artist who has cooperated with the Theatre SanTuoQi since 2020.

His representative theatrical works include Parasite, Memories of Matsuko, 15 Days in Two Capitals (Version 2022), Faust, ZHENG He, Princess Xinyi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Sisters Waiting For Godot, Peking Man, The Lobbyist, Ivanov, Teahouse, The Classic of Mountains and Rivers, etc.

His representative dramas include Beautiful Zhuang Brocade, Dancing With Heart, Auspicious Clouds of Heaven and Earth, Wind of Colourful Guizhou, Rain at Midnight·Wish, A Happy Excursion, Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water, Night of Beijing, Women of the World, Dragon Dancing in the Capital, Phoenix Dancing in the Ninth Heaven, Customs of Qi State: Futian, Cang and Chan: A Beautiful Story About Nuo, Fenmo, Flowers Fall in Dream, Eight Belles of Qinhuai, Night Banquet, MEI Lanfang, Into The Woods, The Silk Road, In the Depths of Memory, Swordsmen’s World, The Railway to Tibet, Butterfly Lovers, Menogg as Garden, etc.

LUKA is a promising composer, electronic musician and music producer who lived and worked in France.

After graduating from the Composition Department of Xi’an Conservatory of Music in 2009, LUKA went to France for further studies. There he learned composition with Michel Merlet and orchestration with Anthony Girard. Meanwhile, he deeply studied electronic music technology at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). After returning to China from France in 2015, he worked with acomposer XIAO Ying and musician LONG Fei in founding the AEM (Art et Métier) Studio. He began to work on theatrical music in 2017.

His representative works include Rhinoceros in Love, L’Étranger, STILL BARKING, Angle Flying, Le Malentendu, Meeting Camus, Robot, Miss MIAO, etc.