Active in Hong Kong and German Theatre. Playwright, Director, Educator. Acting Principal of HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. Artistic Director of Reframe Theatre. House Author of Germany Nationatheater Mannheim (2021-2022). Former Elected Council Member and the Chairman of the committee of Literary Art of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2019-2022). Graduated from the University of Hong Kong, majoring in English Literature; the Chinese University of Hong Kong, MA in Sociology; Royal Holloway, University of London, MA in Playwriting.

His play in English A Concise History of Future China was selected by the 2016 Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt as one of the five theatre works presented. It is the first ethnic Chinese play ever selected. His play in Cantonese White Blaze of the Morning is awarded Best Play, at the 8th Hong Kong Theatre Libre. Seven of his plays were translated into German and performed. His works were commissioned or invited by the following institutions: Munich Biennale - New Music Festival, Mannheimer Sommer Festival, Munich Residenztheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Stadttheater Giessen, Theater Freiburg, Staatsschauspiel Saarbrücken, Lubeck Theater,  Landestheater Linz, Theatre du Brianconnais, Theatre Antoine Vitez in Aix en Provence, Mousson d'été Festival, Montreal CINARS Biennale Official Programme, Swedish Radio, South Korea Asia Playwright Festival, Taiwan Quanta Arts Foundation, Hong Kong New Vision Festival, International Arts Carnival, Tai Kwun, Fringe Club, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and On & On Theatre Workshop, etc.  

His recent works include A Haunted Online Meeting, Posthuman Condition, The Damned And The Saved, A Poem In Jail, Happily Ever After Nuclear Explosion, Goldfish Of Berlin, After The Flood Floods, Stream Of Consciousness, The Year Of Jin Feng, How To Present Lovelife of Hong Kongers to Aliens, etc.

Suhrkamp Theater Verlag represents the copyright of some of his plays.

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