Dominic, Cheung ho-kin , Artistic Director

Dominic Cheung has taken part in drama activities since his secondary schooldays. He started his career in drama by playing Henry in the first production of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Company, Skin of Our Teeth, in 1977. He is also a founding member of Seals Theatre Company. In 1982, he became a professional actor of Chung Ying Theatre Company.

Besides acting, Cheung has translated Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (1981) and Williams' Eccentricities of the Nightingale (2003) for Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Company; adapted and translated Goldonni's A Servant of Two Masters (1983), Pinter's Birthday Party (1984), and Beckett's Happy Days (1987) for Chung Ying Theatre Company; Frisher's The Fire Raiser (1989), Beckett's End Game (1992), Gesner's You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (1991) and co-translated Sherpard's Fool for Love (1992) for Seals Theatre Company; Chekov's Cherry Orchard (1990) for High Noon Production Company Limited; co-translated Wasserstein's Sisters Rosensweig (1994) and Anderson's I've Never Sang for My Father (1995) for Horizonte Drama Club; Miller's Death of a Salesman (1995), adapted Kanin's Rashomon (1996), Woulk's The Caine Mutiny Court-martial (1997), Ibsen's Master Builder (2001), Lawrence and Lee's Inherit The Wind (2004) and Ibsen's Wild Duck (2006) for Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies; Pope John Paul II's The Jeweler's Shop (2006) for Augustine Drama Group; and Durang's Titanic (1999), adapted Laurents' West Side Story (2000), Sorkin's A Few Good Men (2001), Rose's Twelve Angry Men (2003), Howe's Painting Churches (2005) and Grae's Moose Mating (2006) for Theatre Space.

He began directing in 1990. Since then, he has directed original play written by Anthony Chan The Naughty Kids & The Magic Cat (1990), Cooney's Mover over Mrs Markham (1993) and Christie's Towards Zero (1996) for High Noon Production Company Limited; original play Paul Poon's The Secret Success of Raising Children (1990) and Murray's Room Service (1992) for Shatin Theatre Company; Johnny Got His Gun (1995) adapted by Anthony Chan for Prospects Theatre Company; Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution (1996) for the Bliss Drama Club; Kanin's Rashomon (1996) for Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies; original play Sit and Lam”s The Life of Saint Bosco (2004) and Pope John Paul II's The Jeweler's Shop (2006) for Augustine Drama Group as well as Reza's Art (1999), Sorkin's A Few Good Men (2001), Paul Poon's The Swordsman Wong Ng (2001), Simon's They're Playing Our Song (2002), Rose's Twelve Angry Men (2003), Leonard's Da (2004), Howe's Painting Churches (2005) and Grae's Moose Mating (2006) for Theatre Space.

Under his directorship, there were 38 nominations of various categories of the drama award. Out of which, 7 were awarded. Four productions won the Best Ten Productions Award of the Year. Cooney's Mover over Mrs Markham (1993), Johnny Got His Gun (1995), Reza's Art (1999), Paul Poon's The Swordsman Wong Ng (2001) and Rose's Twelve Angry Men (2003) and Leonard's Da earned him 6 nominations of the Best Director Award. Cheung was awarded the Best Director (Comedy/Farce) Award in 1994 and the Best Director (Drama/Tragedy) in 2004 by the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies.

Cheung has not given up acting during these years. He played major role in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), in original plays The Pearl Waist Coat (1991), Fool for Love (1992), Sisters Rosensweig (1994), I've Never Sang for My Father (1995), I Have a Date with Spring (1995), Sound of Music (1996), My Fair Lady (1997), Titanic (1999), ART (1999) and Master Builder (2001) and Annie , the musical (2005) and Ibsen in Blackbox (2006). His performance in Sisters Rosensweig (1993) got him the nomination of Best Actor Award.

Since 1987, Cheung has also started serving as producer for a number of productions for various drama companies including Seals Theatre Company, Shatin Theatre Company, High Noon Production Company Limited, James Mark Theatre Consultant Company, Hong Kong Chorus, Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies, Theatre Space and the special 15th Anniversary musical of the City University of Hong Kong.

Cheung is the Founding Artistic Director of Theatre Space, the Vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies since 1998, Executive Committee Member of the Arts With Disabled Association (since1988), Drama Assessor of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Advisor in drama of Provisional Urban Council (1998-2000), Advisor in drama of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (2000-2002) and the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Company (1998-2001).

JacobHermit, YU chun-kau, Dramaturg

Jacob Yu is an active contributor to performing arts. He works as lighting and set designer, production manager, director & playwright for numerous Hong Kong performing groups.

