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. Artistic Director of Reframe Theatre. House Author of Germany Nationatheater Mannheim (2021-2022). Former Acting Principal of HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Lecturer of Drama School of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and 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 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. His play in Cantonese White Blaze of the morning is awarded Best Play, 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:
Germany: Munich Biennale - New Music Festival, Mannheimer Sommer Festival, Munich Residenztheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Stadttheater Giessen, Theater Freiburg, Staatsschauspiel Saarbrücken, Lubeck Theater, Freies Werkstatt Theater;
Austria: Landestheater Linz, Schauspielhaus Graz;
France: Comédie Française, Theatre du Brianconnais, Theatre Antoine Vitez in Aix en Provence, Mousson d'été Festival;
Canada: Motreal CINARS Biennale Official Programme;
Sweden: Swedish Radio;
Finland: Nordic Drama Corner;
South Korea: South Korea Asia Playwright Festival, Seoul Performing Arts Festival;
Taiwan: Quanta Arts Foundation;
Beijing: Goethe Institute;
Hong Kong: Hong Kong New Vision Festival, International Arts Carnival, Tai Kwun, Fringe Club, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and On & On Theatre Workshop, etc.
Suhrkamp Theater Verlag represents the copyright of some of his plays.
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).