Huayi Dialogues with Nick Yu: The City as a Stage

Nick Yu is a First-Class Playwright, Vice President of Shanghai Media Group Performing Arts, and Artistic Director of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Theatre Association. He is a Distinguished Expert of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, a Leading Talent in New-Era Stage Art Creation recognised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He holds a PhD in Arts, graduating from the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

His stage works include the plays Last Winter, WWW.COM, Next Door to Heaven Is a Madhouse, The Salty Taste of Cappuccino, Behind the Lies, Perfume, Activated Carbon, Floating Lives, Capital, Jane Eyre, 1977, The Piano in a Factory, A Cry for Life, Massage, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dream of the Red Chamber, The Boss, The Crowd, House Guests, The Awakening Age, Heroes and Daughters, The Great Way, The Unspeakable, and Meng Xiaodong, among others.

His musical works include Letters from the Flames of War and Fading Youth in Bloom; musical theatre work You Are My Solitude; large-scale symphonic theatre poems A Cry to Heaven and A Cry to Earth; acrobatic theatre productions Butterfly Lovers and Snow of the Tianshan Mountains; and the ballet Jane Eyre. 

More than a dozen of his works have been invited to international theatre festivals. His collected works have been published in Chinese, Japanese, English, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.