Zoetrope (Short Videos)

Founded in 2011, O Theatre Workshop is a Hong Kong-based international theatre company. It strives to create high-quality theatre works and promote drama and performing arts. Its creator is the versatile theatre extraordinaire Olivia Yan, who is a leading dramaturg, director, actress, educator and writer all in one. Yan is a multi-faceted person. She can be at times powerful like fire, and other times gentle like water. She has a keen eye for aesthetics and a sharp sensitivity for life. Her works are wittily poetic, rooted in love and concern, and always reaching out to touch people’s souls.

The company is named ‘O’ with its unique artistic vision: “O” is exclamation, is surprise, like life, like theatre, and represents Yan’s artistic pursuit. “O” is a circle, like the infinite extension of the universe, symbolising the impact of theatre. “O” is like the full moon, representing union, signifying the desire to connect souls with love and concern.

Lam is a multi-faceted and well-respected actress, artist, curator, and the ambassador of the French May Arts Festival. She is a mother of two, also the first to have won the Golden Horse Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer. Besides acting, she is also passionate about photography and pottery. Her love for the arts has seamlessly transcended through her life, both work and leisure. In 2020, she was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in recognition of her efforts in promoting French arts.

Widely influenced by different elements such as folk, alternative rock, contemporary classical and modern music, contemporary composer Cong is known for his darkly evocative musical style. He is the co-creator of the music label Raven & The Sea, and one of the music directors of Freespace Ensemble. He was commissioned by Hong Kong Ballet and Shanghai Grand Opera House in 2018 and 2019, and was the co-music director of the musical drama All My Life I Shall Remember (2019) by Chung Ying Theatre Company. Recently, he composed music for Beijing director Tien Zhuangzhuang’s film. In 2021, he participated in In Sync: Music in Motion that inspired his performance The Interpretation of Milou’s Dream and his subsequent sold-out concert I am afraid of. Cong further created the art show birth of an Idea in 2021 and sound installation A Prelude for the Future in 2022, presented by K11 Art Foundation.

Graduated with Distinction at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Chak has developed a diversified portfolio spanning scriptwriting, directing, acting, and drama coaching. He was a full-time devising performer in PIP Theatre from 2006 to 2013, and later a familiar face in a wide range of television and film productions.

His appearances in well-received productions include: MircoSex Office series (2009 to 2012), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2008), Wild Boar (2012) and Good Luck Man (2013). In 2007, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Comedy/Farce) for Of Wills & Willpower at Hong Kong Drama Awards. In 2019, he was invited by MGM Theatre, Macao to perform in the Argentina’s show Fuerza Bruta Wayra.

A Chinese opera creator specialises in scriptwriting and music composition. Kong also performs and plays several musical instruments. In 2021, he founded the Cantonese opera original YouTube channel Aphros to promote Cantonese opera.

Kong began his all-round traditional Chinese opera training from the age of nine. He studied with Jiang Yanhong and Han Yanming before enrolling in the Cantonese Opera Academy of Hong Kong and Shanghai Theatre Academy. In 2018, he graduated from the School of Chinese Opera of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2012, Kong won the Young Artist (Xiqu)  at Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. In theatre, he studied scriptwriting with Raymond To, and Chinese and western dramaturgy with Fredric Mao, Danny Yung and Ho Ying-fung.

His works include: Cantonese opera Moving House, premiere and rerun (2017); reboot of Pavilion of a Hundred Flowers, Hong Kong Arts Festival premiere (2018) and rerun tour (2019); contemporary Cantonese opera Journey to the West Rewind (2020 to 2021) commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival; and original naamyam piece Gone with the Chocolate (2022).

Li is the 2nd runner-up of ViuTV’s talent show King Maker II.

He studied Fashion and Textiles at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Later, he entered the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts on a full scholarship and graduated with a BFA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance, minoring in Choreography and Dance Education. He also studied Marketing and Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University as an exchange student. 

He began his gymnastic training from the age of three, and joined Hong Kong Acrobatics Gymnastics Team when he was 14. At the age of 18, he started to explore different dance styles, and such performing arts as singing and figure skating.