LIU Tianchi is a teacher and associate professor at the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama, holding a doctor’s degree in theatre and traditional Chinese opera from the Central Academy of Drama.

 

LIU Tianchi graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1995. Then she went to Japan for further studies. After returning to China, she joined the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1998 and has been a teacher of acting since then. She founded the “LIU Tianchi Performance Workshop” in 2016, published The Art of Acting in 2022 and won the “Outstanding Actress Award” on the First “China TV Actor Image Ranking·Actor Public Image Golden List” in 2014. Her representative works include film and TV works To Live, The Phantom Lover, Romance of Our Parents‌ and The VI Group of Fatal Case, and stage dramas Che Guevara, The Yellow Storm and Stirred from a Dream. As a director, her representative works include musicals Jinsha and Two Times Lotte, and dramas The Yellow Storm and Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns.

GUAN Shan holds a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Dramatic Literature, Central Academy of Drama. As a playwright, his representative works include musicals Butterflies, Jinsha, The Winter of Three Hairs, The Piano in a Factory, Long March, NIE Xiaoqian and NING Caichen, Destroying Opium at Humen, Flying Apsaras and Mountain-Seaing, dance dramas The Legend of Inner Mongolia and Seven Feet, and TV dramas Rush Year, Migrant Workers’ Struggle for Life, I Am Not a Hero, Nine Years and Forty-Nine Days Memorial.

HAN Jiang is a set and lighting designer at the National Theatre of China, holding a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Stage Design, Central Academy of Drama. He designs for many forms of art, such as dance, drama, traditional Chinese opera, opera and musical. In 2007, he co-founded the Beijing Dance Theater with WANG Yuanyuan, a well-known choreographer. Since its founding, the Theatre has successively staged a dozen dancing works, including Stirred from a Dream, Prism, Haze and The Plum in the Golden Vase, which have toured top theatres and festivals in over 30 countries and more than 60 cities across Europe, and the Americas. His representative works include dance dramas Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, Giselle and ZHU Ziqing, dramas White Deer Plain, The Master Builder and To Live or To Die, operas Carmen, The Banquet and Wolf Cub Village, and traditional Chinese operas Two Belles in Love, Red and The Three Women Ghosts‌.

CHENG Chi is a renowned composer, holding a bachelor’s degree from the Central Conservatory of Music. In 1994, he joined the Rock Records - Magic Stone Trio for its national tour. His compositions are diverse in style, and he is so skilled at blending Chinese musical elements with modern musical techniques that his music boasts profound cultural heritage and unique artistic charm. His representative works include music for Impression LIU Sanjie, music for Return to Pingyao, music for Return to Dunhuang, theme song and scene music for Unique Henan·Land of Dramas, theme song and scene music for Unique Dream of Red Mansions·Land of Dramas, Zhiyin (Composition Director), The Red Detachment of Women (Chief Managing Producer/Music Director), a large-scale art performance held in Sanya, Hainan, and Northern Expedition Memorial (Managing Producer/Music Director), a fantasy Three Kingdoms-themed programme staged in the form of panoramic theatre in Hanzhong, Shaanxi.

QIN Ziqian worked as an actor and rehearsal director at the Beijing Dance Theater. He has participated in the production of Early Spring, A Leaf in the Storm, Moorland Elegies‌, White Snake-Revelations, physical theatre The Cherry Orchard, and ballet Manolita Chen. His solo works include ballets Smoke of Gunpowder and Beijing Sonata.