Haruka Ashida Ostley 芦田 悠

Haruka Ashida Ostley (芦田 悠) graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in painting. She moved to New York City shortly thereafter where she had intense training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. During her time there, she performed the lead in Lolita, Blanche DuBoise, in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Prudence in Beyond Therapy.  Her first New York debut outside of school was at Lincoln Center as a soprano singer / dancer in the Japanese Opera Haibo.  She continued exploring different media and acted in various short films and was also cast as a main female voice-over for an on going educational series production. 

Haruka moved to Hong Kong in the summer of 2006. Currently she works as an artist-in-residence at Yew Chung Education Foundation. There she directed several student performances and also wrote, filmed and directed a short film. Outside of her full time job, she also took a part in V-monologue 2007, made voice-overs for industrial commercials, and acted as Megumi in The Real Suzie and HKID with Red Room Productions. Since year 2007, she has been working with Burnt Mango Dance Theatre and performed in Concrete Jungle Berzerk!  For their latest production, (No)rwegian Wood, she played the female lead, Naoko.

Crystal Koo

Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo was born and bred in the Philippines, where she took a BA in English Literature in the University of the Philippines. After spending a year in Beijing studying Mandarin, she went to the University of New South Wales in Sydney for an MA in Creative Writing. She is currently lecturing in the School of Continuing Education of Hong Kong Baptist University.

Her short stories have been published in the quarterly magazine The Digest of Philippine Genres, the University of New South Wales’ annual creative writing journal rubric, and in the UK-based online short story collection East of the Web. She won the 2007 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines’ most prestigious literary award, for her short story “Benito Salazar’s Last Creation”, which was published in Salu-Salo: An Anthology of Philippines-Australian Writings in Sydney, 2008. Her recent short story “The Rooftops of Manila” will be published early this year in the annual anthology Philippine Speculative Fiction.

Hofan Chau ( 周可凡) studied at the London International School of Performing Arts & Jacques Lecoq School in Paris . She currently freelances as a director, performer and teacher in Hong Kong . In the past year, she has performed in The Overcoat with Theatre du Pif, Air & Breath II with Y-Space and << 我家有個大門神>> with 亞洲民眾戲劇節協會 & 藝術人家.

In 2003, Hofan received the Melvin B Troy Choreography Award for her dance solo about her near-death experience in a car-crash: Aftermath (with Cocoa ). Her other pieces, include Diamond Baby, which was performed in the XIV Contemporary Dance Festival 2004 in Poland, and Craig & Miriam, performed in London, as well as Burnt Mango's production in April this year, Concrete Jungle Berzerk!

Joshua Wolper

Amy Ka Man Tam, finished her 3 years full time training during 2005-2008 from The Theatre Training and Research Programme (TTRP) in Singapore. . She also graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) with a Bachelor ’s degree in Business Administration. In 2001, she co-founded the theatre company Facial Corner and produced various original theatre productions. She was the Marketing director of the theatre company. Subsequently in 2003, she co-founded the HKUST Drama Alumni Association.

Ka Man has been involved in over 40 theatre, dance and choir performances since 1995, both on stage and as part of the production team. She has a strong passion for acting and also appeared in TV drama, commercials and short films.

Ka Man has received the inaugural Hong Kong Drama Scholarship from the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies for her study in TTRP.

Since a very young age, Joshua was intrigued by the world of acting.. Thanks to supportive parents, he was given a lot of exposure to live theatre. After an experience that made him reassess ones mortality, he decided to pursue his passion and make it his life. After living the past decade in the United States, Joshua recently moved back to Hong Kong after studying at both the Actors Center of San Francisco and the Black Nexxus Studio in New York City. He has performed in various theatre and film productions, including the “Distant Frontiers” trailer project, an independent science fiction film produced by Sky Monkey Films. Joshua is working on several original scripts, and hopes to produce them within the next year.

Andrew Huang, 14 years old, is now studying at Chinese International School, and is very excited to be in this show. He has always had an interest in acting and performing, and starred in his first ever theatre production when he was 8. He has been an active member in Hong Kong's youth performance scene since 2007, when he was a dancer in YAF's 100% Red. He has recently starred in Red Room Production's HKID, FACE Production's Grease and Romeo & Juliet, and YAF's Arts in The Park.

Hin-yan is a freelance performer who uses music as a medium for conversation, and records sound for live performance. He enjoys using video and music for social action, and playing in non-conventional public spaces.

His musical work in the theatre includes On&On's , "The Doorgods of my Home" with Asian People Festival / Arthome, Kongtact Square's "Half and Half" and Burnt Mango's "(No)rwegian Wood" and "Concrete Jungle Berzerk!"

Other creative work includes the documentary 《好聲行》(2008) and 《Sound out Loud, Cross the Unjust Line》(2005). He also recieved an award "What Are You Gonna Do?" in the ifva 2002 short film & video festival (youth category).

Walter Leung 梁遠光

Olive Pang 彭善紋

Walter graduated from the HKUST as a computer science major in 1998. In 2001-03, he went to Singapore, and graduated as the pioneer class of the Theatre Training and Research Programme (TTRP). He was awarded the Hong Kong Drama Scholarship from HKADC, and the Georgette Chen TTRP Scholarship Fund.

Walter directed and performed in On & On Theatre's Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral. His acting credits include Ending the World (Hong Kong Arts Festival 2006); The Tree of Action Named K (On & On); No Significant Abnormality Detected (On & On); Tian Gong Kai Wu: A Practical Guide to Imaginary Inventions (HK Arts Festival 2007).

As a drama educator, Walter taught at the workshop of iD Generation – Cosmo X. He also directed and tutored Crossing for the IDEA conference. He is a founding member of the Local Centre for Performance Research, and works as a freelance theatre practitioner and a tai-chi instructor.

PC graduated from the CO1 school of visual arts with a diploma ingraphics and multimedia. He is currently freelancing.

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