Director Chris White is an associate for the Royal Shakespeare Company and a freelance director specialising in international collaborations and new writing. 

He first worked for the RSC as a research assistant on a production of The Malcontent, before becoming assistant director on The Spanish Golden Age Season, touring four productions to London and Madrid. He subsequently directed Trouble and Wonder in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and has led international residencies and projects for the Education department in America, India, China and the U.K. He recently directed a performance of Henry IV Part One at The Houses of Parliament and The Head that Wears a Crown: a production based on Shakespeare's Henry plays involving over 100 young people from different areas of the U.K. performed on the main stage at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon.  

His first production as a freelance director was The Visit by Freidrich Durrenmatt at the Edinburgh Festival. This production then toured to Teatro Della Contradizzione, Milan, which led to an enduring collaboration with the company. Further productions for TDC included The Suicide by Nicolai Erdman and Le Foreste di Arden, co-created and directed with the company from English Elizabethan texts including Shakespeare and Marston. In 2012 he directed the premiere of Hard Places by Indian playwright Farhad Sorabjee in the UK and then at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai, before the production began a tour of India. The production ran alongside a project to develop short new plays by young writers in the UK and India which were performed as readings and radio dramas in both countries. 2014 he directed the English language premiere of The Truth, by French writer Florian Zeller at La Virgule, and last year he directed a play by English playwright Martin Crimp called Fewer Emergencies at Teatro Litta, Milan, and Teatro Instabile, Naples. 

Chris works at Soho Theatre in London developing new plays with young writers and has directed a number of new plays in the UK including Soho Young Playwrights (Soho Theatre), The Tune is Always Better on the Outside (Mosaic Rooms), The Water When it Burns (Hampstead Theatre), The Sale (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff), Plan D, (Tristan Bates), Cocoa (Theatre503). Other recent productions include 40 Years Young (Young Vic), I Burn, I Pine, I Perish (Belgrade, Coventry) and Scenes from 68 Years at Arcola Theatre, London.

 

TANG Ming is working at the NCPA. He took charge of lighting design in operas A Village Teacher, The Fisherman and the Goldfish and the International Ballet and Choreography Competition held by the NCPA.

He once studied in the Royal Opera House and got the certificate of advanced stage management which was granted jointly by the Royal Opera House and China Ministry of Culture in 2013.

His works include live-action performance The Border Town, Musical Dance Drama Private by the PLA General Political Department Song and Dance Ensemble, dance dramas DU Fu, Shangri-La, Dance Competition of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Chinese Dancing Stars; dramas Life and Songs, CHEN Jiageng and FAN Changjiang.

He also worked for a series of opening ceremonies of important events, such as the APEC China 2014 at the Water Cube. In 2014 and 2015, TANG Ming also worked for traditional opera evening party of Chinese New Year.