1981, he joined the Urban Council Performing Companies as Assistant Stage Manager and became Technical Manager of HK Dance Company in 1988. He also worked as guest lighting and set designers for the HK Repertory Theatre and Dance Company. In 1987, he awarded the Scholarship from the Robert Black Trust Fund to further his study in the University of Rochester, New York. 1990, Mr. Yu was invited to be the Production Manager of Chung Ying Theatre Company. From 1992 to 1993, he took a new direction as further study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, specializing in Lighting Design and graduated with Professional Diploma. In 1997, Mr. Yu joined European Scenography Course (ESC), after studying in Utrecht and Prague for a year; he was awarded with Master of Arts (Scenography) with Distinctions by The London Institute in 1998.

Jacob Yu awarded a prize in 1984 - Youth Drama Project Script Writing Competition presented by Joint School Drama Project and Hong Kong Arts Center . In 1993, “ Nuwa Mends the Sky” won “The Best Lighting Design Award” in < 2nd Hong Kong Drama Awards>. 1994, Ten Years Bests Achievements (Backstage) was awarded in 4th HK Drama Awards as well as The Best Set Design Award in the 10 th , 11 th and 13 th Hong Kong Drama Awards with Chow's Family Affairs , The Swordsman – Wong Ng and Twelve Angry Men.  

In past years, he was nominated as the Best Director with the production Laughter on the 23/F , the Best Director & Best Set-design with Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and the Best Set-design with ART and A Few Good Men, both of them won the Bronze Prize in Hong Kong Designer' Association HKDA Design Exhibition 2000 and 2002.

Mr. Yu's keen interest in promoting arts can be reflected in his participation in annual Hong Kong School Drama Festival, of which he is a coach and adjudicator.

Starting from 1984, he was tutor for various organizations including Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Leal Senado de Macau, Macau Academy for Performing Arts, Caritas Institute for Further & Adult Education - Day School, Practice Performing Arts School in Singapore and Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno , Czech Republic . He also works for Leal Senado de Macau DADR as Program Consultant and organized the Macau Fringe since 1999 as well as Hong Kong MonoFest – an arts festival presented by Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Service Department in 2001. He was invited by the Netherlands Theatre Institute to join the 2002 Summer Festivals on the Road.

Mr. YU was also the founder of Hong Kong Association of Theatre Technicians and Scenographers, Committee member of the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies, HK Arts Development Council: Committee member of Drama & Traditional Performance Committee ('95) & Examiner/Assessor of Drama Committee. In 1999, Mr. YU together with his friends formed the Theatre Space.

Bee Wan Tik-lun , Production Manager

Bee Wan graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Art in 1993, major in theatre lighting. Joined the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre as Deputy Stage Manager and alongside he worked with various performing groups on theatrical design and technical work as well. In 1999 he studied in Utrecht , Seville & London in Master of Arts in Scenography by the London Institute and graduated with distinction.

His work Medea was nominated for the best lighting design in 2000 and in Eleven Cats produced by Chung Ying Theatre he received the Best Lighting Design in the Hong Kong Theatre Award 2003. Since his return from Netherlands he joined Theatre Space and trying to diversify the range of his work. He was the technical director of West Side Story (2000) performed outside of Hong Kong Cultural Centre by the shore of the Victoria harbour. And designed the light for the show as well as A Few Good Men (2001) , They Are Playing Our Song (2002), Twelve Angry Men (2003), A Woman Alone (2003), Painting Churches (2005), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2005) and Peter Pan for Faust International (2005); he also designed the set of The Sound of Music for the Hong Kong Chorus Society Ltd (2002), Glass Menageries for James Mak Production (2001) and DA (2004). And designed the costume for the musical They are playing our song (2002) & Sai Fung (2003).

Other than technical and design works, he was also the artistic coordinator of the multi-media performance Maggots (2001) which collaborated with artists from Netherlands, Germany, England, Chili & Brazil ; tutor & coordinator of the Scenography workshop of Artist-in-residence program in Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre (2001) and the Master Class in Scenography (2004); Coordinator of Hong Kong Drama Festival and tutor of Stage Management course of the School of Continuing Studies of Hong Kong Chinese University since 2001; and currently tutor of Scenography for Multi-media Diploma Program of the Hong Kong Art School.

Invited by the Macau Fringe Festival in the same year he brought his light installation performance Not I – a journey of light which first performed in Netherlands in 2000. Directed a school touring performance in Putonghua The Death of Yeung Shau (2003) collaborated with actors from Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and China, altogether 50 performances in Hong Kong and Macau; AM / PM (2003) and Yeh-yeh-yeh-ma (2004). Collaborated with Silo Theater from Amsterdam and worked in the Community Cultural Ambassador Scheme 2004 presented by Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Service Department in Location Theatre and made a series of performances in historical public housing estate in Choi Hung and Shek Kip Mei on the theme of “Women in Modern Society”. Directed and designed the set for ANNIE , a Broadway musical presented by Hong Kong Chorus with orchestra conducted by Mr. Henry Shek in the Grand Theatre of Hong Kong Cultural Centre 2005 summer and Christmas. He directed another Broadway musical Oliver! with 60 children and more in Kwai Tsing Theatre. Apart from Musical, he also directed a love story Talley's Folly in 2006 Christmas.