CO-Artistic Director

Vee Leong

 
 
 

Vee is writer-director in text-based and intermedia art making since 2010. Dedicated to the research and practice of contemporary form and politics of text-based theatre, she has also developed an interest in sound-based and durational performances, investigating socially charged topics and interdisciplinary dramaturgy in an independent spirit and from a feminist perspective. The critically-acclaimed Who Killed The Elephant (2012, 2021) was awarded Performance of the Year, Script/Playwright of the Year, and Scenography of the Year in the 2021 edition of IATC (HK) Critics Award. She was also Best Director in Hong Kong Theatre Libre (2015) for Martin Crimp’s The City. With other directorial titles of European new writing by Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp and Kevin Rittberger, Alice Birch, she has appeared in Hong Kong Arts Festival, New Vision Arts Festival, Taipei Arts Festival, Manchester International Festival and Spielart Festival, Munich in recent years. An active member in cross-cultural collaboration, she works closely with such artists as orleanlaiproject, No Discipline Ltd., Performosa Theatre, Against Again Troupe, Betty Chen, as well as On & On Theatre Workshop where she was Resident Director from 2013 to 2018. She teaches Dramaturgy at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

 
 
Photo: Anson Chan

Photo: Anson Chan