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Known for
  
Theatre

Role
  
Director

Name
  
Wang Chong

Website
  
www.theatrere.com

Awards
  
Festival/Tokyo Award


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Born
  
January 8, 1982 (age 42) (
1982-01-08
)
Beijing, China

Wang Chong (王翀; born 8 January 1982) is an avant-garde theatre director and award-winning translator. His works have been performed in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, U.S., Canada, U.K., the Netherlands and France, gaining both popular and critical acclaim. Wang has become the leading force of Chinese experimental theatre for his explorations in multimedia performance and documentary theatre.

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Life

Wang graduated from Peking University with a degree in law and economics. Since then, he has studied theatre in China and the U.S., working with influential directors Lin Zhaohua and Robert Wilson.

In 2008, Wang Chong founded Théatre du Rêve Expérimental (薪传实验剧团), a Beijing-based performance group. It soon became one of the most active touring companies in China. His works include The Warfare of Landmine 2.0, winning 2013 Festival/Tokyo Award, Thunderstorm 2.0, listed by The Beijing News as one of the best 10 little theatre works in China during the last 30 years, and Ibsen in One Take, noted by Literary Life Weekly as one of the top 10 performances of 2012 in China.

Translations

Plays:

  • Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller
  • Crave by Sarah Kane
  • The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey
  • Constellations by Nick Payne
  • The Heretic by Richard Bean
  • Electronic City by Falk Richter
  • The Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig
  • Miss Julie by Katie Mitchell after August Strindberg and Inger Christensen
  • Father's Braid by Amnon Levy and Rami Danon
  • Ibsen in One Take by Oda Fiskum (co-translation)
  • Tokyo Notes by Hirata Oriza (co-translation)
  • The Bedbug by Meng Jinghui (from Chinese into English)

    • Other:

  • The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers by Christopher Vogler
  • "Theatre at Its Age of Acceleration" by Thomas Ostermeier

    • Awards and honors

  • Festival/Tokyo Award, 2013
  • Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 2013
  • Experimental Artist of the Year, The Beijing News, 2012
  • Jury Award, Asian Theatre Directors’ Festival, 2012
  • Nomination for Best Production (e-Station), Mont-Laurier International Theatre Festival, 2009
  • Han Suyin Award for Young Translators, Translators Association of China, 2007

    • References

    Wang Chong (director) Wikipedia
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