LauZone – A multilingual HK-style cabaret

Anna Lo is a composer, arranger, singer, conductor, performer, a cappella artist and producer. She graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Berklee College of Music. Anna has written for and/or performed with Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Hong Kong Repertory Theatre; Chung Ying Theatre; Hong Kong Dance Company; City Contemporary Dance Company; Hong Kong String Orchestra; Actors’ Family; Theatre Ronin, etc. She was thrice nominated for her music at the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies Awards, in 2017 for Save the Next Song for Me, 2021 for In the Mood for Red, and 2023 for The Retransforman.

Anna was also thrice commissioned by Tai Kwun to create original cabaret works beginning with Tri Ka Tsai (2019), followed by LauZone (2021) and The Farewell Comeback Tour (2023). Tri Ka Tsai had two sold-out reruns, at WKCD in 2021 and at Singapore's Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts in 2023. LauZone was first adapted into a dance version Home Sweat Home by CCDC in 2021, followed by a sold-out rerun in 2022 at Tai Kwun and a feature at the HKUST Arts Festival in 2023. LauZone was also chosen as one of the International Showcases featured in 2024's inaugural HKPAX, and recently appeared at the 2025 OzAsia Festival in Adelaide.

In 2025, Anna's new rock musical, She, the Boxer premiered to enthusiastic crowds for Chung Ying Theatre's 45th Anniversary Season. Anna also works in other capacities in addition to composing and performing on stage, including taking part as arranger, orchestrator, music director, and recently being arranger and band leader for the runaway hit The Impossible Trial.

Anna is an avid a cappella artist and prolific a cappella arranger/composer. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Yat Po Singers and Music Director of pop a cappella group VSing. Her song The Little Things in Life from the eponymously named 2024 show was nominated for Best Serious Composition at the 22nd CASH Golden Sail Music Awards. VSing has performed in cities all around the world and represented Hong Kong in many a cappella and arts festivals. Since 2021, VSing’s original songs have received 11 nominations and 5 awards at The Contemporary A Cappella Society’s (CASA) A Cappella Video Awards and Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards. Their 2023 release Sel-fish won the Best Hip-Hop/R&B Video. Their 2024 release I Wanna Wanna also won Best Video by a Professional Group and Best Global Video as well as landed on the Metro Radio pop chart for 7 straight weeks and reached number 1.

Anna is currently Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s 2025-2026 Artist Associate and was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2025.

Rick Lau is a Hong Kong-Chinese Australian musical theatre singer-actor/cabaret artist of Chiuchow descent who grew up in Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate, Kowloon.

His favourite Chiuchow dishes are 卤水鸭 (Chiuchow Braised Duck) and 芋泥 (Sweet Yam Paste). An odd family tradition of his is to seek advice from Wong Tai Sin Temple’s fortune sticks on every decision, from starting a business to immigration and even relationships. Rick has never been to his hometown, but he remembers his family used to send money and clothes back to Chiuchow every Chinese New Year.

His favourite Chiuchow phrases are: Paa3 Saa3 Nia4 Si4 (说三道四 / Nonsense), Dam3 Baai2 Zi3 (白痴仔 / Idiot)

He graduated from NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia) in Musical Theatre. His main professional theatre credits in Australia include Miss Saigon (“Engineer” (1st understudy), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hair The Musical, Box & Quotations from Chairman Mao, The Popular Mechanicals, Empress of China, The River Skaters, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens and Naked Boys Singing etc.

In Hong Kong his credits include Freespace x HK Repertory’s The Impossible Trial, Yat Po Singers’ Our Immortal Cantata, Om Encounter, Save the Next Song for Me and Pica Pica Choose, Leon Ko’s The Originals, HK Sinfonietta’s The Passage Beyond in Concert and The Amazing Filmphony, City Contemporary Dance Company‘s Home Sweat Home, Actors Family’s Cinematic Memories on Train No.5, The Good Person of Szechwan, Chung Ying Theatre’s A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and The Underpants, HK City Chamber Orchestra’s Bug Symphony, HK Arts Festival’s June Lovers, 3AMI’s Smokey Joe’s Cafe and The Pajama Game, and HK Ballet’s Cinderella, Swan Lake, Carnival of the Animals and Sleeping Beauty.

Rick has produced, co-written and performed in 12 cabaret shows: LauZone (nominated for Best Actor at the 2022 HK Theatre Libre Awards), Tri Ka Tsai, The Farewell Comeback Tour, Rick Lau’s Lonely Hearts Club Hour, My Queer Valentine, When Rick Met Marsha…, The 3 Singing Bitches, My Generation, Men In Love, SunRice, I know where I'm going... I think, and How Now Rick Lau (commissioned by the Sydney Opera House) in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and West End London.

Rick was recently the singing voice for the lead villain King Magnifico in the 2023 Disney animated film Wish (HK version).