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Education
2021-2022 St John's College, University of Cambridge. MPhil ACE. DISTINCTION
2011-2012 Royal Central School Speech & Drama, University of London. MA Scenography.
1998-2002 Shanghai Theater Academy. BA Stage Design. FIRST CLASS
Honour & Awards
Nov 2022 Be named a Scholar of St John's College and the members of the 'Foundation' of the College, University of Cambridge.
Sep 2022 Diffractive theatre Copenhagen was accepted by Prague Quadrennial 2023.
Apr 2018 Final List International Opera Awards in UK, ‘World Premiere’ Nominee, Opera 170 Days in Nanking.
Nov 2011 Be honored by scholarship Prof, Gavin Henderson (CBE) of Royal Central School Speech & Drama
Nov 2009 The Qingqiang Opera Suo Ling Purse won the First Prize in Stage Design for the newly produced local opera commemorating the 60th anniversary of China.
Jun 2006 Opera Mountain, River, and Cloud won the Golden Prize of the Third China’s Minorities Collected Performance Competition
Nov 2006 Opera the Love for the Great River won the Stage Design Award of the first China’s Minorities Collected Performance Competition
Jun 2002 Outstanding graduate of Shanghai Theatre Academy
Career History
2022- Now Founder and Artist Director of Diffraction Theatre
2013-2021 Artistic Director of Wang Jing Studio
2017-2019 Visiting Lecturer of Architecture Department of China Academy of Art
2002-2011 Stage Designer of Shanghai Opera House
Research Experience
2022 AI-Musement Park, an AI themed amusement park, designed for visitors to transparently experience machine learning algorithms and data processing mechanisms as embodied experiences.(Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare)
2022 Diffractive Copenhagen, New Digital Formats of Theatrical Experience in Mixed Reality.
2021 Diffracting Brecht’s Life of Galileo, a virtual reality presentation confronting liminal pedagogy. It was part of a digital research project at Cambridge University. (Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare).
2021 Ballad of the Pipa, an intra-active VR piece exploring the relationship between the human being and digital scenography.
2021 The End of Time, a VR music installation that aims to recreate and regenerate a historical chamber music work into a new form of VR theatre, displaying the musical works through digital visual spatialisation, sound digitisation and cybernetic space technologies.
Theatre Arts practice as Scenographer
Feb 2023 Opera Turandot, Opera Southwest, USA.
Jun 2020 Musical Pi Pa Xing. Jiu jiang Centre for Performing Arts.
Nov 2019 Dance Dream Seekers. Shen Zhen Opera & Dance Theatre.
July 2019 Opera the Diaries of John Rabe. Berlin State Opera House.
July 2019 Opera the Diaries of John Rabe. Vienna Ronacher Theatre.
May 2019 Musical Poetic Age. Shanghai Hong Qiao Arts Centre.
Jan 2019 Physical Play Lao Can Impression. Southbank London.
Sep 2018 Musical Infinity Love. Hangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre.
Dec 2017 Opera 170 days in Nanking. Jiangsu Centre for Performing Arts.
Nov 2017 Drama Loves of Lotus. Jiu Jiang Performing Arts Centre.
May 2017 Musical Father. Hongkong Centre for Performing Arts.
Apr 2017 Immersive Play the Tenant. National Portrait Gallery. London.
Mar 2017 Drama Misery. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Dec 2016 Drama Hamlet. National Centre for Performing Arts. Beijing.
Dec 2016 Drama A Person’s Warmth. National Centre for Performing Arts. Beijing.
Jun 2016 Drama Sylvia. Shanghai Majesty Theatre.
Mar 2016 Drama Fly into Sky. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Jul 2015 Drama A Simple Life. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Dec 2014 Drama Long Life. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Oct 2014 Drama Pillow Man. Shanghai Ground Theatre.
Oct 2014 Musical Lou Lan. Shanghai conservatory of Music.
Sep 2014 Drama 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. The 1st Toga Asian Theatre Director Festival. Japan.
July 2014 Physical play Normal Love. Sadler’s Wells Theatre. London.
Apr 2014 Drama Perfume. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Mar 2013 Physical Play Sophie’s Sophie. Central Saint Martins Theatre. London.
Nov 2013 Musical Nils in Wonderland. Wuhan Performing Arts Centre.
Sep 2010 Multimedia Performance City. Shanghai Cultural and Education Pavilion.
Jul 2010 Drama Doubt: A Parable. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Jan 2010 Dance Spring Festival Gala Performance organized by overseas Chinese, which toured in Toronto, Vancouver of Canada and in Chicago, State of Minnesota, Denver, Seattle of USA
Oct 2008 Puccini (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi). Beijing International Music Festival.
Nov 2007 Site-specific production A Dream of Red Mansions. Shanghai Hong Kou Stadium.
Sep 2007 Dance Made in China. Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre.
Jun 2007 Musical Hans Christian Andersen. Beijing National Theatre for Children.
Oct 2006 Shostakovich’s opera Nose. Beijing International Music Festival.
Dec 2005 Opera Mountain, River, and Cloud. Lanzhou Performing Arts Centre.
Sep 2004 The Love for the Great River. Lanzhou Performing Arts Centre.
May 2005 Peking Opera Yuan Chonghuan. Beijing National Peking Opera House.
Fringe Theatre
Nov 2018 Physical Opera Skin. Shanghai Theatre Academy.
Aug 2015 Drama Mr Zhang’s Philosophy. Beijing Performing Arts Centre.
