REFRAME THEATRE
Our core members create a collaboration lab which works with the artists and intellectuals in different programmes.
photo by Max Zerrahn
Pat To YAN
Artistic Director
Active in Hong Kong and German Theatre. Playwright, Director, Educator. The Artistic Director of Reframe Theatre, the House Author of Germany Nationatheater Mannheim (2021-2022). Elected Council Member and the Chairman of the committee of Literary Art of Hong Kong Arts Development Council. 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 A Concise History of future China (Part 1 of Posthuman Journey) is selected by 2016 Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt as one of the five theatre works presented. It is the first ethnic Chinese play ever selected and premiered in Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival 2016. The German Premiere was produced by The Staatsschauspiel Saarbrücken in 2021. The staged reading (full or abridged version) of this play was already performed in Berlin, London, Munich, New York, Taipei & Mannheim. Posthuman Condition (Part 2 of Posthuman Journey) was produced by Schauspiel Frankfurt in2021. His play in Cantonese White Blaze of the morning is awarded Best Play, the 8th Hong Kong Theatre Libre. Happily ever after nuclear explosion is commissioned by Munich Residenztheater and premiered in June 2018 when he was invited as Artist-in-residence. This play is under the programme of World/Stage. He directed a Cantonese version which was invited by Tai Kwun Theatre Season (HK), Asia Playwright Festival (South Korea) in 2019 and CINARS Biennale Official Programme (Canada) in 2021.
Felix CHAN
Producer
Felix focuses on the cultural hybridity, technological theatre, dance and independent film performances. He is an experienced curator and producer who have worked with the theatre and film companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and London in the previous ten years. Felix also studied the Master Degree in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship - Theatre & Performance Pathway, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom in 2018-19.
His recent immersive theatre curations (selected): One Person, Brewing Wine, Encounter with the God of Wine in the Mountains (2024), Post Office in Hell (2024), Goddess (2024), A Haunted VR Conference (2023), A Metaverse Odyssey (all audiences wearing VR, 2023), Poem in a Jail (2021), and Stream of Consciousness (2018), which are the immersive theatre:; Together, a digital immersive theatre by Factory Irregular (Prague Quadrennial 2019); Milonga online by the sea (2021), The Future Project (2021) and so on. Since 2021, he has also created a platform ‘The Institute of Imagination’ which has supported the innovation performances by Hong Kong artists (2022, 2024).
Besides, he got the Award for Young Artist (Critic), Hong Kong Art Development Awards 2015 by Hong Kong Development Council. He is the one of the judges of The Hong Kong Theatre Libre award since 2013 and he also was invited to be critic in resident in festivals in the world. He was one of the six art critics in the world who discussed the connection between arts festival and pandemic in Holland Festival (2020).
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Our
TEAM
Hiu Shan MO
Assistant to Director
Funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
“2024/25 Arts Talents Internship Matching Programme”
Mo Hiu-shan graduated with a major in Acting from the School of Drama, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2024. She is now an actress and illustrator.
During her school years , she participated in various productions, including Juliet and Romeo, The Ten Oxen of Ours and Ng Wong the Swordsman. She was awarded the "Performer of the Year" by IATC in 2023 and received the Academy’s Outstanding Actor Award and Outstanding Character Performance Award for her performance in Juliet and Romeo.
She was awarded the “HKAPA Scholarship" in the 2023-2024 academic year and received the “HKSAR Government Scholarships Fund - Scholarship for Outstanding Performance" in the 2019-2020 academic year.
In 2019, she launched her illustration brand, "aesthersm", which draws inspirations from the words "aesthete", "aesthetic" and "aesthesia". She aspires to use her paintbrush to portray the multifaceted emotions of bleak roses and challenging realities that exist beyond the confines of the tangible world.
Catherine Tsui
Project Coordinator
Funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
“2024/25 Arts Talents Internship Matching Programme”
Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Playwriting and received the Future Playwright Scholarship 2021/22.
She has participated in administrative work for several local theater companies, contributing to productions such as 100 Most x W Theatre "Big Resign Day", W Theatre "Hate You In A Second", "Laboratory of Lungg" and Spring-Time Experimental Theatre "Beware of Pickpockets“.
Her written works for the stage include Cultural Masseur Festival 2022 "Y.L.S.L. Self-rescuing Amusement Package", Playwright Studio 10 “It’s All Satyr’s Fault ” and musical "Beware of Pickpockets".
Additionally, she is keen to explore scriptwriting beyond theatre., contributing to the TV drama "Death Has Its Witnesses." Her short film "L’Etranger in Station" was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 15th Golden Sugarcane Film Festival in Taiwan.