WU Zuguang was a famous scholar, dramatist and calligrapher and the most legendary cultural figure in contemporary China, praised as the conscience of Chinese intellectuals and the backbone of traditional Chinese culture at home and abroad.

Mr. WU was born into a family devoted to literature for generations. He achieved intellectual precocity at a young age, winning himself a reputation as a child prodigy, and had his name up in the literary world at 18. In the 1930s and onward, he enjoyed a great fame in the theatrical, literary and calligraphic circles. Throughout his life, Mr. WU published a lot of writings, including more than 50 books on theatre, prose, political commentary, calligraphy, etc. His representative works include Returning Home on a Snowy Night, From Place to Place, Flower is a Go-between, The Selected Works of WU Zuguang and others.

REN Ming, a first-class director, was President of the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. He was Vice President of the Chinese Society of Dramatic Arts, Vice President of the Beijing Theatre Association, a guest professor at the Central Academy of Drama and Deputy Director of the Arts Council of the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. He directed 70 dramas, with representative works including Old-Timers in Beijing, Courtyard South of North Street, Family Reunion, Lotus Flower, The Confidant, Our JING Ke, I Love Peach Blossom, Sunrise, Desire Under the Elms, The Club, Relationships, Waiting for Godot, The First Intimate Contact, Wangfujing, Jiazi Garden, The Eternal Flame of Van Gogh, Returning Home on a Snowy Night, etc. REN Ming won the highest Chinese prize for drama - “Wenhua Award for Excellence in Directing” three times and the “Golden Lion Award for Excellence in Directing” twice.

XUE Dianjie, born in Liaoning Province, studied in the Democratic Republic of Germany in his early years. After returning to China, he worked as a set designer at the Central Experimental Modern Drama Theatre and then at China Youth Art Theatre. He also served as Vice President of the Central Experimental Modern Drama Theatre. Now he is a first-class set designer at the National Theatre of China, a member of the Chinese Artists Association and a member of the Chinese Theatre Association. He was the Second and Third President of the China Institute of Stage Design and Chairman of OISTAT China. He is currently Honourary President of the China Institute of Stage Design. XUE Dianjie began to receive special government allowances in 1992, became a guest professor at the Central Academy of Drama in October 2003, won the title of “Outstanding Drama Artist” by the Ministry of Culture in 2007, and published XUE Dianjie’s Stage Designs in 2010.

XUE Dianjie has made stage designs for Taking a Wrong Ship on the Sea of Business, The True Story of Ah Q, Leben des Galilei, Le Temps de Cerises, He’s Jade, The Threepenny Opera, Mort san sépulture, The Field of Life and Death, CHENG Ying Rescues the Orphan, Fate in XIAO He’s Hands, Journey to the West, Our JING Ke, The Yellow Storm, etc. His works have won the Wenhua Award by the Ministry of Culture, the “National Project to the Distillation of the Stage Art” Award, the Set Design Award at the Festival, etc. In 2003, He won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Set Design at the Second National Stage Art Exhibition in 2003.

XING Xin has made lighting designs for the NCPA opera commission A Village Teacher, dramas Jane Eyre, Wangfujing and Returning Home on a Snowy Night, and musical drama The Beautiful Blue Danube—The Story of Johann Strauss' 1872 US Tour.

XING Xin is a first-class lighting designer at the National Theatre of China and an outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture, enjoying special government allowances from the State Council. His works cover a lot of ground.

In recent years, XING Xin has made lighting designs for dramas Jane Eyre and Morts Sans Sepulture, operas Xishi and Red River Alley, dance drama Crested Ibis, Sichuan opera Ripple on Stagnant Water, Huangmei opera Huizhou Women, flower-drum opera Waiting for Husband All Year Round, Shanxi opera The Red Lantern, Peking opera Rickshaw Boy, Kunqu opera A Dream of Red Mansions, Yue opera Butterfly Lovers, Pear Garden Theatre Ode to the Chaste Woman, Shaanxi opera The Story of the Western Capital, children’s drama Journey to the West, musical Jinsha, and acrobatic drama Sculpting in Time. He won the 9^th-14^th Wenhua Award for Stage Art, related works including Huangmei opera Huizhou Women, children’s drama Baby, Yong opera Pawning Wife, Peking opera MEI Lanfang, drama Men and Women on Spoil Heap, Shanxi opera FU Shan Entering the Capital, dance drama Goddess of the Luo River and Shaanxi opera Flower of Hope.

From 2004 to 2010, XING Xin won the National Drama Culture Award (Golden Lion Award for Drama) every year.

Two children’s dramas involving his effort, Sun Bird and Run, Rabbit, Run, have won the Excellent Stage Art Award at the National Arts Exhibition and Festival for Art Theatres and Troupes. XING Xin won the Set Design Award at the Fifth National Festival of Excellent Children’s Dramas, the Excellent Lighting Design Award at the Third China Peking Opera Art Festival, and the Set Design Award at the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth China Theatre Festival. He has won several awards at the China Art Festival and many other national awards including the “Five-One Project” Award, Chinese Opera Society Award, China Institute of Stage Design Award, etc.

CONG Lin is an actor at the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. He has appeared in more than 60 dramas including Thunderstorm, Teahouse, Rickshaw Boy, Top Restaurant, Mutiny, Lotus Flower, The Confidant and Sunrise. He upholds realism when working as a director.

YAN Ni is a costume designer at the Beijing People’s Art Theatre. Over the years, she has made costume designs for a number of dramas, films and TV plays.

Her representative works include dramas RUAN Lingyu, Butterfly Dream, The Chosen One, The Antiques, Waiting for Godot, I Love Peach Blossom, Desire Under the Elms, Rickshaw Boy, Dragon Beard Ditch, The Confidant, Sunrise, etc., TV plays HAN Xin, The Family Legend, Thick Red Mansions, MOU’s Manor, Indanthren, Eight Thousand Hunan Girls Goes up Mt. Tianshan, etc. She won the “Golden Chrysanthemum” Award for Set Design by the Beijing Municipal Government.

XU Li is a makeup designer at the Beijing People’s Art Theatre.

Her representative works include The Antiques, Waiting for Godot, The Revenge of Begonia, Uncle Doggie’s Nirvana, The Ghost Captor and the Ghost of a Self-Hanged Woman, Courtyard South of North Street, Peking Man, Family Reunion, The Wotou Quadrangle Courtyard, Dinner, Relationships, etc.

ZHENG Chen is Head of the Sound Effects Team of the Beijing People’s Art Theatre.

ZHENG Chen has made sound designs for more than 20 dramas including The First Intimate Contact, Teahouse, A Poison, A Contractual Marriage, Confessions of a Man, The Wotou Quadrangle Courtyard, Desire Under the Elms, Hamlet, The Confidant, Search for Spring Willow Society, Manipulation, etc. Among these, Confessions of a Man won the Excellent Award for Set Design at the Eighth China Theatre Festival.

SHANG Junrui is a staff member of the NCPA, holding an academic degree from the Choreography Department of Beijing Dance Academy.

SHANG Junrui has worked on operas Turandot, Carmen, La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Un Ballo in Maschera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le Nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onegin, Norma, Aida, Andrea Chénier, Samson et Dalila, etc., Chinese operas Xishi, The Ballad of Canal and Visitors on the Snow Mountain, dramas Returning Home on a Snowy Night and A Doll’s House, Peking opera Red Cliff, and musical drama The Beautiful Blue Danube—The Story of Johann Strauss' 1872 US Tour. He has served as a production coordinator for the opera Xishi, drama Jane Eyre and dance drama Marco Polo.