Apr 2014 David Greig’s Midsummer. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Oct 2009 A.R.Gurney’s Love Letter. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Oct 2009 Harold Pinter’s Lover. Shanghai Ke Contemporary Arts Centre.
Nov 2008 Ernst Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage. Shanghai Ke Contemporary Arts Centre.
Apr 2006 The Tony-Award Winner play Four Dogs and a Bone. Shanghai Ke Contemporary Arts Centre.
Jun 2004 Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice. Shanghai Grand Theatre.
Mar 2003 Dario Fo ‘s About Face. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
May 2002 Drama White Collar. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.
Aug 2002 Drama Hua Mulan. Tiny Theatre Festival in Japan, Korea International Festival.
Theatre Arts Practice as Assistant Director
Apr 2010 Opera Turandot. Guangzhou Grand Theatre.
Mar 2008 Opera Turandot. National Centre for the Performing Arts. Beijing.
Jun 2007 Musical Hans Christian Andersen. National Theatre for Children. Beijing.
Jan 2006 Peking Opera Zeng Houyi. Hubei Peking Opera House.
May 2004 Peking Opera Mei Lanfang. Beijing National Peking Opera House.
Aug 2004 Opera Wegger. Shanghai Opera House.
Theatre Arts Practice as Another Career
Jul 2008 Assistant director and stage manager of opera Wegger, Othello in Savonlinna Opera Festival and Dahalla Art Festival. 07/2008
Feb 2007 Stage manager of opera Turandot. Zurich Opera House.
Mar 2004 Stage manager of opera Othello. Shanghai Opera House.
Oct 2003 Stage technical manager of opera Romeo and Juliet. Beijing International Music Festival.
Academic Activities
June 2023 AI-Musement Park, an AI themed amusement park.(Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare) Kaleidoscope 2023, University of Cambridge.
June 2022 Presenter of Diffracting Brecht’s Life of Galileo, a virtual reality presentation confronting liminal pedagogy (Lead by Dr. Eleanor Dare). Kaleidoscope 2022, University of Cambridge.
Dec 2006 Invited by the Metropolitan Opera to research on Opera Emperor Qin.
Apr 2008 Invited by the president of the German Goeth Institute to attend the Berliner Festspiele. Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, Bavarian State Theatre, Bavarian State Opera House, Hamburg State Opera House, Komische Opera Berlin.
Installation, Video & Exhibition
Jun 2023 Reimagine Copenhagen 1941. Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023
Jul 2019 Memory. 2019 Beijing Stage Design Invitation Exhibition.
Jun 2012 The Peony Pavilion. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
May 2012 Travelling to the Wonderland. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Dec 2011 Ill Seen Ill Said. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Nov 2011 Pierrot Lunaire. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Complete List of Arts Column’s Papers
2019 This Building Talks Truly. Drama magazine.
2018 Review of Handan Dream. Guangdong Arts magazine.
2018 Since She. Southern People Weekly magazine.
2018 Julius Caesar. Southern People Weekly magazine.
2017 The True Nobility Lies in Being Superior to the Past Self. Opera magazine.
2016 Dialogue with Liu Xinglin by Joslin Mckinney. (Translation) Eyan magazine.
2016 Father. NCPA magazine.
2015 Waiting for Godot. NCPA magazine.
2015 Man, and Superman. NCPA magazine.
2015 Peeping Tom. NCPA magazine.
2015 Bull. NCPA magazine.
2015 1984. NCPA magazine.
2014 When Midsummer meet Perfume. Drama magazine.
2014 Charles III. NCPA magazine.
2014 An Enemy of the People. NCPA magazine.
2014 Cotton in Toga Village. NCPA magazine.
2014 Shakespeare Fall in Love. NCPA magazine.
2014 Ubo Roi. NCPA magazine.
2014 The Poetic Testament of Mary. NCPA magazine.
2013 London Mime Festival. Eyan magazine.
2013 Shard. Picture magazine.
2013 Tim Walker’s Wonderland. Mi Zhang magazine.
2012 War Horse. Eyan magazine.
2012 Miss Julie. Mi Zhang magazine.
2012 The Sun is not for Us. Mi Zhang magazine.
2012 Dr Dee. Mi Zhang magazine.
2012 Search the overside of the Ball. Mi Zhang magazine.
2012 Rock in Roll- Interview with Mark Fisher. Art Zip magazine.
2012 Childlike Innocence-Dialogue with Jiang Weiguo. Art Zip magazine.
2011 When Chinese culture meets Mozart. Opera magazine.
2011 Dialogue with Ming Cho Lee. Opera magazine.
2011 Review of Opera Tosca. Opera magazine.
2010 Guangzhou Ground Theatre Start from Architecture. Opera magazine.
2010 Return to Greek Mythology. Opera magazine.
2010 Infinity Stage. Opera magazine.
2010 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Opera magazine.
2010 Doubt. Mi Zhang magazine.
2009 Liu Xinglin, the Interpreter of Neo-Classicism. Opera magazine.
2009 The Vintage is coming back—review on La Boheme. Opera magazine.
2008 Reviews of 2005 Salzburg festival’s Opera La Traviata. Opera magazine.
2007 Do you want to build a great wall on stage? Too Simple. Opera magazine.
2006 Stage Designer- Gao Guangjian. Opera magazine.
2004 The Fable in Image- the stage design of Opera Wager. Opera magazine.